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Toyota-backed U.S. self-driving startup garners $67 million investment

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May Mobility says it has technology that’s the equivalent of Level 4 automated driving, which means that the vehicles won’t be required to have a driver at certain points and in regions where it’s designated as legal, according to Society Automotive Engineers (SAE) autonomy designations. The post Toyota-backed U.S.

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How to Start and Run a Trucking Company That Stands Out

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This blog post will discuss some of the things you can do to make your trucking company stand out from the competition. 6) Get legal assistance: Finally, it’s important to get legal assistance when starting and running a trucking company. Quality equipment can make you stand out.

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Get Ford F-150 Raptor Power for Much Less Coin

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It's worth noting that the Town and Country upgrades are not 50-state emissions legal, but Ford offers a different supercharger kit for more than $12,000, but it only boosts output to 700 horsepower and would drive the cost of a base F-150 XL to almost $50,000, and that’s before you pay someone to install and tune it. The truck also has a 3.73

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Electric Saab Emily GT May Get Second Life Under New Investors

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A Chinese company purchased the new entity and faced bankruptcy before a group of investors stepped in to save it, which& could revive plans & for a new 600-mile EV. & & The mysterious newly formed company plans to start car production, though it might use the Saab name for legal reasons.

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Porsche Humiliates Tesla at the Nürburgring

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Sure, there’s plenty of valid argument that setting a lap time around what amounts to an arbitrary ribbon of tarmac in Germany – one with over 150 turns and stretching nearly 13 miles, no less – is a fool’s errand which proves little. This jives with the brand’s promise to release video footage of its 7:07.55 lap in mid-March.

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San Francisco Traffic Stands Still After Cruise AVs Stall in North Beach

The Truth About Cars

Outside Lands is a three-day music festival held in Golden Gate Park roughly four miles away. It’s unethical and immoral but legal,” he continued. “As I understand it, outside lands impacted LTE cell connectivity and ability for RA advisors to route cars,” Wilson explained to him. Bottom line, this all goes to Gov.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

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miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking. Some states even have user privacy laws that already place these practices on shaky legal ground and California is actively investigating how automakers collect their data. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car.

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