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- Audi’s Grandsphere concept car is another luxurious living room on wheels
- This chainless drive system could revolutionize e-bike designs
- The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot
- Workhorse accused of fraud and is facing an SEC investigation
| Audi’s Grandsphere concept car is another luxurious living room on wheels Posted: 02 Sep 2021 10:30 AM PDT  Automakers love concept cars that tease a future in which very rich people ride around in autonomous vehicles that look like luxurious living spaces. The latest is Audi's Grandsphere, a spacious electric sedan with an interior that looks like it was designed by a Kardashian. The car is designed to be adjustable based on the preferred driving style. If you want the car to drive itself, the steering wheel and pedals retract, leaving you sitting in a minimally designed living room setting with wood trim and wool textures. Instead of a screen, the car's operating system is projected on the surface of the wood dashboard under the windshield. And when you're ready to drive yourself, the manual controls simply appear.  |
| This chainless drive system could revolutionize e-bike designs Posted: 02 Sep 2021 05:15 AM PDT  We don't often write about bicycle components, but it's not everyday that an innovation like the Schaeffler Free Drive is announced for pedal-assisted e-bikes. The so-called "bike-by-wire" system, first spotted by Electrek, dispenses with the need to string a chain or belt between the pedals and wheel hub. It's an all-electric drive system that allows for entirely new bicycle designs with fewer moving parts. The Free Drive system works by converting the rider's pedaling power into electrical energy via a small generator housed between the pedals. It then delivers this energy to the rear wheel (or wheels) via cables strung inside or outside the frame of the bike, rather than sending it mechanically through a chain or belt. Excess energy...  |
| The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot Posted: 01 Sep 2021 03:10 PM PDT  Crossing city streets filled with SUV drivers in a hurry is tricky for any pedestrian, but what about a robot that's less than two feet tall? Starship Technologies is flooding college towns with autonomous electric delivery bots that trundle goods to your location in their locked storage compartment. While the safety of human pedestrians around large vehicles with autonomous capabilities is still being debated, this time, the roles were reversed. As shown in a video posted to TikTok by rach,ipsa, even a couple of lights plus cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors, and neural networks weren't enough for this robot to avoid getting clipped by a Ford Escape.
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| Workhorse accused of fraud and is facing an SEC investigation Posted: 01 Sep 2021 11:05 AM PDT  EV startup Workhorse has been accused of touting fake preorders, accounting fraud, and hiding a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation from its investors in a new report published by short-selling research firm Fuzzy Panda. The report also contains allegations that Workhorse's new electric vans are already breaking down for customers like Ikea. Workhorse announced just last month that it already needs to redesign the new C-1000 van based on early feedback, though the company said it was because customers wanted more payload capacity. The company also named a new CEO at the time, Rick Dauch, who came from automotive supplier Delphi, while its general counsel and vice president of finance announced they were leaving. The report...  |
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