The Truth About Cars

JUNE 12, 2024

With corporate media finally aware of the perils of connected vehicles, we’ve seen a rash of articles exploring how insurance rates have spiked due to automakers sharing user data. The entire business model is predicated upon this, minus the fact that it became a legal requirement to drive in most states by 1970.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Google Cars GM Volvo 104

Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. IBM's original manufacturing forecasts called for 1 million machines over three years, with 200,000 the first year. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year.

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Personal Market Corporation Dallas 145

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. Besides, what do you expect for nothing, on-line?

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle. There are all sorts of reasons why rules can be tossed out by judges: [for example] they’re vague, they’re over-broad, they’re ultra vires [beyond an agency’s legal power or authority]. You better have some steel. That’s huge.

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California Emissions Future EPA 52