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GUEST: The title of the most popular vehicle in the electric car market has created a long and highly competitive race between Tesla and Chevrolet. Though the two brands offer vastly different versions of electric vehicles, they seem to be the two makes dominating electric vehicle sales in 2017. Reports show that the top spot for […]

(Reuters) — Tesla Inc on Wednesday pushed back its target for volume production on its new Model 3 sedan by about three months, saying it was difficult to predict how long it would take to fix all production bottlenecks. The company also reported its biggest quarterly loss ever, sending shares down nearly 5 percent after […]

(Reuters) — Three women engineers have sued Uber for discrimination based of their gender and race, the latest blow to the ride-services company that is straining to overcome a year of controversies over its workplace culture. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday at the Superior Court in San Francisco, follows a widely read blog post in February […]

Baidu today announced more details about its open-source Apollo autonomous driving platform, steps toward a stated goal of placing fully autonomous vehicles on roads and highways by 2020. Apollo launched in April and now counts more than 70 partner organizations from the AI, car manufacturing, and autonomous vehicles sectors as Nvidia, Ford, Microsoft, and a […]

Freight trains are a slow-moving business, in more ways than one. Their average speed is well under 30 mph on U.S. rails, according to the Department of Transportation. But that’s not all — and the speed of innovation is also quite slow, said Wesley Mukai, the CTO of GE Transportation. A locomotive is a 30-year […]

Machine learning and deep learning AI have gone from the niche realm of PhDs to tools that will be used throughout all types of companies. That equates to a big skills gap, says Gil Arditi, product lead for Lyft’s Machine Learning Platform. “From very early on, Lyft was a data-driven company and a machine learning […]

Delphi Automotive, one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers, has announced plans to acquire fledgling autonomous car startup NuTonomy in a deal pegged at $450 million. Founded out of Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2013, NuTonomy spun out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to focus on self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. The company has […]