Americans scared of self-driving cars
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They are powered by witches and driven by Satan

A new survey of US adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than current models and nearly two thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle.

MobileEye mocks Nvidia as a copycat
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Your stuff is rather similar

MobileEye boss Amnon Shashua took a swing at the GPU company named after a Roman vengeance demon.

Toyota pretends hybrids are better
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Better than admitting it has been caught short

The company that bought us sticky gas pedals, Toyota, has fallen behind other car companies in producing electric cars and is dealing with the problem by pretending that hybrids are better.

Tesla Model Y starts at $47K in late 2020
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And in Europe will cost €56.000 in early 2021

Tesla has announced its next car and simply calls it Tesla Y. This is a higher version of Tesla 3 that has a similar interior - read no interior but a single 15inch tablet - but is slated to have three sitting rows and a range of 300 miles (482 km). Elon doesn’t tell you that a fully self-driving vehicle costs an additional $8,000 in the US and  €9,200 in Europe.

Toyota prepares to go into space
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The final frontier

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota have signed an agreement for future collaboration in space.