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Tesla Cybercab with LiDAR, wow just wow 😍

Yes, NHTSA has authority under the Safety Act to issue FMVSS mandating minimum sensor types (e.g., LIDAR) for ADS vehicles if they deem it necessary for safety. They've chosen performance-based rules instead—vehicles must achieve safe detection/response outcomes, tech-agnostic. No current or planned LIDAR requirement. Given the forum's innovation focus and admin push to cut barriers for robotaxis, prescriptive hardware rules aren't expected.

The  next generation of FirstLight, our proprietary FMCW lidar, now detects objects at ~1,000 meters away (2x the distance of our current generation and the closest FMCW lidar competitor!).🎯 This is a game-changer for long-range, high-speed trucking. More range = a new standard for safety in the industry. ⚡

Nvidia has released a new video of CEO Jensen Huang taking a 2.5 hour ride across San Fransisco in a Mercedes using Nvidia's Alpamayo autonomous driving system. Jensen: "The two of us were just talking and enjoying San Francisco. This is the way transportation should be. 100% comfortable and 100% confident. Completely revolutionary."

$AUR: Only publicly listed company btw

A 1,000-mile journey, unlocked. 🔓 By deploying long-haul lanes such as Fort Worth to Phoenix, we’re providing "superhuman" benefits to our customers – delivering faster, safer, and further than ever before. This is the future of freight.

NEWS: The NHTSA will hold a national autonomous vehicle safety forum this Tuesday that will include ​the CEOs of self-driving companies Waymo, Zoox and Aurora. The Trump administration is ‌looking for ways to speed up deployment of robotaxis and address regulatory barriers. NHTSA is reviewing potential actions including "future guidance on the ​safe domestic development, testing, and deployment" of self-driving vehicles. The day-long session ⁠will also review the use of remote assistance in robotaxis and how regulators should ​assess robotaxi performance versus human-driven vehicles. NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison said last week that the agency ​wants to support innovation in self-driving vehicles because of the potential benefits to reducing crashes and extending mobility to some older Americans and people with disabilities. "We are taking a measured approach -- removing unnecessary, unintended ​barriers to this technology while maintaining strict safety oversight," Morrison said.