Autonomous Driving Goes Into High Gear
By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren GoodeON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Chris Urmson, CEO of the self-driving-truck company Aurora....
By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren GoodeON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Chris Urmson, CEO of the self-driving-truck company Aurora....
August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google's Waymo and GM's Cruise to begin charging customers f...
Zeekr, the luxury electric vehicle brand under China's Geely Automobile Holdings, says it will launch its Zeekr 001 shooting brake and Zeekr X SUV in Kazakhstan by the fourth quarter of 2023.Kazakhsta...
Deadly traffic incidents have declined in most developed countries in recent years. But in the US they're becoming more common. Deaths in motor vehicle crashes rose more than 33 percent from 2011 to 2...
Caitlin Harrington[photo1]On the day that Salem, Oregon, smashed the record for the highest known temperature west of the Cascade Mountains two summers ago, FedEx driver Austin Trent was roasting insi...
Tesla's Autopilot driver assistance feature is the subject of yet another federal safety investigation. Although the details are scarce, Reuters reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini...
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.Rebecca Bellan here, and yup, I'm still steering the ship.The...
Volkswagen is betting big on the upcoming ID.Buzz electric van. With availability of the vehicle still a year out, the automaker is counting on years of pent-up anticipation to not only sell the bus s...
Two weeks ago, Toyota said it exposed the data of more than two million customers to the internet for a decade. Today, the automotive giant said it recently discovered the data of another 260,000 car ...
On Wednesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would see automatic emergency braking become a standard feature on all new light passenger ...
Arcimoto, maker of pint-sized electric vehicles, has a new EV. By the looks of it, it's no joy ride.The Eugene, Oregon-based startup dodged bankruptcy in February and strapped in its third CEO in Apri...
Ford has reached an agreement with rival Tesla that will give owners of Ford EVs access to more than 12,000 Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada.However, this agreement reaches far beyond providin...
Ford has reversed its decision to build new vehicles without AM radio after pressure from lawmakers.CEO Jim Farley wrote in posts on Twitter and LinkedIn Tuesday that AM radio will be included on all ...
[photo1]Will KnightThis week, US senators heard alarming testimony suggesting that unchecked AI could steal jobs, spread misinformation, and generally "go quite wrong," in the words of OpenAI CEO Sam ...
Self-driving vehicle companies Waymo and Cruise are on the cusp of securing final approval to charge fares for fully autonomous robotaxi rides throughout the city of San Francisco at all hours of the ...
There is so much to do in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but you don't have to do any of it if you'd rather just fuck around and make weird shit. And certainly many players are coming up w...
There's another massive airbag safety scandal brewing. Last week, General Motors issued a recall for almost a million SUVs in order to replace potentially dangerous airbag inflators, the third such re...
Toyota Japan has apologized after admitting to leaving millions of customers' vehicle details on the public internet for a decade.The car maker said in a notice that it will notify about 2.15 million ...
The list of places to update your address when you move is long and the process tedious, whether you're heading to a new neighborhood or across the country. While some of these updates are important b...
[photo1]Paresh DaveFor self-driving-car developers, like many iPhone and Google Photos users, the growing cost of storing files on the cloud has become a nagging headache.Early on, robocar companies p...