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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

The Truth About Cars

A recent report from The New York Times has accused automakers of selling customer driving data to insurance firms. Not only is the amount of data being shared staggering, so is the specificity and degree to which it’s impacting people’s insurance rates. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car.

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Elevating the EV Consumer Experience: Beas Auto Sales and PlugStar Certification 

Plug in America

He is not just selling cars; he is leading the way towards educating his EV customers to make informed and confident purchase decisions. He actively participates in Electric Vehicle events, shares valuable information online, and offers comprehensive test drives to showcase the practicality and efficiency of EVs.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. Installing the 5.2

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

Teslarati

Porsche is reportedly hiding the problem from customers and authorities and quietly replacing damaged battery cell modules without informing customers to cover up the problem. Porsche is reportedly aware of the problem and is working on it, but the automaker has not solved it or informed customers or authorities so far.

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iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home

Cars That Think

"Over the past several years, iRobot has continued to do more to strengthen, and clearly define, its stance on privacy and security. We know our customers invite us into their most personal spaces—their homes—because they trust that our products will help them do more. iRobot Is Not Going to Sell Your Data.

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Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help

Cars That Think

Chris, you were doing some interesting stuff at iRobot back in the day too, that I think a lot of people may not know how diverse iRobot’s robotics projects were. Of course, where that means, and we continue to be super excited about what they’re doing. iRobot Ventures is one of the investors in Labrador Systems. Jones: Correct.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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