Will the future of transportation be robotaxis – or your own self-driving car?
GM is shutting down its robotaxi business, Tesla is creating one of its own – what does the future hold for self-driving?
Welcome back. This week in tech: General Motors says goodbye to robotaxis but not self-driving cars; one woman’s fight to keep AI out of applications for housing; Salt Typhoon; and tech’s donations to Donald Trump. Thank you for joining me.
Tenant-screening systems like SafeRent are often used in place of humans as a way to ‘avoid engaging’ directly with the applicants and pass the blame for a denial to a computer system, said Todd Kaplan, one of the attorneys representing Louis and the class of plaintiffs who sued the company.
The property management company told Louis the software alone decided to reject her, but the SafeRent report indicated it was the management company that set the threshold for how high someone needed to score to have their application accepted.
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Robotaxi start-up Pony.ai expects cheaper driverless cars on more roads in China in 2025
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GM Ends Cruise Robotaxi Efforts and Steers Its Self-Driving Tech to Passenger Cars
The Detroit auto giant says it’s halting its investment in Cruise’s robotaxi project at $4.4 billion, and integrating its technology into its own vehicles’ autonomous driving features.Inc. - 6d -
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