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...The eurozone economy flatlined in the final quarter of last year, dragged down by a decline in German output....
...Bird Rides, which pioneered electric-scooter sharing in California, is in talks to buy Circ, a German rival that is led by one of Europe’s most prominent tech entrepreneurs....
...There was a protest at the Tesla stall of the motor show from a woman wearing a white T-shirt saying “brake malfunction” above a Tesla logo....
...Elon Musk’s meteoric rise may have seemed unstoppable in 2020, but the humble sand lizard has put the brakes on Tesla’s plans for a €4bn electric car factory in Germany....
...bankers say the celebrity entrepreneur’s stinging criticism of Beijing’s regulatory protocols was deemed unacceptable in Communist party circles and may have fuelled the decision by regulators to slam the brakes...
...To meet the new German requirements, Bird is having to deploy a custom scooter with indicator lights and multiple brakes....
...In reality, the German premium brand is set to overtake Tesla in the self-driving car race....
...“I tend to see the map as the ‘collective memory’ of all self-driving cars,” says Ralf Herrtwich, head of automotive maps at Here, which is mostly owned by German carmakers after a consortium bought the...
...800,000 people and dominates global sales of luxury cars has long been an object of national pride: not just a symbol of the country’s postwar industrial success, but more or less synonymous with Germany Inc...
...The pressure grew so great to maintain control of this technology that the five companies may have illegally crossed the line into collusion — according to allegations made in German weekly Der Spiegel last...
...Tesla was told by German regulators not to advertise its driver assistance system as “autopilot”. But the promise of such technology changes is enormous, not only for companies but for citizens....
...Brakes The shift from conventional to carbon brakes cut 907kg from the weight of the 747’s 16 braking systems, according to UTC Aerospace Systems....
...Regulators hit the brakes on capital outflows near the end of last year, fearing that too much of China’s forex reserves were flowing out of the country....
...What to do about incumbent companies calling for the brakes to be slammed on to protect them from green power incursions?...
...But in a sign of how hard it is to regulate a market where supply cannot keep up with demand, the brake isn’t working....
...Some still struggle to provide an email address for people to report flaws — and German carmakers in particular are very reluctant to run public vulnerability programmes, he says....
...The brake is meant to protect users and ensure that the app is not so packed with ads that they turn to ad blockers or a rival such as Snapchat....
...But though they are level-pegging in the current suite of features offered, the two German rivals are about to take a starkly different approach to the future of driving....
...Despite its investments, the German group, which sold a record 2.24m premium vehicles last year, said truly autonomous cars are not something customers are likely to see this decade....
...Ganymed Pharmaceuticals, a private German group, is also trialling a drug with chemo in patients with gastric cancer....
...Bond yields tumbled last week, with Japanese, British and German sovereign benchmarks setting record lows....
...The group also decided to concentrate on its larger stores and put the brakes on a roll-out of smaller outlets....
...According to France 24, Barbara Hendricks, the German environment minister, is due in Brussels tomorrow to express her concerns in person to Jan Jambon, the Belgian interior minister....
...Asda is to scrap the expansion of its click-and-collect service and put the brakes on the rollout of small stores as it seeks to revive flagging sales....
...Infineon also makes radar-based distance warning sensors, which cause the car to brake when the vehicle in front slows....
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