This weekâs New Yorker features a scathing article on Googleâs self-driving car program, detailing the stories of nightmarish mismanagement and at least one crash involving self-driving cars that went mostly unreported. We want to shine more light on what happens behind closed doors in our race to get self-drivingâŚ
Anthony Levandowski, the controversial former Google engineer at the center of the major lawsuit between Uber and Waymo over trade secrets last year, is the subject of a new extensive, scathing, head-spinning story featured in this monthâs New Yorker. One of the many incredible details is an alleged crash whereâŚ
Californiaâs considering a counter-proposal to the Fedâs desire to freeze mpg standards, new autonomous car development guidelines are out, why Honda chose to work with GM instead of Googleâs Waymo and more. This is The Morning Shift for Friday, Oct. 5, 2018.
A Chrysler Pacifica test car outfitted with technology from Googleâs self-driving car unit Waymo crashed into a median back in June after the operator meant to be monitoring the system in the driverâs seat reportedly fell asleep and inadvertently disabled the self-driving system, The Information reports.
Pickup trucks are shockingly expensive, the Tesla Model 3 is selling well, oil prices are creeping up and more. This is The Morning Shift for Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018.
Semi-autonomous features are increasingly prevalent in cars these days but also, as many have argued (including myself) possibly very dangerous. Today, Consumer Reports published their rankings of four of the most widely known semiautonomous systems, finding that Cadillacâs Super Cruise was the best and Volvoâs, well,âŚ
More and more automakers are investing in autonomous tech and today GM announced itâll be joining up with Honda to build an autonomous vehicle, with a lot of money promised to change hands.
Tesla has developed an incentivized program for regular employees to become beta testers for the automakerâs upcoming advanced Autopilot technology on the Teslas they own, according to an email obtained by Bloomberg.
There are very few things worse than handing over your keys to a stranger and praying they take care of your car and donât stuff it into a wall or, yâknow, a Subaru. The struggle of valet parking is something Iâm sure we all have to deal with on a very uncomfortably frequent basis. Thankfully, auto company DaimlerâŚ
A hiccup in Teslaâs latest over-the-air update caused several owners to lose all functionality of their vehicleâs semi-autonomous Autopilot driver aid system. Tesla told one driver itâs a âknown issueâ internally and a fix is expected by Friday.
Aston Martin is finally teasing out the specs behind its first all-electric sedan, the Rapide E, and itâs apparently going to be capable of hitting a difficult target the automaker set a year ago: a full lap of the historic NĂźrburgring, powered by more than 600 ponies.
Self-driving autonomous concepts are all the rage these days, with Volvo introducing its 360c concept last week and Mercedes unveiling its own yesterday, while GM came out with their own phoned in version earlier this year. Laugh now, but this is going to be the solution to transportation problems for decades to come,âŚ
Just short of a year ago, General Motors garnered widespread national attention by announcing it planned to start testing autonomous cars on the busy streets of Manhattan in âearly 2018.â But the automakerâs pilot has yet to launch, and no one is willing to publicly offer a detailed explanation for the delay. WhatâŚ
If a self-driving revolution pans out, autonomy is going to be woven into the fabric of all sorts of transportation needsâpersonal driving, cargo shipments, long-haul trucking. On Monday, Daimler pitched a concept that aims to encompass multiple uses called the Vision URBANETIC, which it says can be fitted withâŚ
Auto racing follows the trends of the auto industry, for better or worse, and that includes self-driving tech. But the worldâs first major self-driving racing series wonât go full computer right awayâits inaugural 2019 season will have humans behind the wheel, tag teaming races with the artificial intelligence in theâŚ
Volvo wants to have an autonomous car that you can âeat, sleep, do whateverâ in by 2021, an aggressive target but one illustrative of the companyâs desire to skip over Level 3 altogether and go straight to full autonomy. Today, it showed off a concept car called the 360c that reveals a bit more about how it plans toâŚ
If the autonomous revolution ever arrives, itâs almost certain that self-driving cars will drive with an over-abundance of caution, which makes sense, but will surely irritate regular drivers on the road in the interim. Case in point: a new story from tech new outlet The Information dug into the ongoing Arizona pilotâŚ
If there is anything you flesh-bags known as âhumansâ love most, it is large, cold, unfeeling robots with unblinking, cow-like eyes and gaping maws that look like theyâre trying to scream and scream and scream, but no sounds comes out. Deeply understanding this affection, Jaguar Land-Rover has built an autonomousâŚ
Weâve aired our grievances about the fallibility of semi-autonomous driving features time and again, and a new study out this week confirms the fact: Cars with driver-assist systems that include things like lane-keep and auto-steering and braking may not see stopped vehicles. Worse, reports the Associated Press, theyâŚ
Self-driving cars might be just around the corner (or in reality many decades away), so what are you supposed to do in the event of a crash when everyoneâs just sitting in the car and chatting conference room-style? Ford is trying to stay ahead of the game and has come up with a variety of patents for that, like anâŚ
