January 11, 2025

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-10

This week, I explored the implications of drones on wheels and the rise of software-defined vehicles.

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🍪 + 🚘 The tech news stories that caught my eye this week were less about new chips in new cars and more about having to think of the implications of more drones on wheels in more places.

Techmeme: Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia's Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

By Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning developing their own driverless taxis years ago (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)

By Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Chipmaker NXP agrees to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625M in cash to build out its products for software-defined vehicle makers (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

By Cagan Koc / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over four reported crashes involving its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature (Reuters)

From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning developing their own driverless taxis years ago (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)

By Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

Here comes the software-defined vehicles buzzword variations and the “I, Robot” / “Minority Report” trope explainers.

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