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Germany’s Vay launches remote-driven car service in Las Vegas – ET Auto

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German remote-driving startup Vay said on Wednesday it had launched its first commercial service in Las Vegas where a “teledriver”, or remote driver, delivers electric short-term rental cars to customers then collects them after the rental.

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

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Zoox also operates retrofitted self-driving Toyota Highlanders in Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Foster City, California. It also expanded the Las Vegas area in which the cars can travel to five miles from one mile, it said in a statement. m)after she was hit by a human-driven car.

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Rent a car in Las Vegas with remote driver, courtesy German engineering

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A Vay remotely-driven vehicle seen in operation in Las Vegas United States. The service is currently available around the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the city’s arts district renting out cars by the minute. These vehicles are autonomous in nature but are not self-driven.

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Stellantis Pulls Out of LA, SEMA

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Stellantis will not be at next month's Los Angeles Auto Show. Nor will it be at the upcoming Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas. This is due to the ongoing United Auto Workers' strike. We'll have to see if Ford or General Motors follow suit. 3, 2023) and the LA Auto Show (Nov.

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GM, Stellantis Sit Out Super Bowl

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Some of the best, or at least most memorable, Super Bowl ads of the past few years came from Stellantis or General Motors. The strike is why Stellantis pulled out of the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show and the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (happening right now in Las Vegas). Remember Will Ferrell schilling for GM ?

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Aptiv to cut stake in robotaxi tech firm Motional, stop funding – ET Auto

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Aptiv will reduce its stake in self-driving technology joint venture Motional and will stop further funding after incurring millions in losses related to the investment, the auto parts supplier said on Wednesday. Motional, a venture between the company and Hyundai Motor Co , uses the South Korean carmaker IONIQ5 electric car for its robotaxi.

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VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year – ET Auto

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Volkswagen ‘s voice assistant integrating ChatGPT into its cars will be able to converse with users in a back-and-forth dialogue by the middle of the year, the carmaker said on Monday as it presented the technology in Las Vegas. “I think what our customers are really looking for is seamless, intuitive usage of their car.”