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History of the GEM Car and a Look at Its Future

Clean Fleet Report

Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) has pioneered neighborhood electric vehicles (EVs), demonstrating a prosperous past and promising future. The company also makes work trucks to help businesses with microtransit needs. While it has a bright future, the GEM lineup has come a long way since its start 30 years ago.

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Electric jet company Lilium partners with Palantir

Teslarati

An electric jet startup company, Lilium, has partnered with software giant Palantir to introduce what they think is the future of mobility. Over the past ten years, there has been an explosion in the number of companies looking to offer personal electric aircraft to the masses. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. Other companies, including Apple and Tandy Corp. IBM CEO Frank T.

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Erhardt et al. Science Advances Vol.

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Opinion: Will Self-Driving Cars Eventually Repossess Themselves?

Clean Fleet Report

New Technology Raises New Legal Questions. More than 1,400 autonomous vehicles from more than 80 companies are being tested on U.S. Legal Considerations. Even if the technology existed for autonomous repossession to be possible, there would be a few legal considerations. The Future of Self-Driving Cars Remains Uncertain.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

Cars That Think

But what some people don’t realize is that generative AI models are only as good as the ginormous data sets they’re trained on, and those data sets aren’t constructed from proprietary data owned by leading AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Whereas the terms of service may be legally enforceable but are not machine-readable.

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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

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The fundamentals of IHL were developed before the widespread use of personal computers, satellites, the Internet, and social media, and before private data became a commodity that could be accessed remotely and often without a person’s knowledge or consent. IHL, Emerging Technology, and AWS.