Good morning from Quick Shift, your source for daily news on the future of transportation. Check out the latest headlines below. — Shiraz Ahmed
Autonomous cars? No way: London city authorities announced self-driving cars won't be welcome in the city until after 2030. Yet some are already contemplating how Uber could take over the cities beleaguered public transit.
Musk goes down under Comic book supervillian (and Tesla CEO) Elon Musk received a permit to start exploratory digging under Washington, D.C., for his Hyperloop next-gen transportation system.
Quick hits
- Toyota's latest electric vehicle motor relies less on rare-earth metals, making it cheaper.
- Shady cobalt mines for EV batteries using child labor, Bloomberg reports.
- The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's latest study examines the usage and effectiveness of semiautonomous features such as adaptive cruise control have on overall traffic safety.
- Continental is scaling up its software engineering to deal with the coming wave of computer glitches.
- Here's why cops don't drive EVs.
- The latest Tesla fighter is the Aspark Owl Electric supercar.
- The hurdles of repairing autonomous vehicles.
- A state of the nation report on self-driving legislation.
- Tesla's cloud was hijacked to exploit cryptocurrencies.
Meet Dave Filipe, Ford's new powertrain boss, and he's not the same as the old powertrain boss
Marchionne collects $36 million stock award, $12 million in base pay, bonus
Lexus will debut UX crossover with taillamp fins
Kerrigan: Be yourself, work hard and you'll likely find success
Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of famed Italian supercar maker, dies in 1993
2018 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo: Agile, supple and abject absurdity
GM offers $2.2B debt-for-equity swap in return for S. Korea's support, report says
Meet Dave Filipe, Ford's new powertrain boss, and he's not the same as the old powertrain boss
Marchionne collects $36 million stock award, $12 million in base pay, bonus
Lexus will debut UX crossover with taillamp fins
Kerrigan: Be yourself, work hard and you'll likely find success
Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of famed Italian supercar maker, dies in 1993
2018 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo: Agile, supple and abject absurdity
GM offers $2.2B debt-for-equity swap in return for S. Korea's support, report says
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