Elon Musk shared this picture of the Boring Company’s tunnel under Los Angeles.
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Chainless 4-wheeled hybrid electric bike concept is “self-charging”
The Hybrid Module Mobility concept isn’t pedaled directly, but instead employs a pedal-powered alternator for riders to partially recharge its batteries.
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Using only Uber or Lyft is cheaper than owning a car for 25% of Americans — here’s how to know if you apply
Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft free up millions of Americans from having to own a car to get around. An analysis of the all-in costs of car ownership show that ridesharing alone could be more cost-effective in the long run.
The future will most likely be a mix of both ridesharing and ownership, since people still derive great value from having their own car.
LeBron James will star in the first big ad push for self-driving cars
LeBron James will star in an Intelcommercial showing off the company’s self-driving-car technology, marking the first big ad push for driverless vehicles.
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VC activity revs up as electric vehicles prepare to go mainstream
Recent weeks have seen an acceleration—pardon the pun—of news and developments related to electric vehicles.
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Dubai just tested its flying drone taxi for the first time
Autonomous air taxi service Volocopter just had its first test flight in Dubai.
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Diesel engine manufacturer Cummins goes electric with new truck ahead of Tesla Semi unveil
While electric truck enthusiasts are anticipating the unveiling of Tesla’s all-electric truck next month, diesel engine manufacturer Cummins beat the electric car manufacturer to the punch by unveiling its own electric truck effort today.
Meet the futuristic personal transportation vehicle coming to China and U.S. soon
Leo Liu still remembers the first time he saw a “personal transportation” machine.
“I was an industrial engineering student at University of Florida, and I saw a group of people ride around campus standing completely upright on giant wheels,” he recalls. “They were Segways. I thought to myself, ‘those are very cool, but they’re a bit bulky and unwieldy.”
Finnish Tesla Model S taxi driver crosses 400,000 km, 93% of battery life remains
Ari Nyyssönen, a Finnish taxi driver, has racked up an impressive 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) in his Tesla Model S and is confident that the car could last until 1 million kilometers or over 621,000 miles.
Harley Davidson’s first electric bike
Remember this iconic motorcycle? It was used by Scarlett Johansson aka The Black Widow in an engaging chase sequence in the 2015 movie, ‘Avengers: TNNhe age of Ultron’. Bike lovers were particularly awed by the jet-turbine like sound from the bike as Black Widow skillfully maneuvered it through approximately ten cars at high speed, chasing Ultron’s mercenaries at its best speed.
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Hackers are the real obstacles for self driving vehicles
Out-of-work truckers armed with “adversarial machine learning” could dazzle autonomous vehicles into crashing.
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Driverless cars and trucks don’t mean mass unemployment—they mean new kinds of jobs
As business leaders who work with scores of senior leaders across the private and public sectors, the topic of automation and its implications for workers is inescapable—and often anxiety-inducing. Understandably so. Technology and social changes are poised to reshape nearly every aspect of what and how work gets done, and by whom. When we speak and write on this topic, the audience response is usually intense and ranges from excitement to deep anxiety.
