How A Tesla With Autopilot Forced Us To Take The Road Trip Of The Past

The weird thing about the road trip of the future is that it’s much more like the road trips we used to take in our past than anything else. My coworkers and I just did 1400-odd miles in an electric that could also drive itself. It wasn’t just the trip...

May 7, 2025

Facebook Wants To Help You Hitch A Ride To Your Friend's Party

It looks Facebook wants to take the event function a step further and help people actually get to those events. Is the social media giant getting into the ridesharing game? Based on these patent filings, maybe so. In filed January 28, 2016 Facebook details how it would integrate ride sharing...

May 7, 2025

How The British Are Teaching 'Instinct' To Autonomous Cars

The British Government has just committed almost $30 million to develop various facets of autonomous car tech, a chunk of which Bosch and Jaguar Land Rover are getting to develop self-driving cars that actually “drive like humans, not robots.” The total scope of research will be spread out , of...

May 7, 2025

Not Even The Famous Isle Of Man Is Safe From Autonomous Cars

Is nothing sacred? It would appear not, as now even the small, self-governing Isle of Man, forever independent of the changing empires of Europe around it, and home to one of the oldest and most dangerous races on the planet, is inviting autonomous vehicle development to its roads. That’s right;...

May 7, 2025

Google Apparently Wants Its Driverless Electric Cars To Be Cordless, Too

According to , documents filed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission indicate that new efforts toward Google’s prototype autonomous cars include the testing of several wireless charging systems for the vehicles in California. The systems come from two companies that specialize in creating charging plates for vehicles, Hevo Power and...

May 7, 2025

Watch This Guy Summon His Tesla With An Apple Watch

Tesla recently added a feature to its Model S , and now the Apple Watch is on board too. Other than being ridiculously cool, the process essentially works like summoning with a key fob. The summon feature came with on the Model S,—whether there is a garage door in the...

May 7, 2025

Nevada State Treasurer Worried Over Faraday Future Factory Funding In China

Faraday Future has made a lot of wild claims, but does it really have what it takes to be the next Tesla? Nevada’s state treasurer went to China last week to meet with Leshi, the parent company of Faraday Future, over concerns with the company delaying its promised $1 billion...

May 7, 2025

Nissan Makes Terrifying Self-Parking Office Chairs

The engineers at Nissan are excited about autonomous driving technology. So excited in fact, they pulled themselves away from working on actual cars to demonstrate how smart they were with self-parking office chairs. Office chairs that terrifyingly move around when you leave the room. I’m admittedly a little confused. I...

May 7, 2025

Ford Patents 'Autonomous Racecar Mode' To Save You From The Hassle Of Having Fun

How soon before cars start driving themselves on race tracks? Maybe it’s in the cards, based on this Ford for “Selectable Autonomous Driving Modes.” One of these modes was called “racecar” mode, and it’s exactly what you think it is. Over on in what I’m assuming was a big, damp...

May 7, 2025

Mysterious Faraday Future Bleeding Cash, Blasted By Former Exec: Report

Faraday Future, the mysterious startup automaker that made its big reveal at , is suffering from the loss of its battery engineer and financial setbacks delaying its billion dollar Nevada factory. Now a former executive put the company on blast, claiming it does not in fact have a “Tesla killer”...

May 7, 2025

Ferrari Boss On Autonomous Ferraris: 'You'll Have To Shoot Me First'

Do you want a powerful Rosso Corsa electric Ferrari driving you to your job on Wall Street while you read a book, listen to Chopin and laugh at middle-class peasants out your window? Too bad, because spoke with Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne about autonomous Ferraris, and he told inevitability to...

May 7, 2025

Why You Should Come To The Greatest Throwdown Over Autonomous Cars The World Has Ever Seen

How would I describe ? It’s like a TED Talk, involving cars, but everyone took acid beforehand. And with a DJ and some really great music. You have to come, and you have to RSVP right away. (No, we’re not driving cars on acid. Austin’s not that kind of weird...

May 7, 2025

GM Buys Autonomobile Startup To Accelerate Self-Driving Vehicle Development

GM just picked Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based company that specializes in retrofitting cars with autonomous driving tech. The move represents yet another step for GM to get their autonomous vehicle program running at full tilt. After their with Lyft and their new car-sharing service , you might have thought...

May 7, 2025

Remember, You Have To Come To Our SXSW Thing And Talk Cars And Drink

You’ll notice that headline sounds like a command. That’s because it is, in a way. If you’re at SXSW and want to help figure out humanity’s place in the coming uprising of autonomous cars, you really do need to come by the March 14 at 6 pm, at the Hype...

May 7, 2025

Guy Tests Tesla Autopilot Sensors On A Child Because Why Not

As far as autonomous driving goes, it’s still a bit of a freaky concept for most of us—whether we can trust the cars to detect objects, stay in their lanes and, oh, not kill us. In a test of the autopilot sensors on the Tesla Model S that included things...

May 7, 2025