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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19 Self-driving Vehicles

The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. If this is your first time, hello; I’m glad you’re with us. I have started…
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April 6, 2020
General Motors and Honda are expanding their electric-vehicle partnership. That collaboration could be a model for the rest of the industry. (F, GM, FCAU) Self-driving Vehicles

General Motors and Honda are expanding their electric-vehicle partnership. That collaboration could be a model for the rest of the industry. (F, GM, FCAU)

General Motors and Honda announced that they would expand their partnership to develop two electric vehicles.Honda will design the models using GM's new Ultium technology, and a GM plant will manufacture them.GM and Honda aren't merging, but their EV collaboration is starting to look like an experimental tie-up to pursue…
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April 3, 2020
Chechnya becomes first Russian region to impose coronavirus curfew Self-driving Vehicles

Chechnya becomes first Russian region to impose coronavirus curfew

By Polina Nikolskaya and Polina IvanovaMOSCOW (Reuters) - The southern Russian region of Chechnya on Friday became the first to introduce a night curfew to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, despite having reported only a dozen confirmed cases.Rights activists have raised concerns over how the lockdown measures…
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April 3, 2020
Waymo’s AI improves autonomous vehicle performance while saving costs Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo’s AI improves autonomous vehicle performance while saving costs

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle research division, today detailed a system — Progressive Population Based Augmentation (PPBA) — it claims has improved the performance of its autonomous systems while reducing the amount of data required to train them. Specifically, Waymo says PPBA bolstered its cars’ object detection capabilities while decreasing costs…
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April 2, 2020
Grab makes e-scooter and cab rides free for frontline coronavirus workers in the Philippines Self-driving Vehicles

Grab makes e-scooter and cab rides free for frontline coronavirus workers in the Philippines

Essential workers in the Philippines are getting a helping hand from mobility company Grab in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. In an update to users last week, Grab said it has deployed 50 e-scooters to local governments specifically use by health care workers and other essential employees. Workers in…
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March 31, 2020
Autonomous truck startup TuSimple partners with supplier ZF to develop tech including cameras, lidar, and other sensors; plans driverless truck tests by 2021 (Antuan Goodwin/CNET) Self-driving Vehicles

Autonomous truck startup TuSimple partners with supplier ZF to develop tech including cameras, lidar, and other sensors; plans driverless truck tests by 2021 (Antuan Goodwin/CNET)

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