Quantum Startups’ Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering
[ad_1] At the end of September, Rigetti reported $212 million in assets and a net loss of $49 million for the year to date. The SPAC deal was originally expected to net $458…
BMW’s I Vision Dee Concept Car Changes Colors in Seconds
[ad_1] BMW thinks there is “huge potential” for such screen projection technology, far beyond the compact head-up displays drivers have become used to over the past two decades. It would…
Road Robots Are Coming to the Rescue
[ad_1] Developing cars that can drive without a human is a unique challenge. There are many kinds of events that fully autonomous vehicles have to be prepared to handle in…
Robo Truckers and the AI-Fueled Future of Transport
[ad_1] While adaptive cruise control might seem very different from a fully autonomous vehicle—and it is, technologically—the two technologies reside on the same spectrum. And in even the most advanced…
Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats
[ad_1] Amid rising concerns about China’s growing international data collection apparatus, a newly divided US Congress is applying fresh scrutiny to the possibility that imported Chinese technology could be a…
Lyft Aspired to Kill Car Ownership. Now It Aims to Profit From It
[ad_1] Lyft customers know it as the bright-pink app to tap when they need a car ride or to rent a bike or scooter. Today the company announced it wants…
Elon Musk Is Overloaded | WIRED
[ad_1] Neuralink, which works on brain implants for controlling a computer, was also founded in 2016. Musk has previously said he planned to have regulatory approval for the brain chips…
Ford Abandons the Self-Driving Road to Nowhere
[ad_1] Self-driving car developer Argo AI suddenly announced that it was closing its doors this week. Some of its 1,800-odd employees, already reduced by summer layoffs, are to be offered…
Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step
[ad_1] Some robot experts watching saw a project that appeared to be quickly getting up to speed. “There’s nothing fundamentally groundbreaking, but they are doing cool stuff,” says Stefanie Tellex,…
GM’s Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash
[ad_1] Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said on Thursday that the General Motors subsidiary had recalled software deployed on 80 vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco…
GM President Mark Reuss on the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
[ad_1] It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast. US companies are under pressure to do that without…