Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using …
Read More »Video shows how F1 Steering Wheels have Evolved
If you are a fan of Formula one racing who has watched for a long time. You have seen the evolution of an unlikely bit of racing tech- the steering wheel. Long gone are the days where the steering wheel was just for steering. In the high-tech an complex F1 …
Read More »Hands-off the steering wheel with a Delphi-Mobileye autonomous test-drive
PITTSBURGH – Delphi and Mobileye are creating a self-driving car that relies more on cameras, less on radar and lidar. In a demonstration drive here, the heavily modified Audi Q5 had no trouble following the road, recognizing traffic lights and stop signs, and interacting safely with cars and pedestrians on …
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