Volvo Engineer Calls Out Tesla For Dangerous 'Wannabe' Autopilot System

Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system has been impressing everyone from consumers to journalists, and even other industry experts and executives. But now a Volvo engineer has called Tesla’s system out, claiming it’s a dangerous “wannabe” autonomous technology. Trent Victor, senior technical leader of crash avoidance for Volvo, had quite a few...

Sep 9, 2025

Volvo’s Disingenuous Claims About 'Wannabe' Tesla Autopilot Danger Are Bullshit

Volvo’s been on a very odd warpath lately. Seemingly threatened by ’s semi-autonomous driving system, Autopilot, Volvo has derided that system as “just a beta,” and implied that it was dangerous. Volvo’s not just flat-out wrong, it’s being remarkably disingenuous. Volvo’s been trying to make itself seem like the autonomous...

Sep 9, 2025

Google Will Pay You $20 An Hour To Not Drive Its Self-Driving Cars

Most wouldn’t argue that getting paid to drive cars is a dream job, but Google is putting a new spin on that concept in its car division. The company put out a job listing looking to hire people to sit behind the wheel of its self-driving vehicles and, well, not...

Sep 9, 2025

GM Invades Google's Territory With Autonomous Car Testing In San Francisco

General Motors is currently testing an autonomous version of their on public roads. Now, they could do that anywhere, really, but they chose a very particular location instead. GM’s running this Bolt EV (done, , thanks to their ) around San Francisco, right where all of the Google Cars and...

Sep 9, 2025

Google Is Teaching Its Autonomous Cars How To Honk At Humans

Google just released a on its self-driving car program discussing how its cars will communicate with human drivers in other cars to make sure they don’t kill themselves. The strategy: teach the autonomous cars how to honk at us flesh-bound mortals. Google says 94 percent of minor crashes are caused...

Sep 9, 2025

Auto Industry Puts Google On BLAST!! 'