Collaborate Disseminate
A bipartisan group of senators is calling out the auto industry for its “hypocritical, profit-driven” opposition to national right-to-repair legislation, while also selling customer data to insurance companies and other third-party interests. From a re… Continue reading Senators Rip Into Automakers For Selling Customer Data and Blocking Right To Repair
A study by reinsurer Swiss Re found that Waymo’s autonomous vehicles have demonstrated significantly fewer property damage and bodily injury claims compared to human-driven cars, with reductions of up to 92% in some metrics. Engadget reports: Swiss Re … Continue reading Waymo’s Driverless Cars Are Apparently an Insurance Company’s Dream
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver with the caption: “As someone that uses back seats to carry some luggage, I am not a fan of this requirement.” From the report: Previously, federal standards governing seatbelt warnings… Continue reading NHTSA Will Require Audible Seatbelt Reminders For Everyone In the Car
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The UK’s first driverless bus service, originally heralded as a breakthrough of global significance, is being withdrawn from service because too few passengers used it. The autonomous buses, operat… Continue reading Driverless Bus Service In Scotland To Be Withdrawn Due To Lack of Interest
Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan are reportedly in merger talks to form a holding company, potentially integrating Mitsubishi Motors to compete with industry giants like Toyota and Volkswagen. CNBC reports: The combined Nissan-Honda-Mitsubishi ente… Continue reading Japan’s Honda and Nissan To Reportedly Begin Merger Talks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Uber has 30 days to require certain drivers to get fingerprinted if the ride-hail giant intends to continue transporting unaccompanied teens in California. The California Public Utilities Commission … Continue reading Uber Will Need To Fingerprint Drivers In California To Transport Teens
Saturday night two men were arrested near Boston “following a hazardous drone operation near Logan Airport’s airspace,” according to a police statement. They credit an officer “leveraging advanced UAS monitoring technology” who “identified the drone’s … Continue reading Two Drone Pilots Arrested Near Boston, and Drones Cause One-Hour Runway Closure at North New York Airport
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge:
Waymo’s driverless vehicles can detect emergency vehicles, know how to respond to hand signals for traffic cops, and can be disabled manually when something goes wrong, according to an independent… Continue reading Waymo Robotaxis Pass Emergency Vehicle Review. But One Got Stuck in a Roundabout
“Proposals for a tunnel connecting the U.K. to the U.S. underneath the Atlantic Ocean have resurfaced,” reports Newsweek, “but with a price tag of almost $20 trillion, the project is a big ask.”
With the two global cities being over 3,000 miles apar… Continue reading Could an Undersea Hyperloop Train Tunnel Offer One-Hour Trips From London to New York?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: The United States Postal Service unveiled a plan to buy a fleet of all-electric mail trucks for its mail carriers back in 2022, of which 3,000 were supposed to be delivered by now. Unfortunately, those… Continue reading Postal Service’s Plan To Electrify Mail Trucks Falling Far Short of Its Goal