In a recent interview with Kara Swisher on her show Sway, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, shared his thoughts about a number of different things, including Elon Musk and Tesla. He hinted at a widely anticipated Apple Car, saying, “We’ll see what Apple does.” The interview also touched upon his thoughts on … [continued]
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan sits down with Rob Grant, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Social Impact at Cruise, to talk about Cruise’s work in the autonomous vehicle space. You can listen to the full conversation in the embedded … [continued]
Nash, also known as “Tesla in the Gong,” shared a video yesterday on his YouTube channel about his experience testing Tesla’s Autopilot on a dangerous mountain road. Nash wanted to see how many times he would have to disengage Autopilot while driving on the Macquarie Pass. The Macquarie Pass is … [continued]
HyperChange’s Gali Russell (aka @GFilche on Twitter) released a video on why he thinks Tesla will be the world’s biggest company. Just last month, Elon Musk tweeted that there was a >0% chance that Tesla could become the biggest company, as an obvious joke. While that seemed to just be … [continued]
The longtime CEO of Waymo, John Krafcik, has been leading what many consider to be the leading autonomous driving company since 2015 — 6 years. Though, the news is that Krafcik and/or higher-ups at Alphabet decided it was time for him to find a new passion. He is stepping down … [continued]
I got a few requests from my last post to do a deeper dive into ARK’s Tesla bear case after providing my thoughts on its bull case. Breakdown of the Model’s Assumptions One of our readers, Pitounet, pointed out that ARK has hosted its model on Git. This has a … [continued]
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I covered the problem of autonomous vehicle theft. No, the vehicles are not theft proof, and yes, there’s plenty of motivation to steal them. They may even be easier to steal than other vehicles because thieves have an opportunity to set traps. Hardening … [continued]
A recent Twitter conversation got me to thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know) about the security of autonomous vehicles, especially unattended “robotaxi” type vehicles. an autonomous car can’t be stolen @elonmusk — Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) March 28, 2021 My friend Omar was saying they can’t be stolen, and a … [continued]
You’ve got a technology that helps drivers not leave their lanes accidentally, not run into cars in front of them, not run through red lights, not fall asleep driving, and change lanes carefully (with 10 eyes on the roads around you) — yet there’s a whole army of critics calling … [continued]
Last month, Torc Robotics, a company developing autonomous trucks, decided to go with Amazon for its cloud computing needs. When I first saw the headline, I wasn’t sure why it would need cloud computing, but it turns out that it is generating a lot of data that needs to be … [continued]
