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Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.

Joined: 12/29/2023
Articles: 145

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Reuters – Tesla must face California’s false-marketing claims concerning Autopilot

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06/10/24
Rev 06/11/24

Reuters reports that has ruled that the California Department of Motor Vehicles should indeed investigate whether Tesla has overstated its vehicles' self-driving capabilities. It is a separate ruling from the recent May 15th one on whether a class-action lawsuit against Tesla's claims can proceed.

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Electrek – Zoox is expanding autonomous robotaxi rides to new US cities

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06/7/24
Rev 06/8/24

Electrek reports that Zoox is still trying to provide robotaxi service. Limited testing will now occur in Miami and Austin. But this just a baby step forward, first with just mapping streets using a Toyota Highlander. They are still far away from providing passenger service. In fact, they are so far away they put out pathetic press releases like this one.

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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.