Those vehicles began test drives at the end of 2016.
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It even sold customers the dealer floor models used for test drives.
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Like, for example, being able to take partners on parenting test drives.
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When they were located, they often hadn't been charged—meaning no test drives.
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That's why it's the model of choice for so many autonomous test drives.
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She added that the system worked during test drives with her father, Paul.
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Mine have been only test drives, in a car lent by the company.
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For me, the biggest point of confusion had to do with test drives.
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It's a way for everyday customers to conduct extended test drives of new models.
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Bob Drucker has been on more than a few test drives in his day.
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She works with other mechanics and drivers on test drives and in the garage.
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Update December 9th, 5:38PM ET: Added photos of Nvidia's cars performing preliminary test drives.
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In my Autopilot test drives, I have been too nervous to be lulled into complacency.
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Now comes one of the most fun steps in the car-buying process: The test-drives.
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The idea for making test drives and car buying easier via technology is not novel, however.
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Investors will take test-drives during the day and hear from senior executives working on autonomy.
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It has unveiled a towering "car vending machine" in Guangzhou that dispenses vehicles for test drives.
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In the dealership, for example, where customers take potential vehicles for test drives and chat with salespeople.
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Last year, there were 7,500 test drives worldwide, and this year is expected to be even bigger.
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The Eclipse Cross should kill during test drives, because it makes a very good impression around town.
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Something more sophisticated than my test drives would be required to gauge the effectiveness of that change.
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The project, started earlier this month, has Waymo employees gathering data from test drives, the agency said.
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Chris Evans rides with Sabine Schmitz in an Audi R8 V10 Plus, then test drives a Ferrari F12tdf.
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In addition to not offering traditional test drives, Beepi also tried to grow too quickly, Mr. Arison said.
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No test drives But those who bought a Model 3 last year were big fans of Tesla already.
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Beyond offering licensed and private taxi rides, Didi's services also include chauffeurs, test drives, and a communal bus service.
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The test drives are free, as long as customers have a very respectable credit score of 700 or above.
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And, for the time being, test drives are only happening in the car-centric L.A. market and Orange County.
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The first 20-minute test drives were conducted at MCity, an ersatz city managed by the University of Michigan.
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But Korea's Hyundai and Kia also host display tents and offer test drives, hoping to catch some reflected automotive exclusivity.
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The automaker is also opening "Polestar Spaces," a showroom where customers can interact with the product and schedule test drives.
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In automotive terms, going from concept to production to test drives in 12 months' time is an exceptionally tight schedule.
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In automotive terms, going from concept to production to test drives in 230 months' time is an exceptionally tight schedule.
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Didi's app already lets passengers book test drives of new cars on behalf of several carmakers, including Mercedes and Audi.
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Hyundai and Amazon have partnered up to let customers order test drives of the Hyundai Elantra, right from Amazon's website.
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Some ReachNow members sign up simply for extended test drives of BMW cars like the electric i3, Mr. Banfield said.
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However, Tesla has stated that it is conducting test drives out of state, at closed tracks and via simulation, instead.
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In automotive terms, going from concept to production to test drives... Fiera Arouser for Her is basically foreplay in a gadget.
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On June 1, Waymo showcased some of the Chrysler vans during FCA's investor day in Italy, taking participants for test drives.
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Earlier this week, it also partnered with Hyundai to let potential customers order up test drives right from the retailer's website.
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There is less traffic to deal with when taking test drives, and sales representatives have more time to answer your questions.
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Only users with scores above 700 on Sesame Credit, Alibaba's social credit scoring system, will be able to schedule test drives.
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It previously revealed plans to open "Polestar Spaces," a showroom where customers can interact with the product and schedule test drives.
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Traders say the taste test drives up costs by forcing them to keep their offers open indefinitely while it takes place.
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Earlier this year, GM executive Mark Reuss took reporters for test drives in the new Chevy Camaro ZL1, which boasts 640 horsepower.
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What's happening: Tesla is inviting investors to its Palo Alto headquarters Monday for test drives to experience automated features still under development.
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The company, founded in 2013, has built a software platform that lets customers shop for cars, get financing and schedule test drives.
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The company, founded in 270, has built a software platform that lets customers shop for cars, get financing and schedule test drives.
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Audi is expected to offer showgoers test drives of the E-tron all-electric S.U.V. that is due in showrooms this summer.
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I went to the dealership on the bottom floor, but was told test drives must be scheduled about a week in advance.
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Google was zooming ahead, producing and testing autonomous cars of its own design and racking up millions of miles in test drives.
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It provided no details on how many vehicles it planned to produce, or whether it has begun test drives on closed tracks.
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The Stanford team trained a neural network with data from 200,000 motion samples, including test drives on slippery surfaces like snow and ice.
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This is also how the company will make up for the test drives it currently offers at stores, Musk said on the call.
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And Gubagoo said it will connect car dealerships with customers through Business Chat for viewing inventory, plus scheduling test drives and service appointments.
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Shift Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell is not a fan of the way test drives are done when you're trying to buy a car.
