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Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, said that its toaster-shaped driverless vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals was approved to drive on public roads with passengers in California.The company celebrated the milestone as the "first time in history a purpose-built robotaxi - without any manual controls - drove autonomously with passengers."

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A driverless GM Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month, and didn't come to a halt until firefighters smashed its front window, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.It's yet another hair-raising incident that highlights the dangers of letting autonomous vehicles roam free in a crowded urban environment.

When transit systems experience delays, the reason usually isn't very interesting: congested streets, medical emergencies, mechanical problems.But the cause of a recent holdup on San Francisco's MUNI system at least had the virtue of being novel.On Sept. 30 at around 11 p.m., an N Line streetcar ground to a halt at the intersection of Carl Street and Cole Street because an autonomous vehicle from Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, had halted on the streetcar tracks and wouldn't budge.

Tesla's Autopilot "self driving" technology has slipped to the middle of the active driver assist (ADA) software pack, says the nonprofit Consumer Reports, as companies like Ford and General Motors have overtaken the Musketeers in the automotive code lane.Consumer Reports reached that conclusion after testing 12 different ADA systems, which it classified as technology that combines adaptive cruise control (ACC) and lane centering assistance (LCA) to take the stress out of driving on highways or in traffic jams.

Android Automotive, Google's operating system for cars, has historically been pretty niche, and only a handful of high-profile cars like the Polestar 2 have used it.Now, though, Android Automotive is going mainstream, and we're starting to see some of the biggest car manufacturers roll out Google's operating system across entire lineups.

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track.The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/13/23 featuring funding details for Olyns, Salsa, AudiencePlus, and twelve other deals representing $291M in new funding that you need to know about.

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OnStar is spending upwards of 90% of its ad budget on digital addressable media.The 25-year-old in-vehicle safety and security system company is hoping the strategy will allow it to more effectively target customers and better inform its 2023 marketing strategy."We know who many of our consumers are, and we want to make sure that we're hitting our reach and frequency targets to them as precisely as possible," said Laura Thornton, head of marketing for the digital business team at General Motors, OnStar's parent company.

Amazon will resume advertising on Twitter and spend around $100 million a year, Platformer reported.Platformer said the move would require "some security tweaks" to its ads platform.Apple has "fully resumed" advertising on Twitter, Elon Musk said on Saturday.Amazon plans to start advertising on Twitter again to the tune of about $100 million a year, Platformer journalist Zoë Schiffer tweeted.

Elon Musk's Twitter is offering brands generous incentives to advertise on the social media platform, in a bid to boost business after the billionaire's approach to content moderation prompted many major marketers to curb spending.In one email sent to advertising agencies, a copy of which was seen by the Financial Times, Twitter said that it was launching its "largest advertiser incentive ever" in December, offering additional impressions if brands spent a certain amount.

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TikTok has been a formidable competitor to Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and now leads the chart for time spent on the platform by US adults.According to eMarketer, TikTok and YouTube lead the way with about 45 minutes each for average time daily time spent per user, compared with Facebook and Instagram at 60 minutes combined.

An axiom in medicine is that good judgment depends on experience, and experience depends on bad judgment.Basically, one way doctors refine their care is through a learning curve resulting from inexperience and lack of judgment.A fitting example during the COVID-19 pandemic was the worldwide experience with ventilators, which are used to support lung function in patients with serious COVID-19 pneumonia.

The beginning of the new year means the start of a new electric vehicle tax incentive in the US.Until now, the IRS allowed taxpayers to claim a tax credit of up to $7,500 on a new plug-in vehicle, with the exact amount determined by the battery's capacity in kWh.Additionally, the credit was designed to sunset once a manufacturer sold its 200,000th plug-in, although only Tesla and General Motors ever reached that milestone.

U.S. auto sales likely rose in December and will rebound in the new year as a recovery in vehicle production will more than offset the effects of inflation and rising interest rates.Two years of semiconductor shortages and supply problems have kept vehicle production low and inventories lean.With factories picking up pace again, consumers will buy more vehicles this year even if automakers have to help them manage rising interest rates by cutting today's lofty prices.

One of the biggest developments out of Tuesday's debt ceiling meeting was President Biden's selection of two officials to negotiate directly with aides to Speaker Kevin McCarthy: Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Steve Ricchetti, a White House senior adviser.That decision appeared to mollify Mr. McCarthy, who noted after the meeting that we finally have a formula that has proven to work in the past.

