Tesla avoids California sales ban by removing'autopilot' from marketing Tesla will avoid a 30-day suspension of its dealer and manufacturer licenses in California, its biggest market, after the US electric vehicle maker stopped using the term "autopilot" in the marketing of its vehicles in the state. Tesla now uses the term "supervised" in references to its full self-driving technology and has stopped using "autopilot" entirely in its marketing in the state. State regulators said Tuesday that Tesla had stopped misleading drivers about the safety of its cars, and so the state will not suspend its state sales license for 30 days, as had been threatened. The decision by the California department of motor vehicles comes after CEO Elon Musk's electric vehicle company was found by an administrative law judge last year to have misled drivers about the ability of Tesla cars to drive themselves in its use of the terms "autopilot" and "full self-driving". In 2022, the DMV had accused Tesla of misleading consumers by using "autopilot" and "full self-driving" for its advanced driver-assistance features.

A new wave of theft is rocking the luxury car industry--mixing high-tech with old-school chop-shop techniques to snag vehicles while they're in transport. When Sam Zahr first saw the gray Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible with orange interior and orange roof, he knew he'd found a perfect addition to his fleet. "It was very appealing to our clientele," he told me. As the director of operations at Dream Luxury Rental, he outfits customers in the Detroit area looking to ride in style to a wedding, a graduation, or any other event with high-end vehicles--Rolls-Royces, Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Mercedes G-Wagons, and more. But before he could rent out the Rolls, Zahr needed to get the car to Detroit from Miami, where he bought it from a used-car dealer. His team posted the convertible on Central Dispatch, an online marketplace that's popular among car dealers, manufacturers, and owners who want to arrange vehicle shipments. It's not too complicated, at least in theory: A typical listing includes the type of vehicle, zip codes of the origin and destination, dates for pickup and delivery, and the fee. Anyone with a Central Dispatch account can see the job, and an individual carrier or transport broker who wants it can call the number on the listing. Zahr's team got a call from a transport company that wanted the job. They agreed on the price and scheduled pickup for January 17, 2025.

Visual question answering ( VQA) is a challenging task that requires an in-depth understanding of vision and language, as well as multi-modal reasoning.

Radar is ubiquitous in autonomous driving systems due to its low cost and good adaptability to bad weather.

In this supplementary material, we first give additional details about the method in Sec. 1. Queries used for zero-shot semantic segmentation. We do this for all the annotated classes in the dataset (second column). One can see that, for example, class name'manmade' lacks descriptive specificity. In the text description of this class, we can find "... buildings, walls, guard rails, fences, poles, street signs, traffic lights ..." and more. Table 1: Queries used for zero-shot semantic segmentation.