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...In the US, Griffin said he anticipated inflation would remain sticky unless the Federal Reserve was willing to accept higher unemployment to drive it down....
...“If a car can drive in Wuhan . . . I’m pretty sure it can drive in any other city in the world,” he said. Current Baidu executives declined to be interviewed....
...The Spanish lender hired Morgan Stanley M&A banker David Luwisch, former Jefferies industrials banker David Bradley and former Bank of America financial sponsors banker Andrew Greenwald....
One way to lower rates would be to add entertainment systems to show adverts
...A recruitment drive in Akron will double LTA’s total headcount to more than 400 people over the coming months....
...“I think we are past the worst in an economic sense . . . but we still have remaining uncertainty in terms of the anti-corruption drive.”...
...But the US’s main focus is on industrial companies in Russia, many of which are civilian companies that have switched to producing defence equipment under Putin’s drive to put the economy on a war footing...
...The buyout industry is confronting its toughest conditions in years as higher interest rates drive up the cost of buying companies and a sluggish market for initial public offerings and a slump in takeovers...
...“You make a brain, but you have to train that brain for six months to drive in Phoenix, and train that brain for two years to drive in Columbus, Ohio....
...Cruise maps the roads it drives by mixing road data collected by both cameras and lidar — laser-based sensors. Tesla has called lidar a “crutch”....
...As my dad would say on a long drive: “We’ll get there when we get there.”https://twitter.com/llsethj/status/1512960943805841410...
...What if the car goes rogue and drives into the Pacific? Driverless cars demand faith in tech. Luckily, San Francisco is just the city for that....
...“We aspire to drive anything that moves on public roads — buses, trucks, cars, whatever,” said Mr Krafcik. “We don’t want to be tied to a single form factor.”...
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Chart du jour: Prices spike The surge in energy prices is set to exert a “more protracted drag” than expected on the European economy this year and drive higher inflation, the European Commission said yesterday...
...Before Tesla, Lutz says GM’s engineers steadfastly refused to even believe that the kind of lithium ion batteries used in laptop computers could produce enough power to drive a car....
...Sufficient to power 40,000 homes, the company initially hopes to power data centres and other industrial sites....
...It later expanded further into chemicals, PVC pipes, irrigation equipment and other industrial supplies....
...Even if you co-drive correctly, with hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, it is more restful than driving yourself. That reduces fatigue, one of the main causes of highway accidents....
...The truck would be level 4 autonomous, meaning it could drive itself without human oversight, but only in predefined areas....
...These would convene senior officials, technology leaders and academics in closed-door meetings to drive concrete outcomes....
...The money should help Waymo develop its robotaxi service further and its ambition to be “the driver . . . able to drive just about anything”, as cited by Waymo chief John Krafcik....
...But it was earned in a distant sector: the industrial end of tech....
...Since Google launched its “moon shot project” a decade ago to create a fully driverless vehicle, the engineering challenge of making a robot drive more safely than a human has been the focus....
...In a bid to shorten the lengthy process of teaching cars to drive themselves, Waymo announced on Wednesday that it would make “the largest fully self-driving data set ever” freely available to the research...
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