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Companies operating across the state of Texas—including several in North Texas—have been recognized in the TxN 20 for their leadership in conservation & sustainability. [Photo: Business Wire]
Texan by Nature Announces the 2024 Texan by Nature 20
by Lance Murray | Oct 24, 2024
TxN 20 recognizes the best and most innovative work in conservation coming from businesses based or operating in Texas. Texan by Nature Founder and former First Lady Laura Bush called the honorees "pioneers, collaborators, and changemakers."
by David Seeley |
Oct 3, 2024
With Cruise robotaxis already being tested in Dallas, more autonomous innovation is on the way to the city in 2024 and 2025 via a partnership between Uber and Austin-based Avride. Uber and Uber Eats customers may have the option to select a robotaxi for their next ride across town or a sidewalk robot to roll their favorite restaurant order home.
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![A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cruise-robotaxi_Dallas-970x464-1-360x203.jpg)
by David Seeley |
Jul 24, 2024
After a months-long pause following a pedestrian collision in San Francisco last October, Cruise robotaxis are being tested once again in Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix—without paying customers and with a "safety driver" in the car, the New York Times reports.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 9, 2023
Last month, Cruise began operating its driverless robotaxis on Dallas streets without a human in front, in a run-up to commercial launch. After pausing the process in late October, the company has now issued a voluntary software recall of its entire driverless fleet. The moves stem from an incident in San Francisco on October 2 and the company's response to it.
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Cruise robotaxis have begun testing in Dallas without a human in the front seat. [Photo: Cruise]
Cruise Robotaxis Are Coming to Dallas as Part of Texas Expansion
by David Seeley | May 11, 2023
Earlier this month, we told you that San Francisco-based Cruise may be expanding its robotaxi ridehailing service to Dallas. Now Co-Founder and CEO Kyle Vogt has tweeted that Cruise "will go live in Houston and Dallas in the next few months. Supervised autonomous driving will start in Houston in a few days, with Dallas to follow soon after." Here's how you can get on the waitlist.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2023
If you haven't seen Martin Scorcese's 1976 film "Taxi Driver," better catch it soon. A robotaxi service in San Francisco may one day make real-live taxi drivers obsolete—and the next showing of this phenomenon just might happen in Dallas. Cruise, a self-driving car startup that launched in 2013 and was acquired by General Motors in 2016, says it began offering "fully driverless service" in its robotaxis to public riders in San Francisco last January. According to IoT News, Cruise may have its eyes on Dallas for its next robotaxi service location.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 17, 2023
Last month, the General Motors Arlington Assembly plant set a 70-year monthly production record in March by producing more than 34,000 vehicles. Now a worker at the plant is featured in a company video campaign called "Earn a Living. Make a Life."
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 10, 2023
The record of 34,000 vehicles was achieved with three shifts working 27 days, the company said. The final number broke the previous monthly record set in March 2022. "Our celebration of this milestone is not just about the number, it's about the people who build consistent quality into every SUV that we produce," said the plant's executive director, John Urbanic.
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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV [Photo: GM]
Connected Driving: General Motors, AT&T to Equip Future Vehicles With 5G
by Alex Edwards | Aug 19, 2021
AT&T and GM want to set the benchmark for automotive connectivity by bringing 5G connectivity to select model year 2024 vehicles.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Sep 22, 2020
Farooq will also join the Board of Directors and be the GM of Products at the Texas-based startup. The move is expected to set Hypergiant up for accelerated growth.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2018
From needles in 1785 in Germany to auto parts in 2018 at its Garland facility, Kirchhoff shows that innovation and adaptation can help a company stick around.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Feb 10, 2017
Texas has more than 20,000 megawatts of wind power capacity, nearly one-fourth of the total capacity in the country.
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Photo: Michael Samples
GM Adds New Robots to Assembly Plant in Arlington
by Nicholas Sakelaris | Jan 11, 2017
The plant debuted new robotic carts that follow a predetermined path to deliver parts to the line.
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by Nealie Sanchez |
Nov 21, 2016
General Motors is reducing it's carbon footprint by harnessing wind energy for use in DFW locations.
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