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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis to drive faster, farther, at night in Las Vegas – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Zoox also operates retrofitted self-driving Toyota Highlanders in Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Foster City, California. Zoox said it will free up its specially designed vehicles to drive at speeds up to 45 miles per hour (72 kph), from 35 mph. m)after she was hit by a human-driven car.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

It slots below the top-end Sapphire, Air Dream launch edition and Air Grand Touring (more on that model at the end of this article), and above the Air Pure. Lucid set-up a mini drag strip, where after some expert instruction on how to use the launch control, we did 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds and hit 88 mph before lifting.

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GM Cruise unit issues fleet-wide ‘recall’ following viral collision

Teslarati

For GM, that comes in the form of its level 3 autonomous taxis serving the San Francisco area under the brand name Cruise. As initially reported by Reuters , the Cruise robotaxi that has gained so much notoriety over the past week collided with a San Francisco bus , injuring nobody but causing minor damage to the Cruise vehicle.

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Event: WAJ Media Day: A Million Dollar Drive

Clean Fleet Report

This scenic town, located 30 miles south of San Francisco, sits on the Pacific Ocean and is known for its annual Pumpkin Festival , and the giant waves at Mavericks. More reviews will be coming from some of the other notable cars that were there (see list at end of article), so stay tuned. seconds to 60 mph. V8 we drove.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. In fact, plug-ins can produce virtually no emissions at all while driving around town, as long as you don’t exceed 34 mph or press the gas pedal past halfway and engage the gasoline-powered engine. By Robert Gammon for the East Bay Express.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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