Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings
The company didn't say how many are in each city and has taken a far more cautious approach to scaling the network than CEO Elon Musk had promised.
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The company didn't say how many are in each city and has taken a far more cautious approach to scaling the network than CEO Elon Musk had promised.
It must be earnings day, because Tesla is making a Robotaxi announcement. The company said in a post on X that it was launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, attaching a pair of maps that show each city's service area. No word on fleet size or whether interested customers would be able to […]
Stellantis will use technology from Intel's Mobileye to power its Level 2 hands-free driving features for its vehicle brands, the companies announced Tuesday. Starting in 2027, Stellantis will begin using Mobileye's EyeQ system-on-a-chip and a data crowdsourcing program called the Road Experience Management, or REM, which uses real-time data from Mobileye-equipped vehicles to build out […]
Tesla has revealed its upcoming Cybercab design with a built-in SpaceX Starlink V5 dish.
Bhavuk Jain discusses translating foundational AI into scalable mobile products. He shares the engineering challenges behind AI Wallpapers and Circle to Search, detailing how to implement robust runtime guardrails, fine-tuning, and seamless OS integration. For engineering leaders, he explains balancing UX constraints with model latency and infrastructure cost to deliver safe, reliable AI. By Bhavuk Jain
The end of the Ford F-150 Lightning was also the start of a new era for the automaker. After failing to capture the market with the electric version of its popular F-Series truck, Ford is going back to the drawing board with its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. The first offering will be a $30,000 electric […]
Do you need to be in your car to set up your digital car key?
Electric aviation is still in its infancy, but manufacturers are already looking beyond mere air taxi trips across cities. Today, one of the leading air taxi startups, San Jose-based Archer Aviation, unveiled a new aircraft it co-developed with defense technology company Anduril - though the platform is designed for both military and commercial uses, the […]
Max Korbacher explains why successful internal development platforms cannot be built on tech alone. He discusses the pitfalls of infrastructure-first thinking, the importance of a clear product mindset, and how to measure real value using DevEx and SPACE metrics. Learn how to align your team, manage tech debt, and foster a thriving community to ensure lasting platform adoption. By Max Körbächer
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The line between editorial content and paid promotion has been eroding for years. On most major retail platforms, in countless lifestyle publications and across the breadth of social media, content that presents itself as independent assessment is frequently underwritten by the very brands being assessed. This is not a new problem, but it is a worsening one. The consequences are practical. Consumers who believe they are reading a review and acting accordingly may be making purchasing decisions on the basis of what is, in effect, an advertisement. The financial cost of that mistake is modest in most individual cases. The cumulative effect on consumer trust is not. Understanding what separates a genuine review from disguised promotional content requires more than checking for a disclosure label. It requires looking at structure, incentive, methodology and language - and recognising that some of the most effective adverts are those that most convincingly resemble reviews. What a Review Is Actually Supposed to Do A review serves one primary function: to help a reader make an informed decision about a product, service or brand. That function is incompatible with advocacy. A reviewer who is trying to help a reader decide cannot simultaneously be trying to persuade that reader to buy. This distinction sounds obvious. In practice, it collapses quickly when the person writing the review has a financial relationship with the brand, when the product was provided free of charge without conditions, or when the publication depends on advertising revenue from the sector it covers. None of those arrangements automatically invalidates the content produced. But each one creates a structural incentive that pushes in a specific direction - and that direction is rarely towards harder scrutiny. The Disclosure Problem Regulatory frameworks in the UK, including guidance from the Advertising Standards Authority and the Competition and Markets Authority, require that paid-for content be clea
On July 19th, dozens of teams of high school students will begin a five-day, 630-mile road race from Fort Worth to Fort Stockton in Texas. But this is not your typical contest. The students design and build the cars themselves, using off-the-shelf parts and 3D printed materials. The winner is the team that accumulates the […]
This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.
Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market this year.
A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.
Cheater, I'd grumble between huffs as yet another e-bike rider casually skittered past me on a steep ascent. It's this purist attitude that, for years, has left me blind to one simple fact: electric mountain bikes are fun! My attitude adjustment came a few weeks ago, the very first time I rode an Amflow PX […]
The NHTSA recently called for autonomous vehicle companies to improve how cars respond in emergency situations.
Are we living through a small car renaissance? There's the Slate Truck, Amble's dune buggy, and the Fiat Topolino, as well as a whole galaxy of kei cars and trucks from Japan that have their own built-in fan base. While microcar sales in the US are still as tiny as the vehicles themselves, there are […]
The recall comes as the top automotive safety regulator in the U.S. has warned AV companies about their vehicles interfering with first responders.
Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI agents natively with OpenTelemetry to track concrete user actions (accepting, dismissing, or regenerating code fixes) as implicit labels, creating a continuous data flywheel to distill frontier capabilities into cheaper, local SLMs. By Ben O'Mahony