Forrester IT

APRIL 6, 2021

We kept Research Associate, Alexis, pretty busy during the first three months of the year, and she procrastinated getting her annual car inspection in Massachusetts done. When she showed up to get her car inspected early last week (the day before her inspection sticker expired), the service center couldn’t do the inspection.

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Vox

JANUARY 5, 2024

VCG/VCG via Getty Images The world had “flying cars” in the 1930s. If you want to be a little more whimsical about it (and not totally inaccurate), you could say that China has opened a flying car service. We can have a world full of flying cars — if we want it. We had flying cars 100 years ago. Where’d they go?

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Vox

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tesla , the world’s most valuable car company , lost $80 billion in value in January — 12 percent of its market capitalization — after CEO Elon Musk projected lower sales this year. So Americans aren’t slamming the brakes on electric cars so much as letting up on the gas pedal, and the market could pick up some speed again this year.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Apple’s plan to make electric cars (Project Titan) has been canceled, and AI played a big part in it. From tough challenges to changes in the car market, let’s uncover how AI became a game-changer in Apple’s car journey. Why is the Apple electric car project canceled? But why did this happen?

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It has been an open secret for years that Apple was working to develop an electric car with autonomous capabilities. Now it seems those efforts have been shelved, according to an announcement from Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a vice president in charge of the effort. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Google revealed what's next for the Android automotive platform at CES 2024, showing some of the most enticing features coming to Android Auto and cars with the "Google built-in" software stack. Android Auto is a mobile app that can mirror Android devices (smartphones, tablets) on a car's dashboard, while Google. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

APRIL 10, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Washington state car buyers are increasingly going electric. New data shows that 19% of new cars registered in Washington in 2023 were electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids — almost double the U.S.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

(Amazon Photo) Amazon caused a spark in the car industry Thursday, announcing a new deal with Hyundai to let customers buy cars on the tech giant’s online marketplace for the first time. They just want the car that they want, at a fair price.” Voelk likened Amazon’s new deal to Costco, which also sells cars.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Izumi Kawanishi, president of Sony Honda Mobility, showed off the company's first electric car, the Afeela, at CES using a DualSense controller. A video feed from inside the cabin shows the yoke steering wheel moving as Kawanishi maneuvered the car slowly across the stage (around 29 minutes in the video below). Read Entire Article

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Volkswagen’s electric car’s launch has been delayed due to software problems Image Credit: Rutger van der Maar. The future of the company is riding on their forthcoming all electric car that they will be using to compete with the likes of Tesla. The company has had previous problems with their new all electric car.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 6, 2022

France has taken a unique step to remind people cars suck. In December, the country passed a law requiring the creators of car commercials to encourage viewers to try not driving a car—at least, whenever it’s possible. Read more.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some car brands may be collecting info that would likely raise more than a few eyebrows. A new report from Mozilla shines a light on data privacy in the auto industry.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Some car brands may be collecting info that would likely raise more than a few eyebrows. A new report from Mozilla shines a light on data privacy in the auto industry.

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TechSpot

MARCH 13, 2024

Gurman referred to the new chip as the car's "AI brain," noting that its development was nearly complete before Apple. The information comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who reports that the chip was being developed by the Apple Silicon team, who designs the processors for the company's iPhones and MacBooks. Read Entire Article

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What happened to the Apple car? Bloomberg claims Apple has halted development on the Apple Car project (Project Titan) because the company no longer thinks the project is viable. Fresh claims that Apple has shelved its project to build a semi-autonomous vehicle have emerged, and this time they ring true.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

ton car levitated 35mm above a modified section of highway in eastern China. Researchers think applying maglev locomotion to cars could increase their range and longevity while consuming less energy. Chinese media recently reported that a 2.8-ton A separate test hit a maximum speed of 230kph (about 143mph).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Wrench , a 8-year-old Seattle startup that offers a mobile car repair service, is raising more cash. Wrench also provides access to roadside towing, vehicle detailing, tire installation and inspection of used cars prior to purchase. New SEC filings indicate $40 million raised in debt and $14.2 million raised in equity.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Researchers Jen Caltrider, Misha Rykov, and Zoë MacDonald write that cars are officially the worst product category they have ever reviewed for privacy. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2023

Significant advances have been made in the technology that powers self-driving cars in the last decade, but there's still further to go. We dive into the current state of self-driving cars in 2023. Read Entire Article

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JULY 27, 2022

Spotify started testing a voice-controlled device for cars back in 2019. Dubbed Car Thing, it was initially only available to a small group of invited Spotify Premium members in the US. The device represented Spotify's first foray into hardware although the company insisted it was more about learning how people.

