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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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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. It appears that that number is just for the airtime -- there are also obviously production costs involved. billion due to lost production. 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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Volkswagen to offer ChatGPT in its vehicles starting this year

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Volkswagen has announced plans to integrate the OpenAI-developed generative language model ChatGPT into its cars, as shared on Monday ahead of a major electronics conference. The integration is set to take place in some production vehicles as soon as the second quarter of this year, according to the release. What are your thoughts?

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US government to lend Lithium Americas USD 2.26 bn for Nevada’s Thacker Pass mine – ET Auto

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billion to build Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium project, one of Washington’s largest investments to date in the mining industry as part of a push to boost domestic production of critical minerals for the energy transition. The mine is slated to open later this decade and be a key supplier to General Motors.

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