(CNN)A 14-year-old from West Grove, Pennsylvania, won a $25,000 prize for creating a prototype designed to eliminate a car’s blind spots. Alaina Gassler told CNN she first noticed the problem when she realized her mom didn’t like driving their family’s Jeep…
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Month: November 2019
Over 90% of Tesla Model 3 Owners Say ‘Autopilot’ Makes Them Safer
In a recent customer survey, Bloomberg asked 5,000 Model 3 owners about their experience with the electric car makers software for automated driving on highways and parking lots, with over 90% of participants saying the Autopilot feature makes them safer. Te…
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Intel’s Mobileye, Nio partner on autonomous driving tech
2 min read Mobileye expects to mass produce EyeQ5, its fifth-generation autonomous driving chip, in March 2021. (Image credit: Intel) Intels self-driving unit Mobileye is joining forces with Nio to develop autonomous electric vehicles (EV) technology, drawn …
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Walmart reaches settlement with Tesla over solar panel fires, drops lawsuit
Walmart has dropped a lawsuit that accused Tesla of breach of contract and gross negligence after rooftop solar panel systems on seven of the retailers stores allegedly caught fire. A settlement has been reached and stipulation of dismissal has been filed wi…
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Midsize Companies Are Growing, But Struggling to Earn Profits
This summer, we published an analysis showing that the gap between large and small firms has grown over the past 15 years, with large companies becoming more likely to maintain their dominance and small ones less likely to become big and profitable. Several r…
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