Autonomous vehicle technology firm Luminar plans to go public via a merger with blank-check company Gores Metropoulos. Luminar makes a spinning laser sensor called LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, which enables self-driving cars to measure how far they are from other cars and pedestrians. The Luminar deal is the latest in a spate of acquisitions by SPACs, or special purpose acquisition...
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Amazon’s No-Fly Zone: Drone Delivery Largely Grounded Despite Splashy Launch

Amazon in December announced with great fanfare that, after nearly a decade of work, it had finally launched drone delivery in the U.S., in two towns in California and Texas. But by mid-January, Amazon Prime Air had made deliveries to fewer than 10 houses, according to people who worked on the project. Despite what Amazon has said publicly about regulatory approvals for the drone effort, the...
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