#detroit become tesla

[prstarrr]

i think they'd get along. detroit become tesla anyone?

[onesomewhatpeevedwasp]

love how i realized that elon musk presented robots was of a TikTok . A TikTok of a person proclaiming that they would like to fuck the robot.

I think we should do that and make so much gay trans porn of his robots, i think he would combust.

[hexjulia]

i wasn't going to read the elon musk biography anyway but the sam kriss burn review was pretty funny.

also interesting:

"Musk is often credited with popularizing the electric car. He didn’t. In fact, the electric car was popularized by the California Air Resources Board, which issued a zero-emissions vehicle mandate in 1990, essentially ordering car manufacturers to start producing electric cars. Eventually, this was watered down into a more market-friendly solution: manufacturers could go on producing gas-powered cars as long as they bought enough Zero-Emissions Vehicle credits from a company making electric ones. As soon as Musk took over Tesla, it became essentially a ZEV credit farm. The point wasn’t to make a profit selling cars, which the company didn’t achieve until 2020; it was to print unholy amounts of ZEVs, which could then be sold to the big carmakers in Detroit. This means that every Tesla sold essentially represents a subsidy for someone else’s fossil-fuel-burning car. For much of the company’s history, ZEVs and similar government programs represented a great deal of Tesla’s income: they were losing money on every car they sold but making money on the credits. You get a shitty car that sets itself on fire; Musk gets a fully exchangeable license to emit carbon. Sometimes, he would resort to outright fraud. In 2001, California introduced a class of ZEV credit for cars that could charge up to 95 percent of their battery in under fifteen minutes.

In 2013, Musk announced that he would set up a network of battery-swap stations, allowing Tesla drivers to recharge their cars instantaneously. Suddenly, every Tesla qualified for the “fast refueling” ZEV class; the exact same cars represented nearly twice as many credits as they had the year before. But the network never materialized. Tesla probably made nearly one hundred million dollars in battery-swap credits without actually performing a single swap.

None of this, it goes without saying, makes it into Isaacson’s book.

This is why I said that Elon Musk is the name we’ve given to a certain mass delusion. The man is the repository of our dreams: of space travel, of becoming rich, the fantasy of the autistic video-game-playing nerd who defies all the bullies and becomes the most important person on the planet. He is a monster made of other people’s money and other people’s cathexes."

[mariacallous]

Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the Big Three US carmakers. Yet the influence of Musk and his non-unionized company Tesla have been everywhere since the United Auto Workers called the strike last week. In some ways, Tesla—the world’s most valuable automaker by market capitalization—set the whole thing in motion.

Tesla’s pioneering electric vehicles kicked off a new era that has turned the entire auto industry on its head. In a scramble to compete with Tesla and make that transition, the legacy automakers targeted by the current strike, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, have each pledged billions in global investment and have begun dramatically restructuring their operations. For workers, the “green jobs” being created can be scarcer and worse paying. Electric vehicle powertrains have many fewer moving parts than conventional gas-powered ones, and so they require 30 percent fewer vehicle assembly hours, according to one estimate. Plants that make EV batteries are generally outside the core, unionized auto supply chain. The United Auto Workers has seen a dramatic drop in membership due to jobs moving outside the US—it lost 45 percent of its members between 2001 and 2022. A future with more electric vehicles could mean fewer union jobs overall. “This strike is about electrification,” says Mark Barrott, an automotive analyst at the Michigan-based consultancy Plante Moran.

The new assembly plants that the legacy automakers need to pull off the transition have been stood up mostly in US states hostile to union organizing, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. And because many of these plants are joint ventures between automakers and foreign battery companies, they are not subject to previous union contracts.

The UAW did not respond to a request for comment, but UAW president Shawn Fain told CNBC last week that the electric transition can’t leave workers behind. “Workers deserve their share of equity in this economy,” he said.

Tesla’s rise over recent years has also put ever-ratcheting pressure on the legacy automakers to cut costs. Including benefits, Musk’s non-unionized EV company spends $45 per hour on labor, significantly less than the $63 per hour spent in the Big Three, according to industry analysts.

Musk’s willingness to upend auto manufacturing shibboleths has also forced his legacy competitors to seek new efficiencies. Tesla led the way in building large-scale car casts, stamping out very large metal components in one go rather than making a series of small casts that have to be joined together. And it pioneered an automotive chassis building process that can be easily adapted to produce different makes and models.

