This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate two articles spanning autonomous vehicle safety and social media's staying power.
A new safety study puts robotaxis under the microscope, comparing crash rates between autonomous vehicles and human drivers across four major U.S. cities. The numbers look striking, but researchers admit a major catch in how that data gets collected. Meanwhile, U.S. senators are raising alarms about whether one automaker's self-driving safety claims can be trusted, accusing the company of cherry-picking numbers to look safer than it really is.
A social app once dismissed as a hastily built rival to a billionaire's platform has quietly grown into something enormous. Half a billion people now check in monthly, drawn less by breaking news than by fandoms and a nostalgic vibe reminiscent of an earlier internet. But with no revenue numbers released, one question hangs over the growth: can it actually turn into real money?
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- (00:13) - Waymo vs. Human Drivers: Experts Reveal Which is Safer
- (08:44) - Threads, Meta's 'Twitter Killer,' Finds Its People