Thanks, though Mercedes might be less likely to share their tech considering they have their own vans (and trucks too).

Didn’t know they got to that point already, but I think VW would want it’s own system and not license it from BMW. We’ll have to wait and see how fast they can realise their goals.

whatever gets put out by these companies will be a step above in Reliability and safety.

I expect nothing less, this has been true for many other things when comparing eu things to us things, but this argument would also mean nokia would eventually release an iPhone killer and we all know that didn’t happen either. Don’t get me wrong I’d really like vw to beat tesla, but they haven’t got anything riding on public roads yet afaik

Ikr, it’s really great they got the industry to create all of if in the US. Nobody can complain about tarrifs being exempted either now, it’s great.

Definitely

Streets ahead?

Let’s hope not, but I also read somewhere lidar has its problems too, not for the system itself but for tech surrounding it. Distorting camera’s or something. I’m not that technical. Europe can use a tech win, so if this is it I’m totally fine with it.

VW already has a buyer, the Uber taxi service company. The two firms signed an agreement in April for cooperation in the US. According to Senger, Uber plans to purchase up to 10,000 VW e-vans over the next ten years.

You can hate Uber for many things but them buying 10,000 units is definitely a nice foot in the door to the american market (which has a lot of money, which is required to go from cool idea to real product.

Not so sure about that. I mean vw is an actual car company so in that aspect they will easily deliver a superior product but i read nothing about the technology that’s gonna make it happen. Tesla’s can do quite a lot quite well already compared to any other commercially available car and vw is (like the rest of the European car industry) years behind on the software required to achieve real autonomous driving. I mean i’d really like this to succeed but wouldn’t call it a low bar.

It’s already a law for anybody born there. Not the otherwise they’ll bomb your home part, but the send money part for sure.

Thank God they’ll soon have a Trump phone to sell, imagine how lost they’d be without all that revenue compensating for these losses.

Considering manufacturers will all have to use the same software it might still be useful info to compare different models and different brands, because a similar amount of mAh doesn’t necessarily result in a similar battery life.

Love the image

I know but it is already in use ;)

Do they already have a name for Nato without US?

I love that, definitely will use this

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It’s OK gibraltar, we love you no matter what

I am trying to avoid using Google as a verb, turns out it’s harder than switching to a different search engine

Cristina Caffara, an economist and antitrust expert, says the hyperscalers have responded to this movement by deploying an “army of lobbyists” in Brussels.

At the press conference, Caffara said the lobbyists are “relentlessly” targeting senior figures in Brussels to derail digital sovereignty efforts in Europe. The panellists even speculated that the EU-backed digital sovereignty initiative, Gaia-X, had been “infiltrated” by tech companies seeking to sabotage the movement by overloading it with bureaucracy.

The hyperscalers are not deaf to Europeans’ concerns. Google and Microsoft, for instance, recently issued public statements designed to allay any worries about US hostilities; providers are building strictly EU-regulated data centres across Europe; and, earlier this year, Google launched its ‘cloud data boundary’, which gives customers more control over where data is stored and processed, and a ‘user data shelf’ for validating the security of apps built via that data boundary.

However, Frank Karlitschek, the CEO of Nextcloud, which supplies customers including France’s interior ministry and Amnesty International with open-source, self-hosted collaboration software, describes such moves from the hyperscalers as “sovereignty-washing”.

“[The hyperscalers] say they have hosting centres in Europe, so it’s all fine. But the Cloud Act states that if you’re a US organisation, you follow the US law, which means you need to give US agencies access to this data,” Karlitschek said at the press conference.

Is there such demand for/from Romania or is Bucharest a good hub?