Self-driving truck developer TuSimple is looking to sell off its U.S. operations, including a major research center and freight terminal in Tucson where it laid off most employees not long after a major expansion just last year.\nTuSimple said the layoffs would drop its total U.S. workforce to 220 from 550 employees.\nClawing backAmid the mass layoffs, TuSimple is in apparent violation of a February 2021 incentive agreement based on job creation.\nIn December, the company said it had decided to drop its “unprofitable” truck routes, and focus on providing industry partners with its self-driving truck technology.\nTuSimple had an agreement with truckmaker Navistar to build autonomous driving technology into its trucks, but the companies ended that pact in December.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Chorus grows in opposition of California's driverless truck ban","slug":"chorus-grows-in-opposition-of-california-s-driverless-truck-ban","publishDate":"2023-07-09 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-09 14:30:33.161129","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"A growing group of associated business and industries are joining the chorus echoing opposition to a ban on driverless trucks in California.\nThe California Senate Transportation Committee will hold a hearing this week on AB 316, a bill that would effectively ban autonomous trucks in the state.\nCalifornia Assembly Bill 316, legislation that requires a trained human operator in autonomous vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds, passed the California State Assembly last month.\nThe California Business Properties Association sent a similar letter in late June, saying the bill \"would exacerbate gridlock across our supply chain.\nAutonomous heavy-duty vehicles will make our supply chain more efficient as trucker shortages are filled and autonomous commercial semi-trucks can drive for longer, safer trips.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Fernride raises $31M in Series A funding","slug":"fernride-raises-31m-in-series-a-funding","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-07-09 14:30:31.928696","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Fernride raises $31M in Series A fundingSun 9th Jul, 2023Fernride, a local and leading German autonomous, electric trucking company, has secured $31 million in Series A funding to accelerate the transition towards automated and sustainable logistics by creating the world's leading human-machine collaboration technology.\nThe major challenges in the logistics industry today are the extreme truck driver shortage, growing CO2 emissions, and tight profit margins.\nThe company's ambition is to become the global leader in autonomous trucking within the next five years.\n\"As we are deeply transforming how the logistics industry is operating, it is crucial to partner with some of the industry's leading players.\nYard trucking represents a $25 billion market in Europe and North America and is only the starting point for transforming the trucking industry.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"ABLIC Inc. Debuts Automotive Voltage Trackers -","slug":"ablic-inc-debuts-automotive-voltage-trackers","publishDate":"2023-07-07 16:45:30+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-08 14:31:12.538801","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"On July 3, ABLIC Inc. launched the S-19721 Series of automotive voltage trackers.\nThis series is in a class of integrated circuits (ICs) with an offset voltage as low as ± 4.5 mV, the lowest offset voltage in the industry.\nVoltage trackers essentially balance the voltages between various sensors and the power supply so that the output is equal to the input.\nThe S-19721 Series of voltage trackers prevents these issues from occurring by having several protective functions integrated into its design, such as an overcurrent protection circuit, a thermal shutdown circuit, and a reverse current protection function.\nThe S-19721 Series offers 36V operation and 250 mA output.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Meta Launches Twitter Rival, Threads, to Cheers and Jeers","slug":"meta-launches-twitter-rival-threads-to-cheers-and-jeers","publishDate":"2023-07-07 11:53:30+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-08 14:31:10.760810","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, launched a new social media app called Threads, which aims to challenge Twitter’s dominance in the microblogging space.\nThreads is a text-based conversation app that allows users to post short messages, photos, and videos, and interact with others in real-time.\nYou do not have full control over your data and privacy on Threads, as Meta collects information about your activity and preferences on both apps.\nThreads has already attracted some backlash from Twitter, which is considering legal action against Meta over its fast-growing rival app.\nHe tweeted that Meta uses its algorithms to manipulate information and create a “social media monopoly” based on its extensive data collection practices.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"WeRide Gets National Self-Driving License From UAE","slug":"weride-gets-national-self-driving-license-from-uae","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-07-08 14:31:09.277517","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Chinese self-driving company WeRide has been awarded a groundbreaking permit to test its autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the United Arab Emirates.\nThe license will allow WeRide to run its Level 4 vehicles on public roads across the entire country – the first time such a far-reaching permit has been issued anywhere in the world.\nUntil now, we have become accustomed to driverless vehicles being granted approval to operate in specific locations within nations, such as California and Arizona in the United States, and Wuhan and Shanghai in China.\nIt also has experience elsewhere in the Middle East, having conducted test rides of its self-driving bus in Saudi Arabia last year.\nRelated :Self-Driving Cars in Dubai Face New Driverless Car Law
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"How police connected a driver to violent road rage shooting on PA Turnpike in Bucks County","slug":"how-police-connected-a-driver-to-violent-road-rage-shooting-on-pa-turnpike-in-bucks-county","publishDate":"2023-07-07 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-08 14:31:07.380136","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"A 30-year-old Montgomery County man who shot at three motorists during separate road rage incidents on the Pennsylvania Turnpike last year will serve at least 15 years in prison.\nRoad Rage: Montco man faces chargesMontgomery County man charged with shooting at vehicles on PA Turnpike in BensalemHow did authorities catch the road rage driver on the PA Turnpike?\nFalls Township police started looking at Green as a possible suspect in a Jan. 3, 2022, road rage incident there.\nThe driver of the red car continued to drive recklessly, attempting to cut him off and force him off the road.\nState prison for road rage on PA TurnpikeBefore sentencing, Deputy District Attorney Thomas Gannon played dashboard camera footage captured by two victims.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"F1 to introduce hi-tech policing plan at British Grand Prix to ward off Just Stop Oil protesters","slug":"f1-to-introduce-hi-tech-policing-plan-at-british-grand-prix-to-ward-off-just-stop-oil-protesters","publishDate":"2023-07-07 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-07-08 14:31:07.182488","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Facial recognition cameras have been set up around the British Grand Prix as part of a hi-tech policing plan to foil a potentially deadly Just Stop Oil protest.\nAfter recent invasions at the Ashes and Wimbledon, another attempted sabotage at Silverstone is seen as an inevitability from the radical protest group.\nLast year’s race was one of the first major events targeted since Just Stop Oil was formed in a breakaway from the Extinction Rebellion group.\nWith recent protests at the cricket, tennis, rugby and football, authorities believe they know the networks of potential invaders.\nAmid extensive monitoring of racegoers, security officials will underline to those arriving that their privacy is not being compromised.
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