Appeals court allows parents to sue Snap over 100 mph car crash
The parents argued a Snapchat filter encouraged their boys to drive recklessly.
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Timothy B. Lee
Senior tech policy reporter
timothy.lee@meincmagazine.com
Timothy B. Lee was on staff at Ars Technica from 2017 to 2021, covering technology policy and the future of transportation. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Princeton. He lives with his family in Washington, DC. You can follow him on Twitter.
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How the next Patent Office director could shape the patent system
Obama created “death squads” for bad patents—Trump’s nominees curtailed them.
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Kroger will begin drone deliveries in Ohio this week
The FAA has finally started allowing commercial flights beyond the line of sight.
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Disney gets special “theme park” exception to Florida’s anti-tech bill
A legal challenge to the new law seems inevitable.
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Uber, Lyft stocks plunge after Biden official says drivers are employees
Uber and Lyft argue treating drivers as employees would wreck their business.
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A Chinese company has started charging for fully driverless rides
China has the world’s strongest self-driving industry after the United States.
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Lyft is getting out of the self-driving business
Lyft will save about $100 million without its self-driving project.
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Tesla posts another record quarterly profit—and Wall Street shrugs
Tesla has $17 billion in the bank.
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Legislation would mandate driver-monitoring tech in every car
Distracted driving claimed more than 3,000 lives in the US in 2019.
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Republicans and Democrats increasingly agree: Big Tech is too powerful
Biden chose a Big Tech critic for the FTC—GOP senators seem happy about it.
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Consumer Reports shows Tesla Autopilot works with no one in the driver’s seat
Consumer Reports argues Tesla needs a better driver-monitoring system.
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In new deal, Wisconsin slashes controversial Foxconn subsidies 30-fold
New deal requires Foxconn to create 1,454 jobs—down from 13,000 in the original.
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Elon Musk denies Autopilot was active before deadly crash in Texas
“Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled,” Musk tweeted.
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Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash
Car was reportedly traveling at a “high rate of speed” in a residential area.
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Who will win the self-driving race? Here are eight possibilities
The state of the self-driving industry, from Argo to Zoox.
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Dogecoin has risen 400 percent in the last week because why not
Dogecoin rallied after Elon Musk tweeted a photo of “Doge Barking at the Moon.”
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Google veteran pans Tesla Autopilot: “We were doing better in 2010”
Aurora more than doubled in size when it acquired Uber’s self-driving project.
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Walmart invests in self-driving startup Cruise
Cruise says it’s about two years from commercial launch. We’ve heard that before.
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Tesla tells customers they’ll have to pay more for solar roof
One customer under contract told Ars his price rose from $66,000 to $87,000.
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This is Intel’s plan to dominate driverless car technology
Intel says its driverless tech will be ready in 2023—I’m skeptical.
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Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation
The Winn-Dixie website isn’t accessible for blind users with screen readers.
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Amazon workers in Bessemer have voted not to form a union
The unionization vote had huge stakes for Amazon and the labor movement.
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FTC urges courts not to dismiss Facebook antitrust case
FTC blasts “anticompetitive actions to neutralize, hinder, or deter” competitors.
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Twitter won’t let federal archivists host Trump’s tweets on Twitter
Twitter is taking a hard-line stance on the banned @realDonaldTrump account.
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Riders face long waits as Uber and Lyft struggle to recruit drivers
Riders are flooding back to ride-hailing apps. Drivers, not so much.
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How the Supreme Court saved the software industry from API copyrights
The Supreme Court surprised everyone with its API copyright ruling.
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Supreme Court rules API copying is fair use
The ruling heads off an expected wave of lawsuits over API copyrights.
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Amazon admits its drivers sometimes have to pee in bottles
“Drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms,” Amazon admits.
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Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down
Waymo ordered “up to” 82,000 vehicles in 2018. Today, it has “well over 600.”
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Fender bender in Arizona illustrates Waymo’s commercialization challenge
Self-driving systems won’t necessarily make the same mistakes as human drivers.
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Arizona lawmaker: Big Tech “hired almost every lobbyist” to kill app store bill
“There just wasn’t enough support” after lobbying blitz, one legislator said.
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Chinese military restricts use of Teslas over security concerns
Employees at sensitive facilities have been asked not to drive Teslas to work.
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Uber concedes UK drivers are workers—some drivers aren’t satisfied
Uber only wants to pay for “engaged time”—not time waiting for a new customer.
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Another self-driving startup got gobbled up by incumbents
Voyage tested a retirement-community taxi service but never went driverless.
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Nvidia accidentally releases driver to un-nerf cryptocurrency mining
Nvidia hobbled the RTX 3060’s mining abilities to reserve the card for gamers.
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Report: Indian government is planning outright ban on cryptocurrency
The proposed bill would ban trading, mining, and even holding cryptocurrencies.
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