by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 19, 2020
BMW and Daimler are hitting the pause button on joint development efforts of automated vehicles. The pandemic has raised new questions about the future of self-driving vehicles at a time when technical development of vehicles that can drive themselves outside of a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 19, 2020
Tesla is facing a variety of accusations involving alleged mismanagement, the awarding of improper compensation and other examples of “unrelenting avarice.” With its stock floating in the $1,000 range and its market capitalization approaching that of industry giant...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 18, 2020
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center have developed a simulation system with infinite steering possibilities to help autonomous vehicles to learn to navigate real-world scenarios before...
by Michael Strong | Jun 18, 2020
The impact of the pandemic has forced many companies to take a hard look at how they will do business in the future, and ride-hailing service Lyft Inc. is making a major change, committing to using battery-electric vehicles only by 2030. In a blog post on its website,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 18, 2020
Ford is getting ready to roll out its first long-range battery-electric vehicle later this year, and the new Mustang Mach-E also will become the automaker’s first model to get the new, hands-free Active Drive Assist technology. Active Drive Assist will permit...
by Michael Strong | Jun 17, 2020
General Motors plans to recognize Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the U.S., Friday with 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence. Juneteenth is June 19, and the period of silence matches the amount of time that the Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd’s...
by Michael Strong | Jun 17, 2020
The hallways at the Glass House, Ford Motor Co.’s Dearborn, Michigan headquarters, and scores of other buildings are likely going to be quieter for the next several months as the automaker gave salaried personnel working from home already the option to stay there...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 17, 2020
Tesla appears to be facing significant quality problems with the new Model Y severe enough some customers are rejecting delivery of the battery-electric SUV, according to a variety of reports, including those in Tesla online forums. The problems reportedly cover a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 17, 2020
Audi is stepping up its research on automated driving by opening a new research-and-development office in Silicon Valley focused on advanced driver assistance systems. The company expects to hire 60 engineers to concentrate on artificial intelligence, software...
by Michael Strong | Jun 16, 2020
One of the hottest segments of the sport-utility market today is the luxury ute, and the vehicle that epitomizes that special group is celebrating its 50th anniversary: the Range Rover. “The original luxury SUV,” as Land Rover describes it was “born” June 17, 1970. It...
by Michael Strong | Jun 16, 2020
A safety advocacy group renewed its call to improve the design of sport-utility vehicles to make them less likely injure or kill pedestrians after a new study showed that those vehicles were significantly more likely to do exactly that. According to a new study by the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 16, 2020
The auto industry runs, more less or less but mostly more, on the axiom that you can’t have too much of a good thing so it’s no real surprise that Kia has brought out the Seltos, a compact crossover vehicle. After all, a different compact crossover, the Kia Soul, was...
