The Nio ET7 has been confirmed to feature an advanced, 23-speaker sound system developed by Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac. The system used in the Nio ET7 features the Dirac Opteo Professional sound optimization solution. Ordinarily, a car’s cabin is considered a very challenging acoustic environment as speakers cannot be positioned as optimally as they […]
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The NHTSA is warning those who use real kids or people in general for their own safety testing demonstrations. The reaction comes after a bevy of private individuals began posting similar tests online. Those videos were mostly in response to a political ad that seemed to falsely accuse Tesla’s FSD software of being more dangerous […]
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The Toyota Research Institute announced that it will be partnering with Northwestern University to use the world’s first data factory with the goal of making vehicles greener and more efficient. The data factory is a machine learning algorithm that is capable of synthesizing materials at record speeds. The team will use it to look through […]
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Porsche is leaving no stone unturned as it looks ahead to an era of cleaner mobility. Already working on EVs and e-fuels, the brand said today that its engineering department has also looked at converting one of its V8 engines to hydrogen. The company has “developed a hydrogen combustion engine that aims to match the […]
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Uber announced that it has partnered with Office Depot in order to deliver office and school supplies to buyers directly. Starting on August 15, customers will be able to select from over 900 Office Depot and OfficeMax locations across America and have supplies delivered to their door through the Uber Eats app. “We know this […]
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Lamborghini is hopeful that it can extend the life of its internal combustion engines through the use of advanced synthetic fuels. While the Volkswagen Group as a whole is diving head-first into electrification, Porsche is already manufacturing synthetic fuels with Siemens Energy and during a recent interview with Drive, Lamborghini said it is going down […]
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Ride hail company Lyft and Hyundai’s mobility subsidiary, Motional, announced today that people in Las Vegas will now be able to embark on driverless rides throughout the city. The rides will be delivered in a version of the Ioniq 5 designed specifically for autonomous driving. The Level 4 autonomous vehicle will, at first, have two […]
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Head-up display technology allows drivers to keep looking through the windshield while still monitoring their speed, navigation intersections and other important data. But Ford’s latest version of HUD technology doesn’t project crucial info like road signs onto the stretch of glass in front of the driver, but onto the road stretching ahead of them. Ford […]
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As technology continues to improve at a faster and faster pace we’re sometimes left in awe of what it can do. At the same time, many of the companies are actively looking to monetize it in any way that they can. One of the ways they do that is by leveraging the data collected and […]
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Hyundai Motor Group today announced that it will invest $400 million to create a new institute whose goal will be to make fundamental advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and intelligent machines. Set to be led by Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, the institute will be headquartered in the heart of the Kendall Square […]
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The Genesis GV60 isn’t just the first ground-up EV from the South Korean automaker but it also brings with it a host of innovative technologies and intriguing pieces of design. This is no more evident than with the Crystal Sphere gear selector. The Crystal Sphere was first featured on the Genesis X concept car and […]
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Waymo is taking advantage of its participation in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s recent Inclusive Design Challenge to implement four new features intended to make its robotaxis more accessible to more customers. To start, the dome on top of Waymo‘s autonomous taxis will now be used to display the initials of the rider they are […]
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General Motors has made its $1,500 OnStar subscription service mandatory on all Buick and GMC models. As of early June, all Buick and GMC models sold in the United States have been equipped with the three-year OnStar and Connected Services Premium Plan as standard. The $1,500 system has been included in the manufacturer’s suggested retail […]
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Baidu has received the green light to begin testing fully-autonomous taxis in two major Chinese cities, a first for a company in China. The technology giant received regulatory approvals to operate its Apollo Go autonomous ride-hailing service in Chongqing and central Wuhan. The services will initially be quite limited with just five robotaxis operating in […]
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TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd., has acquired one of China’s largest private hospital chains—Amcare Healthcare—for roughly $1.5 billion, Bloomberg reported. This deal marks one of the biggest purchases made since Beijing’s anti-monopoly crackdown on tech companies started in late 2020. Advertisement ByteDance Ltd. now has full ownership of women’s and children’s hospitals in cities from […]
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Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, says its electric vehicle firm Jida Auto is going to be one step ahead of Tesla in the development of advanced autonomous driving technologies. Soon after Baidu unveiled its new Apollo RT6 minivan, Baidu chief executive Robin Li said that the carmaker is coming after Tesla. “Our understanding of […]
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Tesla is in hot water again and this time it’s the brand’s former home state of California that’s on the offensive. More specifically, Tesla has been accused of false advertising by the Californian DMV concerning the automaker’s promotion of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technologies. Tesla has long been the subject of controversy over the […]
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Jaguar Land Rover today announced that it has opened its Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) laboratory in Gaydon, U.K. The lab will ensure that its vehicles meet current and future quality standards and legislation for connectivity features and electronics. “The importance of testing our vehicles for electromagnetic compatibility cannot be underestimated,” said Peter Philips, the senior manager […]
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Megacorporation Amazon has expanded its empire of data capturing devices by spending $1.7 billion purchasing beloved maker of vacuuming robots and former beloved maker of warzone robots iRobot, which makes Roombas. In addition to tidying up, Roombas are also great at mapping the interior of your home and creating marketable data for its parent company. […]
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In June, GM announced that the autonomous technology company in which it is a majority stakeholder, Cruise, would be the first to be permitted to charge passengers for robotaxi rides in America. The announcement came just as federal regulators announced that they would be taking a deeper look at advanced driver assistance technologies, and was […]
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We have seen plenty of footage showing cars with autonomous tech testing on public roads but the latest video from DeepRoute.ai is quite impressive, highlighting the sophisticated nature of the production-ready Level 4 capable Driver 2.0 system. The driverless prototype was tested in the city of Shenzhen in China under heavy traffic conditions, showing how […]
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Electric vehicle startup Xpeng has partnered with the e-commerce giant Alibaba to open an advanced computing center in northern China to develop software for driverless vehicles. The largest intelligent computing center in the country, it is planned to be capable of computing speeds of up to 600 petaflops allowing it to run simulation tests 170 […]
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BMW is embarking on a journey towards large-scale electrification despite its boss having reservations about the complete abandonment of ICE vehicles. After a successful first half of the year, the brand has announced that its first vehicle on the Neue Klasse platform will in fact be a sedan, not a crossover and that a sporty […]
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General Motors announced today that it will expand its advanced driver-assistance system’s range by 100 percent with the addition of new roads to the Super Cruise network in the United States and Canada. The automaker says it will add hundreds of thousands of miles of road on which Super Cruise can be used. That will […]
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Nio will open its first European factory in September and while it won’t be producing cars, it will play an important role in the company’s ongoing expansion. The Nio Power Europe Plant is located in Pest, Hungary, and will be approximately 10,000 square meters in size. It will be responsible for manufacturing and the after-sales […]
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More than 700,000 people were tracking the flight path of the U.S. military plane believed to be carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this morning. She touched down in Taiwan at 10:50 pm local time, making Pelosi the first high-ranking American official to visit the self-governing island in 25 years, amid threats of a military response […]
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Driver-monitoring systems that detect whether a driver is distracted or has fallen asleep at the wheel have become a key part of a modern car’s tech armory in the battle to reduce road deaths and injuries. But drivers in China are discovering that the DMS hardware on their cars struggles to read Asian faces. While […]
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Chinese technology giant Xiaomi is facing issues in making progress with its $10 billion automotive venture. Reports claim that Xiaomi has been speaking with officials from the National Development and Reform Commission in China but is facing difficulties in getting regulatory approval for its car project. Speaking with Bloomberg, a source with knowledge of the […]
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