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TechSpot

JULY 24, 2023

We have been preparing the same slide for almost a decade showing some version of "Cars of today $X of semis" and "Cars of. A perennial joke around D2D HQ refers to the dollar content in automotive semis – it is the market of the future and always will be. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 2, 2023

Alef Aeronautics, the California-based sustainable mobility company that announced its flying car last year, has been granted a Special Airworthiness Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The certification is the first of its kind for the new class of hybrid driving/flying vehicles. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Apple announced at WWDC this week that you’ll be able to add a digital car key to your iPhone or Apple Watch to wirelessly unlock and start your car. If you want to share your car key, you’ll be able to do so via the Messages app. Image: Apple. Coming to the 2021 BMW 5 Series. specification, which was finalized in May.

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TechSpot

JULY 24, 2023

As per The Verge, JD Power's Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study shows that overall satisfaction among car owners has, for the first time in the 28-year history of the study, seen a consecutive year-over-year decline. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 23, 2021

Startups are emerging to take on the challenge of insuring autonomous cars, which pose new liability questions. Read More.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ring’s Car Cam was announced and made available for pre-order today. The company’s new Car Cam , unveiled Thursday morning, is designed to record video while driving or parked using a dual-facing camera that captures events both inside and outside the vehicle. Ring Photo).

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Cruise car and the other car that was involved were waiting side-by-side at the traffic lights. The San Francisco Chronicle writes that the crash occurred on Monday at 9:35 p.m. at Market and Fifth streets. Both started moving when the lights turned green, even though the pedestrian was still. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Applied sciences students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University have broken the world record for acceleration in an electric car. The University of Stuttgart held the previous record, set last year when it sent its car screaming down the track, going from zero to 100 km/h (62.15 mph) in 1.461. Read Entire Article

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

If you got in your car and suddenly found that Spotify’s Car View feature had mysteriously disappeared, I’m sorry to say that no, it’s not a bug. Spotify actually announced—although “whispered” would be more accurate—that it was killing Car View more than a month ago, but it looks like it hadn’t gotten to actually… Read more.

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TechSpot

JULY 12, 2023

The system is only operational when the vehicle is on, however, meaning your batteries are left to brave the elements when your car is off and parked. As New Scientist highlights, most modern electric vehicles have integrated thermoregulation systems that ensure batteries stay within their optimal operating temperature. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

You could set Car View to activate when connected to your car via Bluetooth. Spotify says it’s retiring its Car View feature, which was introduced at the beginning of 2019 as a way to make the app less distracting and easier to control while driving ( via 9to5Google ). Image: Mitchell Clark / The Verge.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn and the GPU superpower Nvidia have collaborated to develop "AI factories," innovative data centers designed to power various applications, including self-driving cars. Read Entire Article

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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Even before we get to that, here are six problems the Apple Car – and anyone else developing such vehicles – must solve. Saving the world one car at a time The car you drive is a giant chunk of steel, iron, plastic, aluminium, glass, rubber, precious metals and more. Shared AVs seems like a more promising approach.

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TechSpot

APRIL 28, 2023

The crab-driving demo is especially impressive, showing the car pulling up to a space that would be difficult to parallel park into, but thanks to the wheels being able to rotate 90. Hyundai recently released new footage of its Ioniq 5 prototype EV with an e-Corner module on each wheel. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Aside from companies who have been selling to auto makers for years, cars are still less than 10% revenue for most chip companies. Often left unsaid is that semis growth in autos is still fairly distant. And so it is difficult to draw up reliable forecasts for the segment.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tom Merritt tells us the things that are getting in the way of autonomous car adoption.

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Vox

AUGUST 25, 2023

Over the same period, more than 365,000 Americans have been killed by cars. So, what would happen if we treated cars like we do planes? Cars kill Americans at insanely high rates and it’s not getting better Aviation authorities call American air travel the safest in the world, the Times reported.

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