AVs

Devon Toews sold his 6,000-square-foot Belcaro mansion last month for $240,000 under its list price. The $3.75 million sale closed on Feb. 12. Last year, Towes signed a seven-year contract extension with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche. He listed the mansion on Jan. 11 for $3.99 million. Toews and his wife, Kerry, bought the mansion on the 800 block of South Steele Street in March 2021 for $2.9 million. The six-bedroom, five-bath home, constructed in 2020, has two fireplaces. The first-floor open floor plan includes a…

After watching its share price almost double in a week, Arm has further tapped into the demand for AI compute. The chip designer today announced a deal with Nuro, a US startup in the autonomous vehicle (AV) sector — a growing market for Arm. The partnership aims to accelerate the commercialisation of self-driving cars. Arm will bring its famed semiconductor IP to Nuro’s vehicles, starting with the startup’s delivery robots. With zero occupants inside, these AVs can fully focus on external road…

Devon Toews, who signed a seven-year contract extension with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche in October, listed his 6,185-square-foot Belcaro mansion on Jan. 11 for $4 million. Toews and his wife, Kerry, bought the 860 block S. Steele St. mansion for $2.9 million in March 2021. Constructed in 2020, the six-bedroom, five-bath home has two fireplaces. The open floor plan on the first floor includes a kitchen with an island, dining area, living room and office space. The second floor features a primary suite with a five-piece…

Hey, friends — welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the week in tech. If life’s gotten in the way of following the major stories on TC, don’t sweat it. You’ve come to the right place. In this edition, we cover the 19-year-old MIT dropout “replacing gunpowder” for the defense industry, as well as VanMoof, the e-bike darling, which paused sales as execs head for the exits. Elsewhere, robotaxi haters in San Francisco have been disabling AVs with traffic cones, Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched…

A decentralized group of safe streets activists in San Francisco realized they can disable Cruise and Waymo robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on a vehicle’s hood, and they’re encouraging others to do it, too. The “Week of Cone,” as the group is calling the now-viral prank on Twitter and TikTok, is a form of protest against the spread of robotaxi services in the city, and it appears to be gaining traction with residents who are sick of the vehicles malfunctioning and blocking traffic. The protest comes in the lead…

Connected vehicles, and especially AVs, are safer than vehicles driven by humans. In fact, 90% of motor vehicle accidents are due to human error.The term ‘connected car’ is a broad one; there are several arms to this rapidly evolving technology. In its simplest form, any car outfitted with internet accessibility is termed a connected car. In the Indian auto market, this term was first popularised by MG Motors when it launched the MG Hector. Hector’s badge on the rear…

<!----> Toyota has announced further development of THUMS (Total Human Model for Safety), its software programme for computer simulation and analysis of injuries resulting from vehicle crash impacts. The latest advances account for changes in people’s posture when using automated driving systems.…

Waymo One is Alphabet’s autonomous ride-hailing service, and work to upgrade the passenger experience is happening hand-in-hand with expanding availability. The latest Waymo autonomous vehicle (AV) improvements focus on the pickup experience and include a new melody. Waymo wants to make its autonomous service more inclusive and recently (via The Verge) rolled out a handful of features to improve the pickup experience for all.  To start with, the Waymo One app for Android and iOS is offering turn-by-turn…