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The permit allows it to conduct test drives in three vehicles with six drivers, the state Department of Motor Vehicles said on Friday.
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A BMW spokesman, Kenn Sparks, confirmed that Specialty 8 was a "subcategory" for sales of vehicles used as demonstrator models and test drives.
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Last year, Uber's self-driving test vehicle struck and killed a woman in Temple, prompting the transportation giant to suspend its test drives.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has several close pals in tech, including friends he's defended online or taken for Tesla test drives.
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Scott was not carrying a cell phone, as he told the Star he leaves it in the shop during test drives to avoid distractions.
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For TuSimple, the test drives are a chance to validate its vision of autonomous semis changing the dynamics and costs of long-haul trucking.
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In Amazon's case, DriveShop is managing the test drives between Prime Now consumers and Hyundai, according to information on the "Drive Now" program's site.
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He also said that the company would no longer offer test drives, and that all sales had to be completed by computer or smartphone.
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It doesn't trot out its vehicles just to prove they exist or take journalists for test drives to demonstrate that the technology actually works.
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To reduce the time that people spend buying and servicing their vehicles, Lincoln is offering at-home test drives and service pickups and deliveries.
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Cover image: Photo taken on March 7, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows self-driving vehicles used for test drives conducted by Uber Technologies Inc.
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The document, reported by the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, recorded the outcome of test drives of new vehicles in southern Africa in February 2013.
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Mr. Banks said Beepi, which eschewed conventional test drives for 10-day money-back guarantees, failed to appraise cars accurately and was too capital-intensive.
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Chipmaker Nvidia, which typically works behind the scenes when powering consumer technology, also offered test drives during CES that forced me to do just that.
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There were only about 50 Fireflies in the fleet at best, and while they racked up millions of miles of test drives, that's still not enough.
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The vibe was fun—people were happy to geek out as they waited in the long lines for factory tours, for Tesla test drives, for food.
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Soon enough, Nichols was getting messages from luxury car dealerships asking for test-drives, texts offering backstage passes, and many, many photos of scantily-clad women.
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Customer test drives would likely be contracted out to a third party, and various car dealers with excess service capacity would carry out maintenance and repairs.
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Gladwell's biggest gripe with test drives is how shoppers have to make a decision based on too little knowledge of or experience with the car itself.
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Manufacturers from BMW to Audi offer test drives of new vehicles — Audi even drove an autonomous car from San Francisco to Las Vegas for CES 2017.
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Following Musk's presentation, some attendees were given test drives in the Model Y. Tesla is unveiling the Model Y as it goes through a rocky period.
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But allow me to share this wisdom McNugget: The auto industry has changed tremendously over the last 260 years, so research and test drives are critical.
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Now, CEO Elon Musk has given a target date for an unveiling and the first slate of test drives of his company's next expansion in automotive transportation.
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Cabin, which until a few days ago was known as SleepBus, was a hit last year with three days of sold-out test drives up and down California.
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With today's news there were no changes to Tesla's return policy, which covers 1,000 miles or seven days, whichever comes first, as a bypass on offering test drives.
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After these two test drives, which We-Vibe recommends happen at least an hour apart for everyone's safety, my boyfriend's entire dick is still firmly attached to his body.
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It is offering an entire city for test drives, and the country's mobile network is among the most robust in the world: 4G coverage reaches 96% of the population.
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It will have a Powerwall, the company's home battery, on display and Teslas available for test drives but it will be designed in the vision of a retail store.
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Just before the New Year, Urmson's co-founders Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell hosted a rare media event to talk about their technology and take journalists for test drives.
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But the company also did away with test drives when it announced the new online-only sales model, so it added four extra days to that second possible return scenario.
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Also, on the question of test drives, the site recommends finding a friend who has the same make and model of vehicle and driving theirs or asking for their feedback.
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And the generous return policy of 1000 miles or 7 days, whichever comes first, should alleviate the need for most test drives at stores at the potential Tesla owner's request.
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Ford and Alibaba signed a three-year collaboration partnership last December, allowing the US car maker various new retail opportunities, from pre-sales, test drives and leasing options, through Tmall.
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Stores will also have cars available for test drives and "a small number of cars in inventory for customers who wish to drive away with a Tesla immediately," it added.
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There were no alien abductions — just men taking UFOs for test drives and armed with the power to implant fake memories into abductees to make them think aliens were involved.
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That's why the company operated its test drives around a small track and also had staffers on hand with a remote control just in case they needed to step in.
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Some set up test drives of their personal vehicle for strangers interested in buying Teslas in places where the company is prohibited from distributing its vehicles directly, like Michigan and Texas.
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"The Volkswagen brand is continually reviewing its participation in international motor shows," it said on Thursday, adding it could instead host "various communications activities" in the French capital, including test drives.
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At-home test drives are being tested in Dallas and Houston, where a dealership will bring you the Lincoln of your choice to try for up to 48 hours before purchasing.
