If you take your hands off the wheel, you might crash. That proverbial piece of advice, commonly leveled at business leaders and managers, has taken on a new meaning in light of the U.S. Department of Justice‘s (DOJ) investigation revealed Wednesday (May 8) into electric vehicle (EV) automaker...
Amazon-owned autonomous car company Zoox has expanded the area in which its robotaxis are operating. The company is also operating the vehicles at faster speeds, in light rain and at night, Zoox said in a Thursday (March 14) update. “Deploying our robotaxi in a larger geofence is a...
Apple has reportedly scaled back and delayed its plans to develop a vehicle. After initially aiming for a fully autonomous vehicle, the company has scaled back its ambitions and is now focusing on an electric vehicle (EV) with more limited features, including more basic driver-assistance features,...
For autonomous vehicles (AVs), the road ahead stretches out a bit farther. On Thursday (Jan. 4), Mobileye, which makes self-driving technology — spanning cameras and chips and systems — posted preliminary results for the third quarter. The results pointed to what the company called “excess...
November 13, 2018
One might have to squint, but they can certainly see it coming — for real (not just hype) in some press release, interview, film or TV show. The push to bring connected vehicles to more consumers — vehicles that can enable their own fuel payments, parking arrangements, restaurant reservations and other such tasks — is significant. It’s […]
August 11, 2018
Americans do a lot of driving. According to the latest edition of the American Driving Survey, each Americans spends about 290 hours a year behind the wheel, driving about 10,000 miles. As a...
June 08, 2018
The world is becoming an increasingly urban place. In the year 1950, only about 30 percent of the human population lived in a city. Howoever, as of 2014, 54 percent...
January 17, 2018
“It is hard for most people to really imagine the staggering amounts of data that need to be sorted, parsed and secured to make connected cars – and eventually autonomous...
March 14, 2024
Amazon-owned autonomous car company Zoox has expanded the area in which its robotaxis are operating. The company is also operating the vehicles at faster speeds, in light rain and at night, Zoox said in a Thursday (March 14) update. “Deploying our robotaxi in a larger geofence is a big milestone for Zoox,” the company said in the update. […]
January 23, 2024
Apple has reportedly scaled back and delayed its plans to develop a vehicle. After initially aiming for a fully autonomous vehicle, the company has scaled back its ambitions and is now...
May 23, 2023
Google-owned self-driving vehicle firm Waymo has teamed with Uber to expand its service. The partnership, announced Tuesday (May 23), is set to launch later this year in Waymo’s newly-expanded operating territory in Phoenix, Arizona and will...
August 09, 2021
Swedish automotive technology company Veoneer will hold formal talks with Qualcomm about an acquisition bid from the chip-maker, Veoneer announced Sunday (Aug. 8). A recent offer from Qualcomm is likely...
