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    There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

    While reading your previous paragraph my mind immediately went to this. All city busses around here have yellow lights on the back that start blinking when the bus is coasting. I'm surprised EVs don't have some similar thing for when regen is active (or maybe past a certain level). But then...
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    There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

    I wonder if people who have spent significant time driving a manual transmission (and using engine braking to decelerate) transition more easily to EV one-pedal mode. I've never driven an EV, but I imagine the various regen settings being like choosing 5th gear (mild) to 2nd gear (heavy) when...
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    There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

    Are they holding the accelerator down and then pushing the Start button? Or just mashing it after the car is "started"? It seems the former should be a simple software fix to prevent forward motion until the accelerator is lifted after starting. The latter is pure driver error. Do any EVs have...
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    Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

    But...that's not what this is at all, Financial Times. This is a shares-and-chips-for-money arrangement.
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    The first cars bold enough to drive themselves

    "Inexplicably?" How the hell am I supposed to get my fresh Sunday-morning-drive OJ otherwise? From a carton? Like the riff raff over in the Steering Wheel Required lane? Pfft.
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    Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

    So, only paying customers have a right to slop-free articles, or to an opinion on Ars's journalistic standards? Glorious Ars Subscribers vs. Filthy Non-Subscriber Heathens, is that it?
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    After Moltbook, AI agents can now hang out in their own space-faring MMO

    Hello fellow lurker-turned-registered user. "AI" is the new "gluten-free". It will be attached to every possible thing because the market will demand it. And I don't mean "AI is to tech what gluten-free was to milk" - I mean we should expect "AI-optimized free-range hens" to be printed on egg...
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    Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy

    Get the 9500 Xtreme Eagle edition or you'll regret it. The base 9500 only tows 8,000 lbs.
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    Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

    ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡° ) [X] Doubt