Google paid a star self-driving engineer $120 million. Then he quit, joined a...
Summary List PlacementOn January 7, 2016, Anthony Levandowski emailed Larry Page to wish him a happy new year and to pitch him on a new approach to the search giant's self-driving-car research...
View ArticleGoogle's founders created a wild bonus structure for engineers to incentivize...
Summary List PlacementIn 2011, Google had a problem. Two years earlier, it had hired a team of about a dozen engineers to create a self-driving car. The team members of what was then called Project...
View ArticleInsider Transportation: Uber's plan to stop losing money, auto stocks to bet...
Summary List PlacementEver since Uber burst onto the global stage a few years ago led by the brash Travis Kalanick, scrapping with regulators the world over and winning over legions of fans, one little...
View ArticleGM jumps 9% to record high after Microsoft announces investment in the...
Summary List PlacementGeneral Motors gained as much as 8.9% to a record high on Tuesday amid news that its autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Cruise, is receiving a large investment from...
View ArticleElon Musk hits back at Waymo's CEO after he said Tesla was 'no competitor at...
Summary List PlacementElon Musk hit back at claims from Waymo CEO John Krafcik that Tesla is not a viable competitor in the autonomous-vehicle market.Musk called Waymo, which began as a Google project,...
View ArticleElon Musk says self-driving Tesla robotaxis can help justify the company's...
Summary List PlacementTesla has a massive market cap of more than $800 billion, making it the fifth-most valuable company in the S&P 500. And robotaxis can be part of the "roadmap" to help justify...
View ArticleOne of Uber's earliest investors says the billions it spent on self-driving...
Summary List PlacementUber's food-delivery business has been a massive boon for the company as the pandemic sent ride-hailing revenues down the tubes and takeout orders through the roof.One early...
View ArticleElon Musk is an entrepreneur, and Tim Cook isn't — and that's why the...
Summary List PlacementCreating a brand in the auto industry isn't complicated. First, you build a car. Then, you sell the car. Then you build and sell some more cars. If you're lucky, the car is the...
View ArticleToyota just started building a 175-acre smart city at the base of Mount Fuji...
Summary List PlacementToyota Motor Corporation started construction this week on a 175-acre smart city at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji, about 62 miles from Tokyo, the company announced Tuesday.The...
View ArticleTesla says 'full self-driving' beta software will never be fully autonomous,...
Summary List PlacementFrom launching a fleet of robotaxis to navigating a cross-country road trip without human intervention, Tesla boss Elon Musk has been touting ambitious plans to roll out...
View ArticleVideos continue to show the risks of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' tech — even...
Summary List PlacementWhen Tesla beamed out a prototype version of its "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) technology to select Tesla owners in October, videos of the driver-assistance system fumbling normal...
View ArticleCruise's head of artificial intelligence wants the autonomous-car startup to...
Summary List PlacementFor autonomous vehicle startup Cruise, the future isn't just about artificial intelligence. It's about machine learning, and that's why Cruise is teaching its electric vehicles to...
View ArticleWalmart is investing in Cruise, GM's self-driving car company
Summary List PlacementWalmart is investing in San Francisco-based Cruise, the General Motors-backed self-driving car startup. The companies announced on Thursday that Walmart will participate in a...
View ArticleTesla's top lawyer has left Elon Musk's company for a 26-year-old...
Summary List PlacementTesla's top lawyer, Alan Prescott, left the electric-car company to join Luminar Technologies, a startup that develops laser sensors for self-driving cars, Luminar announced...
View ArticleElon Musk says a Tesla on Autopilot is 10 times less likely to crash than the...
Summary List PlacementAs Elon Musk and local authorities spar over whether Tesla's Autopilot software was to blame in a fiery Model S crash that killed two people on April 17, one thing is clear:...
View ArticleThe man arrested after repeatedly misusing Tesla's Autopilot is a notorious...
Summary List PlacementThe 25-year-old man arrested after riding in the back seat of a Tesla Model 3 while it semiautonomously drove on the highway is a notorious Instagram wealth troll.Param Sharma...
View ArticleTesla is reportedly testing lidar sensors, which Elon Musk dismissed as...
Summary List PlacementTesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly derided the use of lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles. Now his carmaker is reportedly testing out the technology. Tesla has inked a contract...
View ArticleThe AI superstar once hired to rehab Uber's cratering self-driving program is...
Summary List PlacementWhen Raquel Urtasun joined Uber in May 2017, she walked into a battleground. Urtasun, a leading artificial intelligence researcher who was (and remains) a professor at the...
View ArticleChina crackdown leads self-driving tech startup Pony.ai to put off plans to...
Summary List PlacementPony.ai, a Chinese self-driving technology startup, is holding off on plans to go public in the US after it was unable to secure Beijing's assurance that it wouldn't be a target...
View ArticleNio tumbles 7% on reports of a fatal accident involving one of its...
Summary List PlacementElectric vehicle maker Nio tumbled as much as 7% on Monday on news that its autopilot system was involved in a fatal crash in China.The stock fell as low as $38.07 from Friday's...
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