Toyota Wants To Turn Your Daily Drive Into A Road Map For Autonomous Cars

Toyota says they expect to have autonomous cars ready to go by around 2020. That technology will revolve around an extremely detailed network of maps with data collected by anyone who might be driving one of their cars. The idea is that production Toyotas with cameras and GPS units will...

May 7, 2025

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Have Autonomous Cars In Two Years

Elon Musk must be really sick of driving, because he’s updated his prediction that we’re from autonomous cars – we’re now down to two years, at least for Teslas. Of course, this is also the guy who sort of thinks , and owning a human-driven car in 15 years will...

May 7, 2025

GM To Invest $500 Million In Lyft, Build Autonomous On-Demand Car Network

Ride-sharing! Mobility! Autonomous vehicles! Welcome to the world of cars in 2016. Here’s a huge development on all of those fronts: General Motors announced today it will invest $500 million in ride-sharing service and partner with the San Francisco startup for a network of autonomous on-demand cars. This is a...

May 7, 2025

This Goofy Thing Apparently Really Is The Faraday Future Car, And It Doesn't Drive

Were you really expecting out-of-the-blue, well-funded Chinese startup to shock the world with the next great Tesla-fighter like it claimed it would? Not so fast. Apparently really is the car Faraday Future is debuting at CES in Las Vegas, but the show car doesn’t even drive. It’s also not even...

May 7, 2025

Ford Is Tripling Its Existing Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Test Fleet

Ford will be tripling its autonomous testing fleet to accelerate development of its virtual driving software, and in doing so will have the largest autonomous fleet in the industry, with vehicles testing in California, Michigan and Arizona. The tripling of Ford’s current crop of Fusion Hybrid autonomy testers will bring...

May 7, 2025

Toyota Sounds Serious About Making Robots Instead Of Cars

“It is entirely possible that robots will become for today’s Toyota what the car industry was when Toyota made looms,” said Dr. Gill Pratt, the company’s Executive Technical Advisor and CEO of Toyota Research Institute, at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. Toyota, like , Tesla and , are convinced that...

May 7, 2025

Faraday Future's $335 Million Hype Problem

Pity the traditional automakers, sitting around waiting to die. The “legacy” car companies, unable to #disrupt and #changetheworld the way Faraday Future and the tech industry can! We pray for the souls of the people in the Motor City and Stuttgart and Japan. Except after endless hyperbole, teases, bragging about...

May 7, 2025

GM Cars Are Writing Their Own Road Maps For Future Autonomous Driving

An ultra-precise GPS is a technological keystone for autonomous cars. Tough to execute with satellite data alone, it needs to be physically mapped. GM realized most of their cars are already fitted with cameras, and is turning them on to cartography with partner Mobileye. “Cameras are the most natural sensors...

May 7, 2025

Trust In Autonomous Cars Seems Split Along Political Lines

In an election year, it feels like almost everything you encounter becomes politicized. There’s a reason for that — everything you encounter becomes politicized. You’d think the idea of whether or not you’d trust a car-robot to drive you around would be apolitical, but the results say something else. conducted...

May 7, 2025

Coast To Coast In A Tesla With No Driver Within 24 To 36 Months, Says Elon

On Saturday, we learned of the —an update allowing owners to summon the car like a well-trained dog and make it park itself. But it’s not that weird, according to Tesla head honcho Elon Musk. He says we could see fully autonomous cars in a matter of two to three...

May 7, 2025

Obama Wants To Build A 21st Century Transportation System

President Obama gave his final State of the Union address tonight, pointing out the auto industry having its best year ever while looking to a future where our reliance on fossil fuels no longer limits us. Obama didn’t linger very long on the future of the auto industry, which was...

May 7, 2025

How To Keep Your Car Clean So It Can ‘See’ In Winter

Winter driving is, generally, a pain in the ass. That usually starts with a morning windshield-scraping and snow-clearing so you can actually see well enough to drive. But what about your car? Many modern cars need to “see” as well, and all that ice and snow gets in the way....

May 7, 2025

We Played Patty-Cake While The Tesla Drove Itself

We Played Patty-Cake While The Tesla Drove Itself Semi-autonomous cars like the open up new possibilities over , as we’ve learned. But when you’re just sitting there, with the car doing the driving, how can you entertain yourself while keeping one eye on the road? With a game of patty-cake,...

May 7, 2025

Nissan Has A Dumb Idea For The Next GT-R Supercar

We haven’t heard much about the inevitable next-generation GT-R supercar, but we can expect it’s going to offer ballistic abilities to those lucky enough to drive it, particularly on racetracks. Nissan says why do that when you can sit in it and have it drive you around the racetrack. Huh?...

May 7, 2025

Autonomous Cars Need A Special Indicator Lamp

Autonomous cars are just now barely starting to end up on our roads, in limited numbers and in limited ways. For now. We’re in an interesting transitional period, and there’s still lots of things we have to figure out. I think I have an idea that could help, and it’s...

May 7, 2025