Sentences with phrase «driving car industry»

The incident has brought intensified scrutiny of the fledgling self - driving car industry.

But also for the entire self - driving car industry.

Uber has faced ongoing scrutiny over allegations of workplace harassment, a criminal probe into its attempts to evade regulators, a lawsuit over trade secret theft brought by Waymo — its competitor in the self - driving car industry — and a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges her medical files were improperly shared by Kalanick and other executives.

Business Insider talked with Levandowski about what it was like to be at the beginning of the self - driving car industry — and how it's going to change the future as we know it.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles had also recently proposed new rules for the self - driving car industry.

I basically think the whole fuel driven car industry is in for a huge transformation.

Not exact matches

Waymo's self - driving cars now have three LiDAR sensors — a redundancy that is unmatched in the industry.

«Tech isn't even its own stand - alone sector, because it has tentacles into all the other industries,» says Koch, ticking off its impact in retail (e-commerce), automotive (self - driving cars), banking (mobile payments), health care (big - data genomics), and more.

Why it's hot: The industry is being driven by a rapid uptick in machine vision and artificial intelligence capabilities as well as increasing interest in the commercialization of drones, autonomous cars, and other robotics applications.

Rinspeed essentially jammed the car with every tech feature the auto industry has been talking about this year, from self - driving tech to gesture - controlled displays that can tell you when the traffic light will turn green.

Prior to his announcement, Marchionne offered his peers some words of wisdom via an interview with Bloomberg for surviving a rapidly changing industry thanks to the advent of electric cars, ride - sharing, and self - driving vehicles.

I talked with Jim Lyski, the CMO of CarMax, about how the used car industry is becoming increasingly personalized and data - driven.

The move comes a week after the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposal that would change industry rules, allowing self - driving car companies to begin using driverless cars to transport passengers.

«I think it is material as that death has changed both the public's and the insurance industry's perception of self - driving cars,» wrote Coffee in an email to Fortune.

The U.S. pioneer in luxury electric cars charged by batteries was one of the first companies to offer steering that could be operated hands - free, one of the first steps to full self - driving that industry experts say may be available by 2020.

The company is also developing products in the self - driving car, robotics, life sciences and AI industries, among others.

Unveiling its mid-term Vision 2030 strategy plan, Honda said it would boost coordination between R&D, procurement, and manufacturing to tame development costs as it acknowledged it must look beyond conventional vehicles to survive in an industry which is moving rapidly into electric and self - driving cars.

Right now, for instance, there are more opportunities in the commercial sector for self - driving cars — but that doesn't mean advances in autonomous technology aren't things the U.S. defense industry also wants a piece of.

Technology giant Apple is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

Self - driving cars alone could be a double whammy to Berkshire Hathaway, hurting it in more than one industry in which it competes.

Drive through this full - service Georgia car wash, which scrubs about 2,000 cars a month for an average per - car revenue of $ 13.78, well above the industry norm.

In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to bindustries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to bIndustries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.

(I've heard countless horror stories of the latter, especially from the auto industry when I was closely covering the self - driving car startups last year.)

Not only could Uber take over the car manufacturing industry, but they believe that driverless cars could end the car insurance industry.Within the next several years, between ride sharing and self - driving cars, the millennial wave will bring in a new wave of transportation experience.

In America most self - employed people do grunt - work in highly conservative industries: construction, landscaping, car - repair, restaurant and truck driving for men and cooking, cleaning and beauty salons for women.

Speaking at the Code Conference at the Terranea Resort in California, Andreessen argued that self - driving cars will not only build productivity and save lives, but will drive many job - creating ancillary industries.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

Raising unprecedented amounts of money to outspend competitors, hiring key political PR experts to throw dirt on the taxi industry, and eventually ditching drivers to use self - driving cars.

FRANKFURT / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

The California - based electric car startup says the car will utilize an industry leading 130 kWh battery that's capable of driving 378 miles on a single charge.

Its ambition is to upend industries and challenge regulators, most recently in California where it had to halt a self - driving car pilot in San Francisco.

The Nissan people kept hectoring Levandowski about vehicle - to - vehicle communication, which the company's engineers (and many in the automotive industry) seemed to see as a significant part of the self - driving car solution.

And the deal on cars addresses the complaints in the American automobile industry that tariffs on steel and aluminium drive up the price of American vehicles and thereby put jobs in this industry in danger.

In the intervening six years, Uber was busy dismantling the global taxi industry, brawling with regulators and politicians, fending off employment lawsuits, exploring self - driving car technologies, and raising billions of dollars.

Many industry experts saw an opportunity for the two companies to work together on a ride - hail network of self - driving cars.

Predicting the developmental path for the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry is immensely difficult, and that makes regulating the emerging sector akin to driving a car while someone else is still building the vehicle.

In a utopian world, Canadian auto workers would get huge raises, governments would lavish money on the industry, and cars would drive themselves as they met fuel efficiency and emissions standards effortlessly.

Just consider Amazon Prime's two headline features — free shipping and Prime Video — and then consider three of the primary industries in the consumer economy: consumer packaged goods companies leverage their size to secure shelf space in big box retailers; both are reached by people driving their cars.

The firing is the latest dramatic twist in a high - stakes court battle between Uber and Google's Waymo that is expected to shape the future of both companies» self - driving car programs and the industry at large.

You know, we see it in the automobile industry with self - driving cars, but you can go right down the line of every industry and see it.

Our leadership in the car sharing industry drives our distinctive corporate culture and promotes a core set of values that attract and retain motivated employees.

Through this acquisition Qualcomm will be able to grow faster in future industries such as drones and self driving cars.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber and Waymo's industry - critical battle over self - driving car technology now includes allegations of cover ups, clandestine meetings and big stock payouts.

The growth of the American car industry is now driven by international auto manufacturers who conduct research and development, invest in plants and equipment, and build cars and light trucks in America.

The self - driving industry is still very new and car manufacturers as well as auto suppliers are all creating different parts of the technology.

As electric cars, gigafactories, ride sharing and autonomous driving develop, the auto industry is on its way to some severe disruption.

Electrification, ride sharing, self - driving cars: the auto industry is changing dramatically.

A typical 3.5 horsepower gas mower, for instance, can emit the same amount of VOCs — key precursors to smog — in an hour as a new car driven 340 miles, say industry experts.

They think their ethical knob would work not only for self - driving cars, but for all areas of industry that are becoming increasingly autonomous.

By plugging them into cars and squeezing nearly 300 miles out of a single charge, Tesla helped drive battery technology, and a reluctant auto industry, forward.