How Science Fiction Failed Us: The Real Future Of Autonomous Cars

Elon Musk believes in it. So does Uber’s Travis Kalanick. The Autonomotive Singularity is inevitable. It is the enemy of enthusiast car culture as it stands, but only as we know it. If we come to understand it, it might just be the best thing ever for car enthusiasts....

May 3, 2025

Intel Outlines The Ways Your Car Can Be Hacked

Intel, the manufacturer of the majority of chips and processors included in most personal computers on sale today, have now started investigating and developing new methods of hack-proofing automobiles. Software security is for automakers with new technologies filling our cars in today’s market, and it’s one more headache for the...

May 3, 2025

Frankfurt Was A Show About The Future Of Big Ideas

As the dies down and we all sleep easy at night with dreams of a Montecarlo Blue Alfa Romeo Giulia, I thought we could process some of the big ideas a lot of automakers hinted at with this year’s show. Outside of the obvious electric future we’re all silently and...

May 3, 2025

Apple Car's 'Target Ship Date' Is 2019, Whatever That Means

We know Apple is working on an autonomous electric car. We don’t know pretty much everything else about it. But now, according to a report, we know its “target ship date” is just four years away. It’s not clear whether Apple actually wants to make a car that consumers will...

May 3, 2025

That Buzzfeed Article About Autonomous Cars Is Stupid Trolling Bullshit And Here's Why

A couple of days ago, a Buzzfeed writer got a ride in one of Google’s autonomous koala-cars and got an erection so powerful that it drew enough blood from his brain to cause him to have a mild stroke that turned him into some sort of inane troll. At least,...

May 3, 2025

Ban Eating

What if I told you the biggest contributor to death and pollution in the United States wasn’t or cancer or clickbait, but rather cheeseburgers and other foodstuffs? Yes, we love food, but if we we really care about the world we’d ban eating. I know what you’re thinking: “Can’t we...

May 3, 2025

Stanford Professor Advises Autonomous Cars (And Their Designers) To Think More

As the future of driverless cars pedals (itself?) onward, one person in the business wants to slow the process — at least, until all of the bases are covered. A Stanford University engineering professor, programming driverless race cars has long been an interest of Chris Gerdes. But as manufacturers and...

May 3, 2025

This Hybrid Sports Car Comes With Its Own Autopilot Drone

Cars without drivers. Drones with cars. Both with autopilot features. While that concept sounds like something we should expect to see in action many years down the road, Swiss manufacturer Rinspeed plans to show us in just a few months. Rinspeed gave us all quite the teaser of the “Ʃtos”...

May 3, 2025

Tesla's New Autopilot Will Steer, Park And Map The Road You're Driving On

The version 7.0 update of the Tesla Model S’s running software will use the car’s large suite of sensors to help it automatically steer, switch lanes, parallel park, and help keep you from crashing. The instrument cluster will be updated to include a real-time visualization of the road. The autosteer...

May 3, 2025

Tesla Is Already Tracking Its Cars To Teach Them To Drive Themselves

By the end of the evening, Tesla will start remotely update all its customers’ cars with . With that, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says they’re “less than three years” from a car than can drive us in our sleep. That’s because Tesla is keeping a very close eye on the...

May 3, 2025

The Autonomous Winter Is Coming

Winter is coming for car manufacturers. An Autonomous Winter, without end. If you’ve seen what Tesla is doing with , and , you’ve already seen the future. Now it’s up to automakers to figure out what they want to be in this new world as quickly as possible. Don’t...

May 3, 2025

Why No Manufacturer Wants To Sell You The First Fully Autonomous Car

When will fully Autonomous Driving become a reality? That’s the trillion dollar question. It may come down to which company is willing to offer it first, but there are some very clear hurdles to that. The easy answer is that Autonomous Driving is almost here. All the component technologies are...

May 3, 2025

Stanford Built An Autonomous DeLorean That Drifts

It’s likely you’re getting sick of all the Back to the Future-related content today, but I promise you that this one is a little different, since the chunk of electronics added to a DeLorean is . Even better, it really does make this 2015 feel like an imagined future 2015,...

May 3, 2025

Alex Roy And Two Members Of The Tesla Record Team Just Broke That Coast-To-Coast Record With Autopilot

You may remember Carl Reese and Deena Mastracci, two members of the team who drove from Los Angeles to New York in April. You may also have heard of Alex Roy, no stranger to records himself and someone who’s been lately. Those worlds just collided with a new coast-to-coast record...

May 3, 2025

The Nissan IDS Concept Has A Smiling iPad Screen That Transforms Into Your Steering Wheel

Well, I’m not sure I’d call that unit a steering “wheel,” but Nissan does on their new autonomous driving concept, the IDS. If you’re going to ride around in a car that drives itself sometimes, I guess it had better be interesting, right? The Tokyo Motor Show Concept looks like...

May 3, 2025