Andrew J. Hawkins is an Organizer at RealClearMarkets. He specializes in the automotive industry, with a focus on driverless cars, electric vehicles, car manufacturing, and aviation and aerospace topics. His insights and analyses have been featured in prominent publications such as The Verge, NewsBreak, and MSN.
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Andrew J. Hawkins primarily covers the automotive industry with a focus on electric vehicles, car technology, and autonomous driving. His coverage heavily includes press releases and private sector announcements.
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The company's gold-tinted driverless car is central to Elon Musk's dreams of robo-domination. But what if the software isn't ready?
By: Andrew J. Hawkins
The company calls it the world’s first state-backed trial aimed at mitigating warming contrails across an entire flight corridor — specifically the eastern half of the North Atlantic corridor, which accounts for around 5 percent of global contrail warming. Contrails (not to be confused with conspiracy theories about “chemtrails”) are a big problem for the planet because they trap heat, accounting for about 35 percent of aviation’s global warming impact. Google has been working with American Airlines to help pilots find more sustainable flight paths. [Link: Operation Blue Skies: Reducing aviation climate impact with AI
The Zeekr RT minivan, which has been rebranded as Ojai, is now available to all riders in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (after launching to select passengers last May). The company plans on bringing the egg-shaped shuttle to Denver, San Diego, and Las Vegas as its next cities before the end of the year. [Image: https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Ojai2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Ojai_rear.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Ojai-Interior-Screens.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/OJAI_PHONE.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
17 pts What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you're Waymo. For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute "brain" housed in the trunk of its…
The leader in driverless technology is revealing, for the first time, key details about its hardware, including its custom silicon chip.
By: Andrew J. Hawkins
The three-row SUV features coach-style doors and front seats that rotate 180 degrees.
By: Andrew J. Hawkins
21 pts Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. And arguably it has some of the wildest designs and features in the auto market today. Right off the bat, the coach-style doors signal that things aren't what they seem with the GV90. When the…
Nevada’s transportation authority unanimously approved permits for Tesla, Waymo, and Uber, paving the way for up 7,000 robotaxis to flood the streets of Clark County over the next 12 months, TechCrunch reports. Tesla received approval for 5,000 robotaxis — though the company’s reps said they’d be thrilled if they get to 2,500 — while Waymo and Uber were authorized for 1,000 each. Amazon’s Zoox already has a permit for 100 robotaxis in the city. The vote positions Las Vegas as the next major robotaxi market, with Amazon, Uber, Waymo, and Tesla all battling for customers. [Link: Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada
Eleven automakers, including Tesla and Xiaomi, launched software updates to comply with China’s largest recall ever over mechanical door release handles that may be hard to find or operate during emergencies. China previously banned Tesla-style concealed door handles because people were getting trapped inside their cars. The country also ordered Tesla to add driver monitoring to over 2 million vehicles to make sure drivers keep their eyes on the road, Electrek reports. [Link: China launches biggest ever auto recall campaign over door handle safety
The publication doesn’t often recommend against an entire product category, but that’s what happened after CR’s testers tried out 13 e-scooters. They found that e-scooters have gotten dangerously fast over the past several years, just as the number of scooter-related injuries as also skyrocketed. Both of CR’s testers sustained injuries while riding scooters! (I can sympathize.) [Link: We Tested 13 Electric Scooters. We Don’t Recommend Any.
