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| Volvo won’t charge extra for its upcoming electric vehicles with lidar sensors Posted: 24 Jun 2021 06:00 AM PDT  Volvo plans on offering the lidar — and artificial intelligence-powered safety features — of its upcoming electric vehicle as standard, but the Swedish automaker plans on charging extra for its semi-autonomous systems, like the hands-free Highway Pilot. Volvo's fully electric successor to the XC90 SUV, to be revealed in 2022, will have two new components that have never appeared on a Volvo vehicle before: a lidar sensor produced by Luminar and an onboard "autonomous driving computer" powered by video game hardware manufacturer Nvidia. Those two pieces of hardware will help enhance Volvo's traditional safety features, like automatic emergency braking and blindspot detection, before the company is ready to start rolling out more...  |
| The chip shortage will likely get worse before it gets better Posted: 23 Jun 2021 03:35 PM PDT  One of tech's biggest problems in the past few months has been due to one of its smallest components: chips. Months into the shortage, the effects have spread far beyond the difficulty of buying an Xbox Series X or PS5. Car companies are being hit the worst, and even home appliances might start to see issues with supply. Earlier this year, companies expected to have supply chains sorted and products more consistently back on shelves by summer — but June is nearly over and there's seemingly no end in sight. And with the upcoming slate of big tech releases and the holiday shopping season coming up, expect things to get worse before they get better. "We had thought probably six or seven months ago, like everybody else, that it would be...  |
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