Lucid built 2,954 cars in the third quarter, 38% fewer than in the second, against pledges of 45,000 driverless cars for Bolt and Uber. In Europe the harder limit is an EU-wide approval route that caps each vehicle type at 1,500 cars a year.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Uber is removing 3,300 roles, but the operating change is a depth limit that, at just under 30,000 employees, only works if the average manager carries more than four direct reports.
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Bolt aims to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads under a non-binding framework with no order and no date, while the only EU-wide approval route for a fully automated car allows 1,500 of a type a year.
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Idaho National Laboratory's review is funded by unnamed electric and autonomous vehicle companies, per TechCrunch's sources. Seven firms reported to be considering Hesai and RoboSense parts were unaware of it.
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Serve adds Grubhub, and sidewalk delivery quietly becomes a shared utility
With Uber Eats, DoorDash and now Grubhub all able to summon the same robots, Serve is betting the fleet is the asset. The unit economics are still unproven.
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- Adoption66
- Hype gap+24
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