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Dec 23, 2015

Faraday Future: What if?

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What if there was an electric car that not only helped preserve the environment — it actually made us look forward to the daily commute? What if such a car could redefine our relationship with the automobile itself? Our new short film — ‘What if?’ — explores the cleaner, better world we’re building at Faraday Future, and the big questions that drive us. http://faradayfuture.com

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Dec 22, 2015

The Robot Cars Quietly Get Closer, The Noise They Make Will Change The World

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With a reported tie-up between Google’s self-driving car efforts and the automaker Ford, the era of autonomous vehicles is getting closer. The impact is likely to shake up the balance of power in the global auto industry and among the technology elite. At stake is nothing less than trillions of dollars.

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Dec 21, 2015

Elon Musk Says Tesla Vehicles Will Drive Themselves in Two Years

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel, sustainability, transportation

Musk opens up about autonomous vehicles, self-driving car rules, and the competition.

In Elon Musk’s world, “easy” is used to describe problems many might consider impossible—or at least very difficult to solve. Producing a fully autonomous vehicle that can operate in any condition and on any road, for example, is easy-ish. And Tesla Motors TSLA 0.91%, the all-electric automaker that Musk heads, is two years away from achieving it.

“I think we have all the pieces, and it’s just about refining those pieces, putting them in place, and making sure they work across a huge number of environments—and then we’re done,” Musk told Fortune with assuredness during his commute to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., where he is also CEO. “It’s a much easier problem than people think it is. But it’s not like George Hotz, a one-guy-and-three-months problem. You know, it’s more like, thousands of people for two years.”

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Dec 20, 2015

The 16 most bizarre vehicles we’ve seen this year

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Reinventing the wheel.

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Dec 19, 2015

**Future Is Near**

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This Audi Parks Itself, and Comes When You Call!

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Dec 18, 2015

This is the flying car the FAA just approved for test flights in US airspace

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Finally, a flying car!

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Dec 17, 2015

Tesla throws shade at hacker who built a self-driving car

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Samsung Pay lets users ditch the physical gift cards in favor of the digital version.

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Dec 17, 2015

Sway A Revolution in Transportation

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Sway Lithium PLUS electric three-wheeler–an urban creative capable of reaching speeds of up to 70mph. Just lean into turns and maneuvers allows riders to zip from point A to B without any lag.

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Dec 17, 2015

Ordering an Uber ride through Facebook Messenger feels like the future

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

It feels futuristic to have Uber built directly into an app like Facebook Messenger. Here’s how it works.

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Dec 16, 2015

Google ‘disappointed’

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Google says it’s disappointed by draft rules that would ban driverless cars from traveling on public roads in California without a licensed human driver.

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