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QOTD: Would You Live in Automotive-Branded Housing?

The Truth About Cars

I got a press release from Aston Martin today about the opening of a high-rise condo building in Miami that bears the company's branding. Of course, the 66-story, 391-unit building is opening in time for next week's Miami Grand Prix Forumla 1 race. Apparently, 99 percent of the units are sold. There's just a handful left.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center to launch 4 new system usability research projects

Green Car Congress

The new projects will be undertaken in partnership with University of Michigan, Miami University, University of Nebraska, Texas Transportation Institute and State Farm. Toyota’s CSRC is investing $1 million in research projects focused on creating systems that are safe and efficient.

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Tesla Vision’s maximum speed for Autosteer raised to 85mph

Teslarati

During the All In Summit tech conference in Miami, Musk noted that Tesla plans to expand its Full Self-Driving pool. There’s about 100,000 people in the beta, so it’s not tiny,” Musk said during the tech conference, “and we’ll be expanding that to, I don’t know, probably one million people, on that order by the end of the year.”.

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Tesla may make its Full Self-Driving Beta tester pool ten times larger

Teslarati

CEO Elon Musk, who has sparred with Twitter brass over his planned $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform over the past few days, was in Miami yesterday at the “All In Sumit” tech conference.

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Twitter acquisition can’t move forward until its bot numbers are ironed out: Elon Musk

Teslarati

Musk cited similar figures during a Miami tech conference yesterday. One of these is SparkToro co-founder Rand Fishkin, whose analysis involved over 44,000 public Twitter accounts. Fishkin’s firm estimated that 19.42% of Twitter users are likely spam or fake. .

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Musk seeks Twitter deal discount, believes 20 percent of accounts are spam

Teslarati

During a tech conference called “All In” in Miami on Monday, Musk remarked that he believes 20 percent of users on the platform are fake or spam accounts, and it may be the reason the Tesla CEO did not rule out the possibility of a deal reformation that would require him to pay a lower price.

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World's largest solar powered boat reaches Cancun for climate change conference

National Green Transportation

Last week they arrived in Miami for a promotional stop, and they are now in Cancun for the UN Climate Change. The TÛRANOR PlanetSolar is a large 100% solar powered "multi-hull" catamaran boat that's on an around the world trip.