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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.

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In San Francisco, being a human rather of a robotic will value you

Baua Electric

San Francisco lets in drivers and automobiles, takes fingerprints, drug-tests drivers and problems a written examination, amongst alternative necessities. Not like with taxicabs, the dimensions of a robotaxi fleet can’t be regulated through San Francisco’s issuance of medallions to keep watch over congestion.

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Elon Musk Twitter takeover prompts prank that fools mainstream media

Teslarati

These included Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Amidst Friday’s events, two men carrying boxes were seen standing near the entrance to Twitter’s San Francisco building. Agrawal and Segal were reportedly escorted out of Twitter’s headquarters.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

Cars That Think

In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. In 1958, Pedott moved to San Francisco, where he lived for the rest of his life as an ad man. Eventually, they filed for a U.S. patent for the new and improved device.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

GM and other automakers are moving ahead without waiting years or decades for wide deployment of V2V and V2I, collectively referred to as V2X. Although Google’s ultimate vision is autonomous vehicles that do not need a steering wheel or brakes, for legal compliance, these 25-mph prototypes will have both should a driver need to take over.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

With the help of David Evans of Evans & Sutherland and William Hambrecht of Hambrecht and Quist, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, they wrote a business plan and incorporated in December of 1982. They intended both to sell this setup as a turnkey system and to franchise the publishing equivalent of a one-hour photo store.

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Tesla FSD’s prolonged release doesn’t make it a ‘fraud,’ company says

Teslarati

District Court in San Francisco. Moreover, the hundreds-of-paragraph, narrative complaint fails to support a single cognizable legal theory. Tesla is currently involved in a class-action lawsuit from a few Autopilot and Full Self-Driving customers and has recently filed a motion to dismiss the case with the U.S.

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