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The Station: Cali regulators eye Tesla FSD, Turo files to go public, Local Motors shuts down

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Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

Local Motors, the company that crowdsourced and built the Olli autonomous shuttle as well as the Rally Fighter, will be shutting down operations by Friday, according to several posts from various empl

We don’t just need an AV revolution — we need a design evolution

Building an autonomous vehicle without any changes in design is like building a cell phone with a rotary dial.

Toronto will trial automated shuttles from Local Motors in new pilot program

The city of Toronto is going to start operating autonomous shuttles on a trial basis, through an agreement with Local Motors that will see that company’s Olli 2.0 all-electric self-driving shutt

Meet Olli 2.0, a 3D-printed autonomous shuttle

From afar, Olli resembles many of the “future is now!” electric autonomous shuttles that have popped up in recent years. The tall rectangular pod, with its wide-set headlights and expansiv

Lucid Motors and Local Motors on the wildly different paths each is taking to change the way we look at vehicles

Lucid Motors and Local Motors. Two companies, both looking to shake up how the world thinks about vehicles and mobility — but each one is trying to take an entirely different route to get there.

Lucid Motors and Local Motors will tell us how to make modern cars at Disrupt NY 2017

The auto industry is one of the hardest to break into as a vehicle maker, so it's great that we have onstage at Disrupt NY 2017 in May two young companies working in that space to talk us through the

IBM’s Watson makes a move into self-driving cars with Olli, a minibus from Local Motors

IBM today took the wraps off its first big foray into the world of self-driving cars, not as the driver of them, but as the brain behind making your self-driving journey a little more interesting. IBM

Venture investments in new manufacturing technologies could reshape American industry

A wave of venture investment into new manufacturing startups looks set to transform American manufacturing. While the foundations for these companies may have been laid in cities like Boston, New York

The Internet Applied To Things And The Third Industrial Revolution

There's a new vanguard creating the future of the U.S. manufacturing economy. Companies like MakerBot, TechShop and Kickstarter are playing a large part in fixing the breakdown between historical indu