Tesla’s Silicon Valley roots also helped it become the first automaker to envision the car as a software-first, iPhone-like “platform” that can be modified via over-the-air updates. And the company aims to automate more of its factories, and extract more of the materials it needs to build its batteries itself.

Tesla’s novel production ideas could soon lead the company to put even more pressure on legacy automakers. Musk said earlier this year that Tesla plans to build a new, smaller vehicle that can be made for half the production cost of its most popular (and cheapest) vehicle, the Model 3.

Musk says a lot of things, and many don’t come to pass. (The world is still waiting for the 1 million Tesla robotaxis promised by the end of 2020.) But Tesla has been disruptive enough to leave legacy automakers, including Detroit’s Big Three, “in a quest for capital,” says Marick Masters, who studies labor and workplace issues at Wayne State University's School of Business. Detroit’s automakers have made good money in the past decade—some $250 billion in profits—but also paid a significant chunk of it out in dividends. Pressure from Tesla and the EV transition it catalyzed has left them feeling as if they need every penny they can corral to keep afloat as the industry changes.

“They have little money to concede for union demands,” says Masters. The UAW’s wants include significantly higher wages, especially for workers who have joined the companies since their Great Recession and bankruptcy-era reorganizations, which left some with less pay and reduced pension and health benefits.

So far, the UAW has shown little patience for the idea that the automakers it is pressuring are cash-strapped and under competitive pressure. “Competition is a code word for race to the bottom, and I'm not concerned about Elon Musk building more rocket ships so he can fly into outer space and stuff,” UAW president Fain told CNBC last week when asked about pressure from Tesla. He has argued that production workers should receive the same pay raise received by auto executives over recent years.

When automakers have taken the opposite tack, insisting that they’re well capitalized and making plans to put them ahead of the electric car maker—well, that set up conditions for this strike too. The three American automakers are forecasted to make $32 billion in profits this year, a slight dip from last year’s 10-year high. “The more they toot their own horns about profitability, the more the union looks at them and says, ‘We want our rightful share,’” says Masters.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment, but Musk has, in typical fashion, chimed in. He posted on X last week to compare working conditions at his companies with the competition, apparently seeking to turn the dispute he helped foment into a recruiting pitch. “Tesla and SpaceX factories have a great vibe. We encourage playing music and having some fun,” he wrote. “We pay more than the UAW btw, but performance expectations are also higher.” A UAW attempt to organize Tesla workers in 2017 and 2018, as the company struggled to produce its Model 3, failed. The National Labor Board ruled that Tesla violated labor laws during the organizing drive; the carmaker has appealed the decision.

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Monday, September 18, 2023

Americans broadly support military strikes in Mexico, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Reuters) About half of Americans support sending U.S. military personnel into Mexico to fight drug cartels, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, though there is less backing for sending troops without Mexico’s approval. The findings show broad public support for calls by most major candidates in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination contest to send special forces into Mexico, the U.S.’s biggest trading partner, or conducting missile or drone strikes there. Some of the candidates have said they would be prepared to send military forces without first receiving permission from the Mexican government. With the United States experiencing a dramatic rise in overdose deaths related to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, tamping down the flow of narcotics from Mexico has become a major theme among Republicans. Almost 80,000 Americans died from opioid-related overdoses in 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, with fentanyl being the primary culprit.

Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike (NYT) A battle between Detroit carmakers and the United Auto Workers union, which escalated on Friday with targeted strikes in three locations, is unfolding amid a once-in-a-century technological upheaval that poses huge risks for both the companies and the union. The strike has come as the traditional automakers invest billions to develop electric vehicles while still making most of their money from gasoline-driven cars. The negotiations will determine the balance of power between workers and management, possibly for years to come. That makes the strike as much a struggle for the industry’s future as it is about wages, benefits and working conditions. The established carmakers are trying to defend their profits and their place in the market in the face of stiff competition from Tesla and foreign automakers. Workers are trying to defend jobs as manufacturing shifts from internal combustion engines to batteries. Because they have fewer parts, electric cars can be made with fewer workers than gasoline vehicles. A favorable outcome for the U.A.W. would also give the union a strong calling card if, as some expect, it then tries to organize employees at Tesla and other nonunion carmakers like Hyundai, which is planning to manufacture electric vehicles at a massive new factory in Georgia.

