Trouble at Silicon Valley Car Companies
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for two of Silicon Valley’s top car companies.
After a pedestrian was killed by one of Uber’s autonomous cars in Arizona, the company’s AV operations were suspended. Other driverless car companies are now weighing the consequences to the technology, and regulators are asking if we need to slow down real-world testing.
Tesla is dealing with two crashes of its own. The crash of a Model X is raising questions about autopilot mode, and its stock has crashed 25 percent this month as investors worry about Model 3 delivery problems.
We'll look at the latest for Uber and Tesla in this week's episode.
Then, we'll return to Washington. It was also a bad week for Trump, who didn’t get his cuts to energy programs in the latest federal budget. We’ll look at why the GOP is so out of step with the White House on clean energy cuts.
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| 0:44.0 | It's been a bad week for two of Silicon Valley's top car companies. |
| 0:53.0 | A pedestrian was killed by one of Uber's autonomous cars in Arizona, |
| 0:57.0 | and now the company's AV operations are suspended. |
| 1:00.0 | Other driverless car companies are weighing the consequences to the tech, and regulators are asking if we're going too fast. |
| 1:06.0 | Tesla is also dealing with two crashes of its own. |
| 1:09.0 | The crash of a Model X is raising questions about autopilot mode, and its stock has crashed 25% this month |
| 1:14.8 | as the company struggles to get cars to customers as promised will give updates on both. |
| 1:19.4 | It was a bad week for Trump too who got snubbed by Republicans in the latest budget. |
| 1:24.6 | He didn't get his wall, and he didn't get his cuts to clean energy programs. |
| 1:28.3 | We'll look at why the GOP is so out of step with the White House on Clean Energy cuts. |
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