The Difference Between Tesla Autopilot and Future Self-Driving Cars: Intelligence
There has been a lot of coverage about the recent Tesla crash (
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Connected Vehicles
Tesla and SolarCity Merger: A Poorly Presented Formula for Disaster
From the outside this looks like an abuse of power, and thus the merger between Tesla and SolarCity is not being received well at all. What is happening is that Musk who owns about 20 percent of SolarCity and Tesla
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Hail Windshield Damage: Shouldn’t We Have Gorilla Glass On Cars? It’s Coming!
We’ve been having some really nasty hail storms of late. Where I live it was so thick it looked like snow. Fortunately, we got the survivable small stuff—but in other parts of the country golf ball sized hail has turned
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How Apple Could (and Likely Will) Build a Better Tesla
Last week I spoke about why NVIDIA should build two cars. One a virtual car that could both showcase their iRay Virtual Reality solution and their vision on where cars should go, and a developer’s car designed specifically so that
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Why NVIDIA Should Build a Smarter Car (Actually Two of Them)
I spent the week at NVIDIA’s GTC (GPU Technology Conference) and it was a showcase for everything from high resolution VR to self-driving cars. On stage NVIDIA’s iconic CEO Jen-Hsun Huang indicated his firm would, with respect to cars, do
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Google wants to help drivers steer clear of potholes
Potholes suck. Hitting a pothole at full speed can cause a flat tire or damage your rims. Even if you manage to avoid direct damage, driving on pothole strewn roads causes major wear-and-tear on your vehicle–wear-and-tear that could and should
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Qualcomm + CSR: Why your car stereo will eventually sound better (and other stuff)
I was actually expecting a bit more of this earlier but Qualcomm closed their acquisition of CSR this week and the end result is that it will, once the packaging and integration efforts complete, be far better able to compete
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The Internet-of-Everything according to Qualcomm
Qualcomm had a big IoE (Internet of Everything) event this week and they walked us through a variety of their initiatives from AllSeen and AllPlay, to Smarter Cities and Automotive, to smart appliances and smartwatches. All of these have a
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Predicting the future: Why flying cars, robots, and AI are finally almost here
I was at a dinner earlier this week talking about a joint study much more aggressively Chinese companies were positioning for the future and that the Chinese Government, in sharp contrast to the US Government (and most others) was aggressively
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Apple shareholders urge Tim Cook to buy Tesla
Days after Apple’s ‘Spring Forward’ Apple Watch event, shareholders discussed the possibility of either purchasing Tesla or linking up with the electric car maker at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting. Tim Cook fielded questions from key investors on the future of