Guatemala’s president-elect says he’s ready to call people onto the streets (AP) President-elect Bernardo Arévalo plans to call Guatemalans into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office, he said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. It would be Arévalo’s first such request since winning the election Aug. 20. Since his landslide victory, the attorney general’s office has continued pursuing multiple investigations related to the registration of Arévalo’s Seed Movement party, and alleged fraud in the election. International observers have said that is not supported by evidence. Arévalo said he has tried his own legal maneuvers to stop those who want to keep him from power, but now it’s necessary for the people to come out to the streets to support him. Arévalo, a progressive lawmaker and academic, shocked Guatemala by making it into an Aug. 20 presidential runoff in which he beat former first lady Sandra Torres by more than 20 points.

Ukraine’s Crimea attacks seen as key to counter-offensive against Russia (BBC) This week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles. Estimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014? Crimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry estimates that some 32,000 Russian troops were stationed in Crimea ahead of Russia’s February 2022 invasion. Russian nuclear weapons are reportedly deployed there as well. “[Ukraine’s] strategy has two main goals,” says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv’s Centre for Military and Legal Studies. “To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol.” In other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south.

Three Neighbors of Ukraine Ban Its Grain as E.U. Restrictions Expire (NYT) Hours after the European Union ended a temporary ban on imports of Ukrainian grain and other products to five member nations, three of them—Poland, Hungary and Slovakia—defied the bloc and said they would continue to bar Ukrainian grain from being sold within their borders. As Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters, has struggled to ship its grain because of Russia’s invasion, the European Union has opened up to tariff-free food imports from the country, a move that had the unintended consequence of undercutting prices and hurting farmers in several countries in the east of the European Union. As part of a deal meant to protect those countries, the bloc allowed some grain to transit through them, but prohibited domestic sales. Brussels’ decision to let that deal expire at midnight on Friday revived an issue that has threatened European Union unity on support for Ukraine. The Hungarian agriculture minister, Istvan Nagy, announced an extended ban that would include more products in a Facebook post early Saturday morning, saying that “we will protect the interests of the farmers.” On Friday, Poland’s president ordered that the ban be kept in place and Slovakia’s ministry of agriculture also announced a continuation of the ban, underlining that it didn’t apply to transit through the country.

Afghan Taliban Detain 18, Including American, on Charges of Preaching Christianity (VOA) Afghanistan’s Taliban have detained 18 staffers, including an American, from a nonprofit group for allegedly preaching Christianity. The Afghan-based International Assistance Mission (IAM) confirmed Friday that Taliban authorities had twice raided its office in central Ghor province this month and taken away the staff. They were taken into custody on charges of “propagating and promoting Christianity” in Afghanistan, a spokesman said. The IAM says on its website that the nonprofit group has been working in Afghanistan only to improve lives and build local health, community development and education capacity. “We are a partnership between the people of Afghanistan and international Christian volunteers, and we have been working together since 1966.”

U.S. and China Expand Global Spy Operations (NYT) As China’s spy balloon drifted across the continental United States in February, American intelligence agencies learned that President Xi Jinping of China had become enraged with senior Chinese military generals. Mr. Xi was not opposed to risky spying operations against the United States, but American intelligence agencies concluded that the People’s Liberation Army had kept Mr. Xi in the dark until the balloon was over the United States. When Mr. Xi learned of the balloon’s trajectory and realized it was derailing planned talks with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, he berated senior generals for failing to tell him that the balloon had gone astray, according to American officials briefed on the intelligence. The episode threw a spotlight on the expanding and highly secretive spy-versus-spy contest between the United States and China. The balloon crisis, a small part of a much larger Chinese espionage effort, reflects a brazen new aggressiveness by Beijing in gathering intelligence on the United States as well as Washington’s growing capabilities to collect its own information on China. The C.I.A. and the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency have set up new centers focused on spying on China. U.S. officials have honed their capabilities to intercept electronic communications, including using spy planes off China’s coast. The spy conflict with China is even more expansive than the one that played out between the Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War, said Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director.

Villagers survived Morocco’s earthquake but lost nearly everything else (Washington Post) By all accounts, life in this village in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains was simple and good, even if it was rarely easy. Families had lived for generations in the small cluster of houses surrounded by olive and nut trees, which generated a third of the village’s income. Money from sons and daughters who grew up and moved to cities provided the rest. When a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook the region on Sept. 8, Tiniskt was decimated in a matter of seconds. More than 50 of its 330 residents died—there was no time to wash and bury them properly. Everyone knew each of the dead. But the survivors have each other. They have spent the past week in blue, government-provided tents. On a recent morning, women ladled out milk porridge from communal pots for breakfast. Men parceled out equal portions of donated goods for each family. Boys played soccer in the dirt. Toddlers nestled into adults’ laps—it didn’t matter whose. On Thursday, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI announced an aid package to help people rebuild their homes. The villagers in Tiniskt—used to relying on each other—weren’t waiting around. A local association affixed solar lights to wooden poles to illuminate the central road. A young man collected plastic to construct a shower. Starting over was a daunting task, one man said. But it their only choice.

