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Chinese electronics giant LeEco is backing U.S. electric car startup Faraday Future, but it also has an electric car project of its own going on.

Waymo, the self - driving car project of Google, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Uber that alleges one of its former employees stole the proprietary design of Waymo's self - driving car system.

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

«Like, let's say they live in Ohio, but they're an automotive executive, and they're not going to move their whole family [to work for FF],» says one of them, who worked on the car projects of both LeEco and Faraday Future.

Not exact matches

Tesla, which has projected it will sell 55,000 vehicles globally in 2015, will need to sell upwards of 1,500 cars to Chinese consumers each month if it hopes to hit its target, said Karl Brauer, senior analyst with Kelley Blue Blue.

That's on top of already announced projects like a fleet of self - driving cars.

«Ontario's No. 1 industry is the manufacturing of cars and car parts,» says Peter Purslow, the associate dean of research and innovation at the University of Guelph's Agricultural College, one of the institutions involved with the project.

Started in 2005 as a school project by University of Waterloo engineering students, Miovision's main product is Scout, a camera system that counts cars at intersections.

Tesla said Wednesday evening it's on track to produce 5,000 Model 3s per week by the end of its second quarter, a twice - delayed goal that the electric car company had originally projected for the end of 2017.

Ninety - three of the smart city projects are focused on transportation, according to SCMP, and could potentially use its connected infrastructure to build the number of driverless cars and shared - driving models on the road.

In addition to driverless cars, increased usage of ride - sharing and ride - hailing services are projected to generate $ 1 trillion in revenue for suppliers globally by 2040, latest industry figures indicate, according to SCMP.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The director of Google's self - driving car project wrote in a blog post Monday that development of the technology has entered a new stage: trying to master driving on city streets.

Having followed the nearly inconsequential progress of the mysterious Project Titan, I'm ready to say that if you insist on thinking Apple will be selling an actual car by the next decade, you're going to be disappointed.

They add that Project Titan has been «re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with existing carmakers, or return to designing its own vehicle in the future» and that «executives have given the car team a deadline of late next year to prove the feasibility of the self - driving system and decide on a final direction.»

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Alex Webb, Apple «has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project.»

In collaboration with nine international industrial partners, which include Greece - based INASCO, Belgium's Nanocyl and Chinese - owned Volvo Cars, the research team is in the midst of a three - year, $ 5 - million materials - development project.

Questions have been raised about the outlook for the FF91, given LeEco's spiraling cash problems as well as its decision to pull out of a joint project with British sports carmaker Aston Martin to develop RapidE electric car.

Notable moonshot projects include Project Loon, which wants to provide internet connectivity to remote areas of the world using balloons, and Waymo, Google's self - driving car company.

The journey to a law in California began in January 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Nevada legislator - turned - lobbyist David Goldwater began chatting up Anthony Levandowski, one of the self - driving car project's leaders.

Though it started as a secret project within Google in 2009, the self - driving car team is now housed in X, the «moonshot» lab of parent company Alphabet.

Self - driving technology could reduce spending on roadways, parking, and public transit, says Chris Urmson, director of Google's self - driving car project.

Waymo, the subsidiary of Alphabet formerly known as the Google Self Driving Car Project, is poised to offer its autonomous - drive technology in millions of vehicles as it lowers costs for key components and improves the reliability of its self - driving.

After all, Musk explained, he spends at least 90 % of his time on either the electric car company or SpaceX; 3 % to 5 % on Neuralink, a venture aiming to create interfaces between the human brain and machine - learning technology; 2 % on his new tunneling project called the Boring Company; and the remainder on OpenAI, a non-profit dedicated to artificial intelligence research.

The contact lenses were developed during the past 18 months in the clandestine Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car, Google's Web - surfing eyeglasses and Project Loon, a network of large balloons designed to beam the Internet to unwired places.

Harvey has also delayed the first projected increase in year - over-year new car sales in 2017 for the month of August with 20,000 to 40,000 sales delayed in Texas.

Chris Urmson, the director of the company's self - driving cars project, says he wants his 12 - year - old son to be able to ride in an autonomous vehicle by the time he reaches driving age.

He's committed to running the company at least through the projected ramp up in production of a third - generation car, which is at least three to four years away.

Ever since Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the company is working on «autonomous systems» for cars, details have trickled out as well as a few public sightings of the technology Now, thanks to the co-founder of self - driving car startup Voyage, we're getting an up close look at — and some expert insight on — Apple's Project Titan.

As electric cars go, it's wildly impressive, and evidence of what a giant carmaker can do in a short period of time when it throws all its muscle behind a project.

Ferguson should bring more financial chops to the board as Alphabet (googl) and its CFO, Ruth Porat, look to streamline how the tech corporation invests in many of its moonshot projects, such as self - driving cars and contact lenses that can measure blood sugar.

We often hear about Google's oddball «Moonshot» projects — from using balloons to bring internet to isolated areas to developing self - driving cars — but according to at least one of the company's former execs, Google's obsession with shooting for the stars actually reaches into even the most mundane aspects of its everyday business.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that Apple has laid off dozens of employees on its self - driving car project, and closed down parts of the project entirely.

Both companies have outlined future bets beyond their core businesses — advertising, particularly search, provides the bulk of Alphabet's revenue and profit now, but it vaunts YouTube, cloud computing, hardware and experimental projects like self - driving cars as growth areas.

BMW is also committed to releasing an all - electric car with the autonomous capabilities in late 2021 as part of its Project i20.

When Google first invited employees to join its self - driving car project, some of them doubted its future success.

The company has been using medium - range LiDAR, which is located on top of the car, since the early days of its project.

The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.

He then took several questions in a row about plans for a self - driving car network and other long - term projects from the host of a YouTube channel focused on investing, praising the questions as not boring.

Currently, the tech titan currently has 53 self - driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., and Austin, Texas, according to the most recent report from Google on it's self - driving car project.

Project Loon was first revealed in New Zealand in June 2013 as a part of the Google X department, which comes up with innovations like the driverless car.

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

«We are really excited to get going on this project,» O'Connell said, which will bring prices down for batteries to power its upcoming line of cars with a price tag less than $ 40,000.

And while Porat bragged about the Google self - driving car project's recent milestone of 2 million miles driven, the company still hasn't brought the cars to market, despite being one of the first companies to embark on the project more than seven years ago.

Most are built at a cost of around $ 100, though there are some full size car projects that cost up to $ 15,000.

Musk is expected to talk a little bit more about how the company plans to finance several of the projects he outlined in his master plan, which includes solar - powered roofs, self - driving trucks and minibuses and a shared network of self - driving cars.

Aurora has been a much - watched startup because it was founded by three of Silicon Valley's most famous self - driving engineers: former Google self - driving car project head Chris Urmson; the former head of Tesla Autopilot, Sterling Anderson; and former Uber self - driving star engineer Drew Bagnell.

Meanwhile, the company's self - driving car project still hasn't announced any business plan and a bunch of people have left.

As we at Tesla reach for our goal of producing a mass market electric car in approximately three years, we have an opportunity to leverage our projected demand for lithium ion batteries to reduce their cost faster than previously thought possible.

Levandowski, who had previously led Alphabet's self - driving car project, has been accused of stealing technology and taking it to Uber.

AND, I still can go out for nice dinners, go to sporting events, go on a week or two of vacation each year, go to shows, have nice clothes for work and casual events, drive a decent car, and afford home improvement projects on my house.