News Republisher

Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.

Joined: 12/29/2023
Articles: 259

News, Safety

Interesting Engineering – Driverless cars to evolve traffic lights, white signal could be added

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06/7/24
Rev 06/13/24

Interesting Engineering reports on how some researchers are proposing adding a fourth light to traffic signals to help facilitate traffic. Note how this idea does not take into account that there are pedestrians out there.

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CNBC – Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI

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06/4/24
Rev 06/11/24

CNBC reports that once again Elon Musk has lied to Tesla shareholders. He boasted that Tesla would be making a huge investment into AI in order to power their supposed robotaxi system. But it turns out that he has been directing the scarce supply of Nvidia AI chips from Tesla to xAI, a separate company that Musk has a huge financial stake in.

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Fortune – Elon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low

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06/3/24

Fortune reports that Elon Musk is now facing a lawsuit alleging that he misled investors with fake "epic end of year" sales info while dumping billions of dollars of stock using insider information. This is of course similar to Musk recently propping up stock price with fake robotaxi claims.

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NY Times – The Very Slow Restart of G.M.’s Cruise Driverless Car Business

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05/30/24

NY Times article on the difficulties Cruise is facing to restarting commercial robotaxi service. Given their many problems described in the article one has to assume that GM will dump Cruise sooner rather than later.

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Fortune – How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business

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05/29/24

Fortune reports on how difficult the robotaxi business is, and how Waymo has outlasted the other companies. But somehow Fortune is impressed with Waymo serving 50,000 rides/week. At $20/ride this is only about $50 million a year, a pittance compared to the billion dollars+ that they are spending.

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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) – On vehicle automation, federal regulators have some catching up to do

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05/29/24
Rev 06/4/24

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reports that the federal regulation of vehicle automation is currently completely inadequate. Six US senators have called attention to how the NHTSA needs to change their hands off approach to autonomous vehicles.