Adventure tourism (NYT) In 2001, a British man named Tom Morgan decided to host an extreme car race. It would start in Britain and end in what he thought was the world’s most difficult destination for most people to reach: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, more than 5,500 miles away. He called it the Mongol Rally. Participants had to drive the worst car they could find, avoid any planning and have as much fun as possible. Only six cars raced the first year. But interest grew as people began to talk about the rally online. “It’s gone ballistic,” Morgan said. More than 2,000 teams are on the wait-list to join the next Mongol Rally. The growing popularity of the race is one example of interest in trips to remote destinations. Adventure travel companies and insurance providers are reporting record sales this year. Companies say their clients are skipping Bali or Santorini in favor of destinations with less tourism infrastructure. The number of visitors to Antarctica has more than tripled in the last decade. Nepal granted a record number of permits to climb Mount Everest this year. And car rental companies in Mongolia sold out of SUVs this summer.

[kin-one-kin-all]

About The Mod

My name is Mod Shaun, Mod Stefan or MS.

Please refer to me with he/him/his, it/it/its cy/cyb/cyber, glitch/glitch/glitches or [redacted]/[redacted]/[redacted]s

I am the median subsystem host of a traumagenic system. We're white and an adult, both bodily as also in headspace.

I am an aromantic gay trans man.

We're fictive heavy.

I use singular and plural first person pronouns interchangeably.

(shortened) Kinlist:

Otherkin

Shapeshifter

Android

Fictionalter

Dragonborn

Taranatula

Fictive parts

Shaun Hastings (Assassin's Creed)

Elijah Miles (Assassin's Creed)

Hiccup (How To Train Your Dragon [movies])

Captain Blake (Mr Hurley Band Lore)

Boromir (Lord of The Rings)

James Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes, AU/adaptation kin)

Basil Hallward (The Picture of The Dorian Gray)

Maxwell Roth (Assassin's Creed: Syndicate)

The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Introjects within our main system

James Norrington (Pirates of The Carribbean, fanfic sourced)

John Nolan (The Rookie)

Wesley Evers (The Rookie)

James Murray (The Rookie)

Geralt (The Witcher Netflix)

Ciri (The Witcher Netflix)

Agent Smith (The Matrix)

Viktor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

The Captain (BBC Ghosts)

Gavin Reed (Detroit: Become Human)

Viggo Grimborn (Dragons: Race To The Edge)

Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Crowley (Good Omens)

Aziraphale (Good Omens)

The Master (Doctor Who)

The roach from this video (internet/meme introject)

Nikola Tesla (factive)

Ben (IRL factive)

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[Detroit Electric auto on promotional tour through mountains from Seattle to Mt. Rainier] / Cress-Dale Photo Co., Crary Bldg, Seattle.

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We are currently mulling the idea of buying an electric car (emphatically it will not be a Tesla which simply trades one kind of toxic pollution for support of another), so I thought this LC photo was worth posting. Amazing how different the world would be if the oil cartel, and it was a cartel created after the monopoly of Standard Oil was slightly crushed by a 1911 court decision, had not prevailed and electric cars had become the norm. It was a technological possibility, but gasoline powered automobiles came to be the almost exclusive automotive form thanks to the near monopolies in energy sources and and slightly later the manufacture of vehicles. The consequence of monopoly capitalism at its worst!

[aftongiulien]

Soooo i saw you like a lot of Fandoms,can you please tell US who's your husband/favourite from every fandom? Please i'm so corious and i wanna see what's your taste in man.

Ohhhhh i gotcha anon,i gotcha, i love this idea, plus mostly my taste in man May Be

,(this a joke,this Is not meant ti hurt anyone and i'm Sorry if It does)

family issues or mental issues

soooo h-here's the list with all the Fandoms

Demon Slayer

Douma (i alredy feel the hate coming), akaza, gyomei

Record of ragnarock,

Jack the ripper (Everyone knows this), Buddha, Tesla (my beloved man of science)

Jujutsu kaisen

Nanami,gojo, mahito

Death note

L, lawlight

Naruto/Naruto Shippuden.

Not anymore into this fandom but, hashirama gaara, kabuto

Attack on titan.

