Automotive
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Google self-driving unit Waymo picks Detroit factory site
Waymo will lease a now-closed American Axle & Manufacturing plant, so it can convert the vehicles, mostly Chrysler Pacifica minivans
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Statistics Canada reports wholesale sales up 0.3% in February
Wholesale sales gains were led by the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts and accessories subsector, which rose 9.5 per cent to $11.6 billion
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U.S. expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles
Parts in question are made by ZF-TRW installed in Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Fiat Chrysler vehicles
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5 reasons why autonomous cars aren’t coming anytime soon
Are we there yet? Researchers will need to overcome obstacles in the road before giving a green light on self-driving vehicles
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Toyota, SoftBank fund, Denso invest US$1B in Uber
The funds are earmarked for developing automated ridesharing services, Uber ATG
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Tesla wants to cut size of board from 11 directors to 7
The shakeup of the board is viewed as a move toward greater accountability to stakeholders
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Tesla CEO plans to hand the car keys to robots next year [UPDATED]
Without Lidar or three-dimensional mapping, the vehicles aren’t fully self-driving, say critics
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BMW adds nearly 185,000 vehicles to recall over fire risk
The recall expansion covers a dozen 3 Series, 5 Series and Z4 models from the 2006 model year
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Musk, SEC seek another week to reach deal in contempt case
Both sides say in a letter filed Thursday with a federal court in New York that they talked for over an hour and are still discussing an agreement
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Uber rolls out feature urging riders to ‘check your ride’
A push notification will be sent to riders reminding them to check the driver and vehicle
