After introducing the Arc brand a few years ago, Intel announced in China that cars with the GPUs could arrive “as soon as 2025.”
While it hasn’t specified which cars, a demo showed it running AAA games and a “new generation cockpit user interface (UI) that transforms vehicles into immersive mobile hubs supporting seven high-definition screens rendering 3D graphics and six-in vehicle cameras and interactive features.”
From Car Throttle to Donut, countless YouTube creators are fleeing. But is this a new trend or a tale as old as venture capital?
$1.5 billion to be exact, and only five months since the last major cash infusion of $1 billion. The money comes in the form of “$750 million of convertible preferred stock via private placement” and “a $750 million unsecured delayed draw term loan facility,” both from Ayar Third Investment, an affiliate of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The money has helped the cash-losing EV maker from heading down a similar path as some of its less financially stable peers.
A sad inevitability: a Cybertruck driver died in Texas early Monday morning after their truck left the roadway for an unknown reason and smashed into a concrete culvert, the local news station reports. The Cybertruck became engulfed in flames after the crash, complicating the victim’s identification. Tesla has sold at least 11,000 Cybertrucks since the vehicle’s release late last year, according to a recent recall report.
Tesla’s other vehicles have stellar safety ratings, but third party groups have yet to rate the Cybertruck, which has been hit with multiple recalls.
YouTuber WhistlinDiesel could have taken a more conservative approach to his test of the Cybertruck, but instead we get a balls-to-the-wall, absolutely over-the-top series of stunts and bad decisions that practically leaves the electric truck a pile rubble at the end. Tune in for the evisceration of the Cybertruck’s tow hitch, stay for the part where he straps C4 to the tailgate.
I tend to agree with Jalopnik’s Andy Kalmowitz’s take that people complain too much about being distracted by all the new tech in their cars. You can see it in the surveys of new vehicle owners, where infotainment ranks high among the many hassles. But automakers are getting better about consolidating information on the main screen, and the reduction of hard buttons is certainly cleaner to look at.
Maybe, just maybe, the real distraction isn’t the touchscreens or the ambient lightning. Could it be the pocket computers we take with us everywhere?
The family of a motorcyclist killed by a Tesla Model 3 driver using Autopilot is suing the company for knowingly releasing “defective and inadequate” software, Reuters says. Its the latest in a growing volume of wrongful death suits targeting Tesla’s driver assist features. The company has fought some, settled others, so how it responds to this one remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, another motorcyclist was killed last April by a Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving.