Levi

Golden kamuy

MY BELOVED OGATA,(Mommy issues man),koito

Toilet bound Hanako kun.

Tsuchigomori

Lupin the III

GOEMON

Tokyo revengers.

DRAKEN, baji, rindou (bonten),ran, kokonoi,

My Hero academia.

Aizawa, iida

Detroit become Human :

Connor, Markus, Ralph

Genshin impact:

Zhongli, venti, kaeya,

And yupppp that's all

Id you have any other question Just ask me

[gplayr]

Elon Musk's Tesla Optimus Brings Us One Step Nearer to Detroit: Turn into Human Tesla simply unveiled the ‘Optimus’ robotic, a helpful humanoid companion that may carry out a variety of day-to-day actions. It will possibly stroll your canine, water your crops, serve your dinn... https://blog.gplayr.com/elon-musks-tesla-optimus-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-detroit-become-human/

[hacialikara]

Detroit: Become Human gerçek oluyor: Tesla, insansı robot üretmeye başlıyor!

Elon Musk, CEO’su olduğu elektrikli araç üreticisi Tesla’nın önümüzdeki yıldan itibaren insansı robotlar üretmeye başlayacağını duyurdu. Musk, bu robotların öncelikle Tesla’nın kendi kullanımında olacağını ve 2026 yılında diğer şirketler için seri üretime geçileceğini belirtti. Tesla’nın yeni hamlesi: İnsansı robotlar Elon Musk, sosyal medya platformu X üzerinden yaptığı açıklamada “Tesla,…

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The Future of Transportation - Hyperloop

Whether it’s flying taxis, hypersonic passenger jets or vacuum-sealed tubes that shoot people at 760 miles per hour, dramatic changes are on the horizon for transportation. Some of these innovations may seem like they’re light-years away – but many are in design, testing or just a few regulatory steps from reality.

One such innovation is the hyperloop – a system that uses magnetic levitation and electrical propulsion to transport passengers or cargo at high speeds within techogle.co sealed, low-pressure tubes. Designed by Space-X founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the futuristic train would reduce journey times between cities from hours to minutes.

The idea is to mimic the experience of an airplane taking off and landing. This means that passengers in pods will be subject to a few seconds of airplane-takeoff levels of unease as the vehicle accelerates and decelerates. It is hoped that the acceleration will last no more than two minutes, meaning most of the time people will simply be riding along in their pods.

Aside from reducing travel time, the technology could also have an environmental impact. Using an electric propulsion and a near-vacuum inside the technology news tube reduces air resistance significantly, which in turn cuts down on energy consumption. This, in turn, cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil and other fossil fuels.

As such, the technology is poised to make a significant contribution towards tackling climate change and other global challenges. But it will be a challenge to convince the public of this. Some will see it as a risky mode of transportation, while others will be skeptical of the claims made by its proponents.

In addition to the obvious technical and engineering obstacles, there are other issues that will need to be addressed. For example, it will be important to have a plan for dealing with emergency situations and evacuations. This will be a major challenge, given that the tubes are sealed and there is no air outside of them.

Other practical concerns include the cost of the technology and how it will be financed. The price of constructing a hyperloop will vary greatly depending on the destination and the route. And, as with any new infrastructure project, it will be crucial to find a viable business model that can sustain the investment.

Despite these challenges, proponents of the technology remain confident that hyperloops will become a reality. They will transform transportation – from ordering goods from a factory in Detroit to receiving them in New York the same day, to traveling in pods that zoom between cities at jet-like speeds.

Whether or not this vision becomes a reality will ultimately depend on the ability of companies to deliver on their promises and overcome the hurdles that lie in their path. For this reason, it is important to understand the technological trends that are influencing transportation and to keep an eye out for future innovations.

[lboogie1906]

Linda Johnson Rice (born March 22, 1958) in Chicago to John and Eunice Johnson. Her father in 1942 founded Johnson Publishing Company. She wanted to be an integral part of her father’s business and began training in the fashion department at age seven by taking notes during business meetings and reviewing her father’s incoming and outgoing mail.