The United Auto Workers union has opened a new chapter in its storied history, and it may end up looking a lot like its combative past.Over the weekend, the 88-year-old union confirmed that an outsider, Shawn Fain, had prevailed in a hotly contested election for president, ousting the incumbent.An electrician whose father and grandfathers were also U.A.W. members, Mr. Fain has promised to take a tough negotiating line for increased wages in contract talks this year with the three Detroit automakers.

A year and a half in the making, Emily Winston's mega bagel facility with the custom bagel-slinging robot arm is opening at 7:30 a.m.today, March 24, in Berkeley, where Boichik Bagels fans will no doubt wait in long lines to catch a glimpse of BakerBot and nibble on Pumperthingles.The new Boichik Bagels will be open until 1 p.m. daily, or until sold out.

Android is doing a pretty good job of colonizing the in-car infotainment ecosystem.At first, Google's operating system started showing up in new vehicles as custom installations, but more recently the company developed Android Automotive, which you can find in new cars from General Motors, Polestar, Volvo, Honda, and soon, both BMW and Volkswagen Group.

The Chronicle has published a searchable database of contracts that the City of San Francisco has with around 4,000 for-profit and non-profit companies.The data only goes back to 2017, but you can see, for instance, that Urban Alchemy has reaped over $60 million in contracts from the city in the last three years alone, to address homelessness and man safe-sleeping sites, among other things.

"Those who decide to remain in the Ukrainian market after the war should carefully monitor the timing of the end of martial law so as not to lose rights to their trademarks."A company's trademark activity is a very telling indicator of whether it is interested in a particular country's or region's market.

General Motors said on Monday it will recall 42,000 sport utility vehicles in Canada from the 2014 through 2017 model years because the driver's air-bag inflator may explode during deployment.On Friday, GM said it would recall in the United States 994,763 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia vehicles from 2014-2017 model years with modules produced by ARC Automotive Inc.

A group of workers at a Tesla factory in Buffalo began a campaign on Tuesday to form a union, saying they want better pay and benefits.If successful, the effort could establish the first union at the fast-growing auto and energy company, which has fiercely resisted efforts to organize its employees.

Ford Motor has stopped production and shipments of its electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, while it looks into a potential problem with the vehicle's battery pack.As part of our predelivery quality inspections, a vehicle displayed a potential battery issue and we are holding vehicles while we investigate, the company said Tuesday in a statement.

A 2021 Chevrolet Bolt EV, right, is pictured next to 2020 models at a Chevrolet dealership in Saline, Mich., on Feb. 25, 2021.General Motors announced a recall of certain Bolt hatchbacks from the 2017 to 2023 model years.(Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press) General Motors is recalling nearly 20,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric cars in Canada and another 120,000 in the United States to fix a seatbelt problem that can cause fires.

When I lived in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco's foggy beachside neighborhood, I grew accustomed to seeing camera and sensor-fitted vehicles roaming through the surfer and pastel home lined streets.The quiet neighborhood made an obvious testing ground for Google-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise.

Here's today's CTV news round-up... Want it by email?Sign up here.The Super Bowl has always been a promotional pageantry for brands - and this past weekend's game was no different.But this year's ads were unique in that they clearly reflected recent cultural shifts in the US.When the game wasn't buffering (because even live sports are streaming now), I saw multiple ads for streaming services in roughly the amount of time it took to eat a single box of mozzarella sticks.

Elon Musk has accused Apple of threatening to remove Twitter from its App Store without giving a reason to the social media platform.Twitter's new owner also said the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on Twitter, prompting him to ask if the tech group hated free speech.Musk revealed the potential App Store ban in a series of tweets on Monday.

Tom Brady attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Paramount Pictures' 80 For Brady presented by Smirnoff ICE at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles.Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures On the football field, quarterback Tom Brady has just about done it all.For almost a quarter of a century, Brady piled up dozens and dozens of NFL regular season, playoff and Super Bowl passing records.

Elon Musk said in a stream of tweets Monday that Apple has "mostly" stopped advertising on Twitter and threatened to "withhold" the social media platform from the app store."Do they hate free speech in America?"Musk tweeted.The business magnate also tagged Apple CEO Tim Cook in the thread saying, "what's going on here."