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Daimler

[ dahym-ler; German dahym-luhr ]

noun

  1. Gott·lieb (Wil·helm) [got, -leeb-, wil, -helm, gawt, -leep-, vil, -helm], 1834–1900, German automotive engineer, inventor, and manufacturer.


Daimler

/ ˈdeɪmlə /

noun

  1. DaimlerGottlieb (Wilhelm)18341900MGermanTECHNOLOGY: engineerBUSINESS: manufacturer Gottlieb ( Wilhelm ) ( German ˈɡɔtliːp ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1834–1900, German engineer and car manufacturer, who collaborated with Nikolaus Otto in inventing the first internal-combustion engine (1876)


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Musk may have ambitions to dominate Daimler’s home market of Germany and the rest of Europe, but the growth that has the region rivaling China for the first time this year has been driven by incumbents.

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That concern about responsibility and reputation helps explain the caution of a Ford or Daimler compared to a company like Tesla.

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Following the reports early Monday, the shares of Daimler, BMW, and Volkswagen all rose, as did those of Continental, one of the industry’s biggest component suppliers.

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Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel.

It’s therefore difficult to compare Waymo’s progress against competitors like TuSimple, Daimler, and Embark.

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Carrying his Steyr Daimler rifle, Ali creeps through the dark corridors of an abandoned house.

She arranged to meet his plane on his return from foreign trips in her Daimler limousine.

Chrysler nearly escaped its Sisyphean fate, with a hastily arranged “merger of equals” a decade ago, to Daimler-Benz.

Not to be outdone in collective dumbness, the smart people at Daimler had paid $36 billion for Chrysler in 1998.

The car was a two-seater Daimler with a yellow body and a hood.

A Peugot carriage, fitted with a Daimler engine, followed next, and then a Panhard.

Mr. Fentolin, a strange little figure lying back among the cushions of the great Daimler, raised his hat and waved it to them.

The power unit was a 40 horse-power Daimler motor, driving two propellers and giving a maximum speed of 26 miles per hour.

One—two—three horrible seconds dragged by, and then the Daimler-Benz engine in the nose caught in a mighty thunder of sound.

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