Im not going to lie to you, its a bit of a slow summer Friday out there, news-wise. Hopefully thats a leading indicator that it will be a slow summer Friday for you, work-wise. Anyway, onto The Morning Shift for Friday, June 21, 2019. 1st Gear: The Drivings …
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Driverless cars are coming. We’ll miss the thrill of the ride.
Flirting with danger on the open road is as old as, well, motoring itself. A free-spending heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune, William Kissam Vanderbilt II bought his first car in 1899. Many more followed, though the machines were obscenely expensive. A no…
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One of China’s top venture capital-backed EV startups is nowhere to be seen
Youxia Motors, one of the earliest companies to arise out of Chinas 2014 electric vehicles startup boom, racked up some of the biggest venture-capital deals in the sector. Now its curiously out of sight. A little over a year ago, it closed an $800 million fu…
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Tesla’s Autopilot Found Most Likely to Confuse Drivers on Safety
Automakers including Tesla Inc. are stoking confusion among motorists by choosing names for their automated-driving systems that wrongly suggest they’re more capable than is actually the case, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Almo…
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This Auto Stock Jumped 31% While You Were Watching Tesla’s Slump
Longtime highflier Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has had a tough 2019. Although its share price has bounced a bit recently, the Silicon Valley automaker’s shares are still down about 33% from the beginning of the year — 22% in May alone — on concerns about slumping d…
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