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GM Says Self-Driving Car Service Could Add Billions to Its Bottom Line

General Motors said last week it expects to be ready to launch a self-driving ride-sharing service in San Francisco by 2019, and plans to then quickly roll out the commercial service "at scale" in multiple cities.

Toyota to Turn Cow Manure Into Hydrogen to Back Its Fuel Cell Vehicle Push

Fuel cell cars and trucks are a tiny piece of the U.S. clean vehicle market, due in no small part to the limited number of hydrogen fuel stations in California, one of the few places they’re sold. To help fix that Toyota is building a first-of-its-kind refinery to make large quantities of the zero-emission fuel from a dirty source: cow manure.

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Automakers Pledge Ethical Minerals Sourcing for Electric Cars

Leading carmakers including Volkswagen and Toyota pledged last week to uphold ethical and socially responsible standards in their purchases of minerals for an expected boom in electric vehicle production.

Ford Tests Exoskeletons for Assembly Line Workers

Once the purview of science fiction, exoskeletons are slowly working their way into real life. These aids are now being used on manufacturing assembly lines.

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Blockchain: Understanding its Uses and Potential

Teaching GE to Think Like a Startup

Entrepreneur Eric Ries rose to prominence by teaching startups how to adopt the best practices of big, global companies. Today he's also teaching huge companies how to behave more like the upstarts.

Uber Says It Will Bring Its Flying Taxis to Los Angeles in 2020

In just over two years, Uber says it will let commuters soar over Los Angeles' snarled traffic in flying taxis.

EU Unveils Proposal to Cut Vehicles' Carbon-Dioxide Emissions

The European Union proposed last week a 30-percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions from cars and vans in the decade through 2030, seeking to prod auto makers toward cleaner technologies led by electric vehicles and curb climate change.

How to Make the Most of Forecasting

Forecasting is a vital tool for many businesses, but is often poorly understood by stakeholders.

Alphabet's Autonomous Cars Ditch Backup Human Driver in Breakthrough Test

For almost a decade, self-driving cars have graced public roads - but always with a person behind the wheel. Now Waymo is yanking the driver.

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Baidu Aims for 'Android' of Robocar Tech With Open-Source Apollo Platform

Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang has a mild-mannered style at odds with his bold goals for "Apollo," the fast-growing, open-source self-driving car platform the Chinese tech giant launched in July.

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Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars to Fix Emissions Control Software

Audi is recalling almost 5,000 cars in Europe for a software fix after discovering they emitted too much nitrogen oxide, the polluting gas that parent Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) concealed from U.S. regulators in its devastating 2015 "dieselgate" scandal.

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