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The company has worked on honing its self-driving cars for the last six years, the Journal reported, accumulating more than 1.5 million miles worth of test drives in the process.
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To that end, Aurora has developed a proprietary system for executing these types of test drives, ultimately increasing simulating driving experiences by a factor of 100, as reported by Automotive News.
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In these computer models, Waymo uses software to make virtual test drives even more complicated by adding more pedestrians and making distances between cars shorter than in typical road situations, he said.
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As Prochazka recounted, allowing the group to remove some of the soft costs of customer acquisition—marketing, public education, test drives, explaining local and federal incentives—convinced dealers and automakers to offer discounts.
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In fact, Tesla doesn't allow discounts or negotiated prices for the cars in its showrooms, either, unless they are models that have been sitting on the floor or been used for test drives.
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Didi already offers a lot more services that Uber — regular taxis, peer-to-peer taxis, carpooling, buses, chauffeuring and even test drives — so it isn't clear exactly how it can expand its offerings.
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The virtual used car dealership is looking to disrupt the auto purchasing process in a few ways, which include delivering cars for on-demand test drives, and helping finance loans from a smartphone.
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My grandchildren, who were along for the Autopilot test drives, screamed in delight when I took my hands off the wheel as the car steered itself on winding city streets and curving freeways.
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Finally, auto sales may have been boosted in recent years by industry practices that count new cars purchased by the dealer as sales, or through the expansion of test-drives and rental fleets.
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Enter car camouflage, which may conjure up images of soldiers on a faraway battlefield, but actually serves a unique purpose: Providing cover for prototype cars as they roll through the streets on test drives.
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Startups like Tred offer a mobile car dealership including test drives from your home; Beepi lets you buy, sell and lease from an app, and then allows you 10 days for test drive it.
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Before 2021, BMW and its partners plan to move pretty quickly: it says it will have test vehicles ready in the "near term," with full autonomous fleets ready for extended test drives next year.
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BMW uses artificial intelligence to analyze the enormous amounts of data compiled from test drives, part of a quest to build cars that can learn from experience and eventually drive themselves without human intervention.
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That said, the company has plans to continue to develop the app to include features such as an Uber-like automated dispatch for test drives where you're able to track where the car is in the app.
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Since 2009, Alphabet's self-driving cars have logged 2.3 million driverless miles — the equivalent of more than 400 round-trip drives from New York to Los Angeles — on test drives in California, Arizona, Texas and Washington state.
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The EV maker is also seen as lagging the competition — especially Alphabet-owned Waymo and GM-owned Cruise — when it comes to real-world test drives of its self-driving cars in its home state of California.
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With Tesla test drives scaled back, your options to check out a Model 3 or Model S sedan are limited enough that you may need to turn to virtual reality to see the car before you buy it.
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Winterkorn said in a declaration to the court that he has not been to the United States since the diesel emissions scandal became public last September, and last visited in July 2015 for previously undisclosed test drives in Florida.
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The Alphabet Inc unit, which has been developing autonomous cars since 2009, said its self-driving vehicles had logged two million miles (3.2 million km) on public roads, and it continues to log about 25,000 miles of test drives per week.
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The usual way was to research the different makes and models within the determined affordable range and visit various dealerships and go on test drives and, once decided, discuss options and add-ons and special features and, finally, negotiate the price.
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She counters with the argument that his dad, a car salesman, makes the same commission whether a customer snaps a car off the lot with no fuss or puts him through multiple test drives and other headaches before signing the lease.
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Let's take a breath and I'll see you in the year 2035 Early in August, however, Uber announced that, under the supervision and presence of trained drivers and engineers, 100 self-driven Volvos will conduct test drives with passengers in Pittsburgh.
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BMW's 7-Series test vehicles will be fitted with the latest technology from Intel and Mobileye and prepared for test drives worldwide starting in the United States and Europe, the three firms said on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Based on numerous accounts from test drives in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and other cities, it is clear that the complexity of urban streets—with pedestrians, cyclists, truck deliveries, and people exiting parked cars—is simply not something the vehicles are ready to handle.
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Part of the layoffs are due to the company transferring to more of an inside sales model, where there may be more time given to progressing sales remotely instead of in-person: one of Shift's unique selling points has been its in-person test drives.
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Taking time away from all the test drives and trash talk that entails, MegaBots' CEO Gui Cavalcanti will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco to discuss the unique design and business challenges his startup is tackling as it makes its robots battle-ready.
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Allowing anyone to just take a car for three days is risky business and, alongside some T&Cs such as a limit of five test-drives per two months, Alibaba is relying on its own financial services to vet and identify who is borrowing the vehicles.
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At the end of the road, a temptation I started to feel like I was in a 21st century version of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer test-drives a car and sucks the salesman into a game of seeing just how far they can drive the fuel gauge into the red.
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These places have all kinds of inventory sitting around that could be deployed in whatever manner they see fit: a couple for extended test drives of new models, a few older ones paying their way despite being the last four on the lot from last year, a different way to monetize overnumerous used vehicles, and so on.
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