Sentences with phrase «of other car companies»

Tesla, GM, and Volvo are some of the other car companies actively pursuing autonomous development.

There are lots of other car companies with much lower standards.

Not exact matches

Assuming that other sites car brands advertise on are plagued by a similar rate of fraudulent web traffic, Solve Media calculated car companies would waste $ 541 million out of the $ 2.5 billion eMarketer estimates the auto industry will spend this year on digital branding in the U.S.

Because all of Tesla's cars are equipped with the software and hardware necessary to collect data that can be used to improve its ML system, the electric - car company could have a huge edge against other automakers and tech companies working on autonomous vehicles.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, Alphabet's core business generated $ 26.1 billion in revenue, far eclipsing the $ 262 million its moonshots (like self - driving cars) and other bets (like home automation company Nest) generated in the same period.

They simply won't sell otherwise — think of how disastrous the new self - parking Lexus would be for the company if it ended up with a high incidence of banging up other cars.

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

Electric car company Tesla paid back a controversial loan to the Department of Energy on Wednesday, a feat that sets it apart from other fledgling electric car start - ups and programs.

There are still plenty of challenges ahead for Novartis and other companies in the CAR - T space.

So sedans and other cars are expected to still form more than a quarter of all consumer vehicle sales in the U.S., but the overall trend appears to be that American companies especially are giving up trying to sell cars to Americans.

Musk, best known as the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has also launched The Boring Company, whose mission is to dig tunnels under traffic - clogged cities (such as his hometown of Los Angeles) where underground conveyer belts will whisk cars from one side of town to the other.

Ridesharing companies don't let drivers work out of other people's cars, but the program designed by Peers partners ridesharing drivers with cars through the hybrid rental company Breeze.

In fact, Tesla actually made all of its technology open source in 2014, so that other car companies can use its tech to build their own electric vehicles.

Importantly, the deal also means that Gilead / Kite rival Novartis (which had its own CAR - T drug approved ahead of Yescarta) and other CAR - T companies won't be able to get in on Sangamo's platform.

Some analysts have noted that rising gas prices have made car - sharing a desirable method of transportation in urban areas; other experts have praised the company for its successful overseas strategy and smart use of technology.

If the prospect of working remotely from the comfort of your home, and saving enough money to afford an extra vacation or a down payment on that new car looks appealing, Amazon, Apple, Dell, and IBM (among other Fortune 500 companies below) are currently hiring remote workers.

Grab has been seeking to dominate the regional market for car and motorbike hailing and has expanded into other areas, recently announcing plans to partner with a Japanese credit card company to provide credit to millions of people without bank accounts.

The company told the makers of planes and cars, among other products, that it was supplying them with copper, aluminum and steel that met their specifications, when this was in fact not true.

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

With the rise of Uber, Lyft, and other ride - sharing companies, traditional car and insurance companies will need to do something drastically different if they want to survive.

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 buy online.

New on - demand services, from ride - hailing company Uber to home - delivery service Instacart, all rely on armies of workers to run errands, park cars and handle other jobs.

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.

«There's a lot of companies in Ontario, and indeed in other parts of Canada, who are wonderful at technology and can develop the software, the sensors, the security systems that these cars will need and they will be able to compete on a huge multi-billion-dollar global market.»

People doubted that when we first came out with the Roadster eight years ago, but given the success of Model S and Model X, the overwhelming interest in Model 3, and the fact that other car companies are finally starting electric vehicle programs of their own, no one should doubt that anymore.

The profit that Tesla Motors booked for the third quarter was boosted by the company's record sales of its existing electric vehicles, along with the cost reductions and the sale of pollution tax credits to other car manufacturers.

Other car insurance companies will be focused on the transition and will use the lower number of claims as a way to be aggressive on their pricing.

«We think the Model 3 will feature hardware and software that provide a level of active safety that could significantly lead all other cars on sale today and could, if the company achieves its goal, be an order of magnitude (i.e. 10x) safer than the average car on the road,» Jonas wrote in a note Thursday.

He noted that Dollar Thrifty had been of interest to other rental car companies because it represented a way to gain market share in the value market for both leisure and business travelers.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

Car companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tecCar companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving teccar tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tech).

Tesla also collects hundreds of millions from competing automakers by selling environmental credits in California and more than half a dozen other states to car companies that can't meet the states» «zero emissions» sales mandates.

Shippers accuse carriers of favouring their more well - serviced markets when rail cars are in short supply, causing shipping delays for companies that have no other transportation options like trucks or other rail carriers.

By contrast, Alphabet's self - driving car division, Waymo, is building some of its own hardware, like the laser - based radars called lidar, in a bid to supply carmakers and other self - driving technology companies.

For example, if a founder contributes a significant amount of cash (i.e. enough to buy a car) to fund the company, then I might suggest that the company issue preferred stock with a liquidation preference and no other rights to the founder, as opposed to issuing common stock.

In other related news, the company has teamed up with Fiat Chrysler to increase its fleet of self - driving cars by about twofold, particularly the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan fitted with the technology.

Google and four other companies are leading efforts to form a coalition to urge federal action for the adoption of self - driving cars.

I mean think about it from a government standpoint, there's a company out there that's knowingly selling products that contribute (and sometimes the main cause of) to childhood obesity which in turn contributes to more medical bills, global warming (from all the use of cars in lieu of biking or walking) and other consequences.

A lockout here would like be business partners stabbing each other over the interior options of the new company car.

Car hire was problematic — we only had the choice of an open top or SUV from the company on - site as all the other cars were booked.

This marvelous owl is certainly a soother toy with an approachable and wise personality that's also portable and can be strapped to the crib bars, fitted to a stroller, carried with the child to other locations, great for the baby to be able to have their musical friend outside of the crib and with them as company on large car journeys.

A frantic call to 1 - 800 numbers of three other major car rental companies confirmed our fears - that we were SOL.

This is a company that is so dedicated to safety that sometimes they do research that doesn't even have to be done — they are pushing companies to think longer and deeper about the products that they are putting out onto the market, which means that every other car seat brand is getting better because of the work they are doing.

The UPPAbaby is a great option, full of lovely features because the company strives to make the best - designed strollers, car seats, and other baby gear items.

WICK is generally a good resource to look into, some insurance companies their county programs and other local charities that often give out car seats but safe kids generally has a list of those depending on where you live they will be different.

If you're traveling with your young child and don't want to carry along a stroller, car seat, portable crib, or other items such as baby backpacks or baby gates, you can rent them from a number of companies specializing in such gear.

Investors in Elon Musk's Tesla electric - car company may press on with their lawsuit that challenges the firm's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity on grounds that the $ 2.6 billion deal was flawed by potential conflicts of interest involving Musk and other company directors, the court ruled.

The workers on Monday morning locked up the offices of the CEO and other executives seized their official car keys and deflated their tyres in protest at what they describe as unacceptable how the company is being run.

As the Saratoga and North Creek Railway plans to bring in revenue by storing train cars from other companies, environmental organizations are calling for the state to reject the plan in the interest of preserving the Adirondack Park.

At the outset, it filed patents like any other company, because it was worried that bigger car manufacturers would simply copy its technology and drive it out of business.