She attended USC and graduated with a BA in Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication. She was involved in the Ebony Fashion Fair, which allowed her to travel to Italy and France to choose gowns and models. She directed the shows. She became VP of Johnson Publishing Company and started work on the syndicated television show Ebony/ Jet Showcase. She received an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She became President and COO of Johnson Publishing, until her promotion to CEO, becoming the first African American female CEO among the 100 largest Black-owned companies in the US. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Women of Power award from the National Urban League, and the Tower of Power Award of the Trumpet Awards, as well as being named one of Chicago’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

She has served as a board member for the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Women’s Board for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Board of Director for Continental Bank Corporation, Magazine Publishers of America, GrubHub Inc., Tesla Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, USC, the Magazine Publishers Association, the Northwestern Memorial Corporation, The Advisory Board for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Women’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Founding Council of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

She became a board member and returned as CEO at Ebony Media Operations in 2017 but severed her ties and resigned from all positions in September 2019.

She married S. Andre Rice (1984) and the couple had one daughter. She married to former Detroit Lions Running Back Mel Farr (2004-2009). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth

[marklakshmanan]

They eat Tesla

[otoseyir]

Michigan becoming a hub for artificial intelligence inventions

Michigan has the largest number of artificial intelligence and machine learning patents issued in the Midwest since 2010 with the Detroit area ranking among the top nine regions for innovation across the country, according to a new report. The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metropolitan area had 896 AI patents issued, making it the ninth-most innovative U.S. metro, according to CommercialCafe, a commercial real estate Internet listing service. While Silicon Valley in California far surpasses any other metro area for AI patents, metro Detroit held its own on the list largely because of the presence of the automotive industry and related suppliers, in addition to the growing startup network in Detroit, the report said. "Because the U.S. is home to several global leaders in both automotive and key automation technologies, markets like the Detroit metro area are intriguing to both investors and innovators worldwide," the October report said. "With nearly 900 AI and ML patents at the close of 2022, the Detroit MSA ranked as the ninth-most innovative metro in the U.S. — and continues to show that the Motor City inventive spirit remains strong." The companies topping the list of AI/ML patents were Ford Global Technologies with 321 patents, GM Global Technology Operations with 296 and Magna Electronics with 53 patents issued. Specifically, CommercialCafe cited the partnership between Google and Ford Motor Co. to convert the 105-year-old Michigan Central train station and surrounding neighborhood into the Michigan Central Innovation District as a hub for mobility and entrepreneurship. As part of the mobility-focused, smart city project, Google agreed to provide cloud technology, as well as work force development training to high school students and job seekers in the Detroit area, the report said. In addition to Ford, General Motors and Stellantis have established mobility and software engineering projects in Michigan in recent years, bringing Silicon Valley closer to home, it said. Ford could not be reached for comment. A GM spokesperson said the company was unable to comment on patent filings or their intended use "due to the competitive nature of the space." A growing startup center Alan Taub, director of the University of Michigan's Michigan Materials Research Institute, said an increased interest in startups is also leading to a more competitive mobility market, which is why Michigan is seeing more AI patents. "The technology revolutions of connected vehicles, self-driving vehicles and electric vehicles are moving at an unprecedented rate for the industry," Taub said. "And with the introduction of new startups, all of a sudden intellectual property moved from sort of the bare minimum to a major part of the strategy of companies. … I think if you just do a historical look at the number of patents around mobility, it has skyrocketed, because they're much more valuable, and it's a much more hyper-competitive space." HostingAdvice.com, a web-hosting information site, recently ranked Detroit as one of the top 13 cities drawing startups away from Silicon Valley. Detroit ranked No. 6 on the list, citing the city's economic resiliency after the 2008 financial crisis and the city's business-friendly tax environment. In the 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report by Startup Genome, an innovation policy advisory and research firm based in San Francisco, Detroit was ranked the No. 1 city in the U.S. for emerging startup ecosystems. Henry Liu, an engineering professor and director of Mcity, UM's mobility testing facility, said AI is becoming an essential part of autonomous vehicles. "AI is going to transform every aspect of mobility, not only just the vehicle, but the infrastructure, the manufacturing of the vehicles, and in service to people," Liu said. A typical use of AI in mobility is in self-driving vehicles. Liu used the example of a Tesla, which has eight cameras and 12 sensors that feed information about the traffic, pedestrians and other vehicles to the control system. In the past, the development of…

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GM overtakes Ford as second-best seller of EVs in U.S. but still trails Tesla by a wide margin

DETROIT — General Motors pulled ahead of Ford Motor to become the country’s second-best seller of all-electric vehicles during the first quarter, trailing only industry leader Tesla. GM on Monday said it sold 20,670 EVs during the first three months of the year. Ford, which was No. 2 last year, on Tuesday reported EV sales of 10,866 over the same time frame. Motor Intelligence reports Ford’s EV…

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