Dazzling 2021 Hyundai Elantra Rolls Out on an Empty Movie Set
Hyundai upped its game, again, with the global reveal of the seventh-generation Elantra sedan. The car is truly impressive, but the West Hollywood set for the rollout, called The Lot, was essentially deserted: no journalists, no analysts, no photographers, and no caterers – just Hyundai people, dancers, and videographers for the live-streamed announcement Tuesday night. […]
SpaceX Dragon Uses Space Station Robotic Arm for Berthing for the Last Time
SpaceX has been flying cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) for years, but it’s gearing up to transport astronauts to and from the station soon. That’s not the only change in SpaceX’s space station activities. Elon Musk’s commercial spaceflight company just completed what could be the last Dragon berthing procedure ever at […]
‘GoFly’ Fly-Off Showcases the Future of Personal Flight
For those of us who grew up dreaming of jet packs, multi-rotor aircraft with electric motors and batteries are putting new life into the vision of personal flying machines. To spur innovation in this area, Boeing and others funded a $2 million “GoFly” competition for teams to develop prototypes that could carry a pilot or […]
Tesla is a ZERO and Q1 2020 revenue “will be an absolute disaster”
Stanphyl Capital February letter to investors on why Elon Musk’s automaker is in trouble. For example, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s charging network is facing massive competition – and many other reasons the stock is a short. Our longs got plastered this month but our “short QQQ coronavirus hedge” (put on in late January when I felt […]
Tesla, Driver, Feds, Safety Barricade All at Fault in Fatal Crash: Feds
Everybody’s getting blamed for the 2018 crash the killed the driver of a Tesla Model X that hit a safety barrier in Mountain View, California. In a report released Tuesday by the Natational Transportation Safety Board, the NTSB criticized Tesla for using the misleading term “Autopilot” for a semi-autonomous vehicle, Tesla’s Autopilot software for not […]
Tesla Sales Climb Nicely. But the Stock Price Soars. What Gives?
Ignore the Tesla production delays, flaps in China, and Autopilot confused by a 35-mph speed sign defaced to read 85 mph. Tesla is on a roll. Production continues to climb and Tesla’s total stock market value – the market cap – has passed $100 billion, making it the world’s second most valuable car company after […]
Tesla Teardown Scares Competitors: ‘We Cannot Do This’
A teardown of the Tesla Model 3 found Tesla is years ahead of the competition on AI and self-driving – as much as six years ahead by one estimate. Tesla’s choice to ignore the traditional supply channel, design and use its own microprocessors, and integrate much of the control functionality into a single module are […]
MIT’s Ground-Penetrating Radar Looks Down for Perfect Self-Driving
Ground-penetrating radar may soon be the sensor that makes your car autonomous in all weather conditions. It turns out that when you scan the 10 feet below the roadway surface, you get a unique identifier that is accurate to an inch or two. Mapping cars would scan the roadways once, then your self-driving car with […]
A Growing Presence on the Farm: Robots
A new generation of autonomous robots is helping plant breeders shape the crops of tomorrow.
Driverless cars: The growth of the autonomous market
The concept of driverless cars and autonomous vehicles always feels a little out of reach. Even in a world filled with smartphones that are perpetually connected to the internet, homes filled and run by virtual assistant AIs and almost every form of entertainment ever created available at a click of a button, we still consider […]