Connected and Autonomous Vehicles:
🏛 Tesla and Waymo Executives, Others Testify About Self-Driving Cars. “Recurring themes in the hearing included the need for Congress to establish a national framework to regulate AVs instead of a patchwork of state regulations, outcompeting China in the development of AVs, and room for improvement in Tesla‘s TSLA -2.91%↓ and Waymo‘s GOOG -0.93%↓ AV safety features.”
🤔 Luminar Sale Approved Despite Last-Minute Mystery Bid. “While the bid was ‘substantially higher,’ there were ‘infirmities’ in the offer, according to a lawyer for Luminar. The company ultimately decided to stick with the $33 million bid it received from MicroVision.”
🚘 Only 10% Made It: What 15 Years of CES Says About Autonomous Vehicles. Examples of things that did make it:
- Real operating robo-taxi service (with caveats on remote operation and ongoing edge cases).
- Level 3 autonomy features customers actually use.
🙂 GM Working Hard To Resolve Telematics Module Issues. “GM GM -0.36%↓ continues to work through a wave of telematics module problems that have left some owners without key connected features for weeks, and in some cases months, as replacement parts and repairs lag demand.”
🌎 Hyundai Motor Group Partners with Vodafone IoT to Deploy Connected Cars in Five Countries.
📌 Alibaba to Merge its Autonomous-Driving Unit With China’s Zelos.
😮 Tesla’s Robotaxis are Cheaper than Waymo, But the Wait Times are Longer.
Asset Tracking and Fleet Telematics:
