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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

O’Dowd: I was in a [Tesla] car, as a passenger, testing on a country road, and a BMW approached. Then it expanded into Phoenix, also relatively easy. People build a safety-critical system, then they put a cheap commercial software product in the middle of it. That’s when you founded the Dawn Project. What’s next?

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. At the time, there were eleven OEMs. The pioneer of vehicle­-to-grid is part of my team.