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With HD Radar, Arbe Robotics Pits Price vs. Pride

With HD Radar, Arbe Robotics Pits Price vs. Pride

By Junko Yoshida (additional reporting by Jenn Baljko)

What’s at stake?
Arbe Robotics, a 2015 Israeli startup that went public this month through a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition team), seemed to have a lot going for it in recent years. Today, it might be at a crossroads. Arbe’s overreliance on its very-high-performance 4D imaging radar could deter it from securing a spot in a more immediate automotive market, one where Tier 1s demand designs that rely on “good enough” solutions.

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Pat Gelsinger in Munich

Intel, Chipmakers, and the Fear Card

By Bolaji Ojo

Intel Corp. CEO Pat Gelsinger wants the EU to “take control of its destiny” by securing access to critical semiconductor supplies. He has similarly embarked upon the same mission for the United States. The effort is admirable but also misleading and fatuous. Intel is a public enterprise, not the right arm of the U.S. government nor a “physician” assigned to help heal the broken or compromised semiconductor supply chain.

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U.S. Lawyers Perpetuate Regulation Myths at The Autonomous

U.S. Lawyers Perpetuate Regulation Myths at The Autonomous

By Junko Yoshida

What’s at stake?
Germany’s recently passed autonomous-vehicle regulations earned the country bragging rights as the first in the world to bring legal certainty to Level 4 AVs, in which automated driving features do not require human intervention.

Lawyers working for the U.S. AV industry, and those looking to score political points, maintain that delayed regulations in America could hamstring automakers in the global AV race. What’s really at stake, however, is public safety. Will AV rules under development in the United States come with enough muscle to help AV manufacturers raise public confidence in the long-term safety of driverless vehicles?

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Sneak Preview: Debunking Industry Narrative on AV Regulation

Sneak Preview: Debunking Industry Narrative on AV Regulation

By Phil Koopman

Too often, I’ve read documents or listened to panel sessions that rehash misleading or just plain incorrect industry talking points regarding autonomous vehicle standards and regulations. The current industry strategy seems to boil down to “Trust us, we know what’s best,” “Don’t stifle innovation,” and “Humans are bad drivers, so computers will be better.”

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Intel - That Name is More than a Game

That Name is More than a Game

By Ron Wilson

When Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger unveiled the company’s process roadmap in July, part of the discussion was a wholesale renaming of Intel’s future process nodes. Superficially, this might have seemed an obvious marketing trick to mitigate painful comparisons against TSMC or Samsung. But beneath the surface, the renaming reflects both a decades-old struggle and a global financial reality.

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The Romance of the Jalopy - Woody

The Romance of the Jalopy

By David Benjamin

A nagging issue that I noticed last month at AutoSens in Brussels, Rob Stead’s visionary annual conference on sensor technology for the “cars of the future,” is the gap between technology people and car guys. Even more confusing—perhaps to the very people creating the systems and devices that might, finally, foster a utopia of self-driving cars, trucks, buses and “Look, Ma, no hands!” Harley-Davidsons—is that some of the AutoSens crowd occupy both sides of the gulf.

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Can Machine Drivers Guess Right About Us Human Drivers?

Can Machine Drivers Guess Right About Us Human Drivers?

By Junko Yoshida

What’s at stake?
For both human and machine drivers, perception is hard. Even harder is prediction. The driver must make reasonable assumptions — guesses — about what other vehicles or pedestrians will do next, in order to forge a safe path through traffic. The question becomes: How can machine drivers guess right, based on what criteria?

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Unlocking Apple Car’s Supply Chain

Unlocking Apple Car’s Supply Chain

By Junko Yoshida

What’s at stake?
Phil Magney, founder of VSI Labs, often says that Tesla is “a proxy of the future vehicle.” What, then, will Apple Car become? Will it be Tesla on steroids, a safer and more secure Tesla, or just a more transparent version of Tesla?

The departure of Doug Field, who resigned as the head of Apple’s car project (codenamed Titan) and jumped ship to Ford Motor Co. earlier this month, generated a fresh round of speculation that the car project at Apple might be stalled. We disagree with that analysis.

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