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...Tu Le, founder of Sino Auto Insights, said the US still led China in several of the technologies underpinning key areas of autonomous driving including machine learning and sensors....
...Each supplier is assigned a score for geopolitical risk, identified in many pages of documents detailing the components they use in their machines....
...Lawmakers also cited messages that Mr Barrack sent to Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman and his Apollo counterpart Joshua Harris, without detailing any replies....
...“Ford has seemingly taken a step out of GM’s playbook to try to unlock value from their autonomous efforts,” RBC Capital Markets auto analyst Joseph Spak wrote in a research note....
...He added that the company had “leapfrogged” companies such as Audi, which is close to commercialising a less advanced driver-assistance technology known as Level 3....
...It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Google rewrote the future of the global auto industry seven years ago when it unveiled a driverless car in an advanced state of development....
...Auto components maker Delphi has also made a bold move into the market with its $450m purchase last month of nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle start-up based in Boston....
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...The market for anything more advanced remains to be proved, and many in the mobile gaming industry are sceptical that it exists....
...The group sold a $1bn stake two years ago in the same US auto finance business to a private equity consortium that included Warburg Pincus....
...AT&T rose 2.5 per cent to $26.59 and Verizon advanced 1.7 per cent to $29.56....
...General Motors advanced 14.7 per cent to $6.25 on reports that the hard-hit auto group was pushing for government aid to help a possible merger withChrysler....
...For example, the advanced data on orders for durable goods fell by 6.2 percent in October, the largest monthly decrease in two years....
...As consumer confidence fell and credit markets remained frozen, the lowest U.S. auto sales in more than 20 years put tremendous pressure on our cash position....
...Ford is seeking to recoup about $3bn for the two companies compared with the $2.7bn it paid for Land Rover in 2000, auto executives say....
...A downgrade to “sell” from Merrill Lynch pulled Advanced Micro Devices, the circuit maker, 3.7 per cent lower to $32.86....
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