Tesla won’t face a fight over California’s latest COVID-19 restrictions

Posted on 21/11/2020 by Engadget

California is once again instituting restrictions to keep COVID-19 in check, but it’s not going to risk pushback from Tesla this time around. Reuters reports the state’s Health Department has determined that workers at Tesla’s Fremont factory are con...

Hitting the Books: What really goes into your artisanal cheese

Posted on 07/11/2020 by Engadget

Keep your white picket fences and 2.5 suburban-raised children, there is nothing more American that tearing into an individually-wrapped slice of hyper-processed, luminescently orange milk-derived consumption commodity. But American is not the only v...

California votes to strip employee protections from Uber and Lyft drivers

Posted on 04/11/2020 by Engadget

Uber and other ride-hailing and delivery companies in California have prevailed in a $220 million dollar gambit to keep workers as independent contractors. Proposition 22, a side ballot to overturn a California law that made drivers full employees, p...

Appeals court backs ruling that Uber, Lyft should treat drivers as employees

Posted on 23/10/2020 by Engadget

Uber and Lyft lost in court in Thursday, as the First Appellate District court in San Francisco affirmed a preliminary injunction placed against the companies last month. That ruling said there’s “overwhelming likelihood” the two companies are miscla...

California Uber drivers sue company over Prop 22 app notifications

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Engadget

It’s no secret Uber has been aggressively supporting Proposition 22, a California ballot initiative that would allow the company to skirt a state law requiring them to classify drivers as employees. Now, a group of the app’s drivers say the company’s...

GM will test fully driverless cars in SF later this year

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

General Motors and its self-driving car unit Cruise say they’ll start testing unmanned autonomous vehicles in San Francisco by the end of 2020 (via NBC News). On Thursday, the subsidiary said it received a permit from California’s Department of Motor...

After Math: Tesla goes budget and California has gas car ban plans

Posted on 27/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

This week we saw Amazon roll out a bunch of next-generation Big Brother gear, including dash cams and an indoor camera-copter, in an ongoing effort to normalize its all-encompassing, inescapable surveillance schemes. That’s the bad news, but there wa...

California to ban sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035

Posted on 23/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

As California continues to battle ever more deadly and destructive wildfires up and down the state, California governor Gavin Newsom has issued a sweeping executive order that will effectively ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel-driven vehicles b...

How to tell if the air around us is safe to breathe

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The West’s 2020 fire season has been absolutely brutal, with more than 7,600 blazes spreading the length of coast, killing 35 people and charring 3.1 million acres to date. Autumn winds arrived early this year, reducing humidity and desiccating under...

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