Were about to enter a world in which autonomous vehicles (AVs) routinely make life-and-death decisions. Before hopping in, we should draw lessons on how to regulate them from recent missteps in another industry: airlines. With stronger oversight, it appears, …
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As Wall Street Awaits Earnings Report, Tesla Pumps Up the Range
Later today, Tesla will release financial data for the first quarter of 2019, a quarter in which both deliveries and production fell compared to Q4 2019. The Model S and X returned their worst sales showings in years, and analysts fear a steep drop in revenue…
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Hitting the Books: When better living through technology isn’t enough
Modern tech culture has long been enamored with the mythos of the lone genius achieving superhuman status (a la The Matrix). Whether it’s Jack Dorsey’s self flagellating dietary restrictions, Peter Thiel’s obsession with “young blood” transfusions, or Tim Fer…
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Musk Still Rues Tesla Being Public, Though the ‘Ship Has Sailed’
Elon Musk, whose efforts to take Tesla Inc. private ended with the U.S. bringing fraud charges, called the electric-car maker’s stock price “manic depressive” and said he still wishes the company were no longer public. “I would prefer we were private, but …
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Ahead of IPO, Uber’s Losing Less—but Growing Less, Too
The year of the gig economy IPO continues, when Uber Thursday made public its first bit of official paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commissiona sign that the tech company is preparing to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The filing sh…
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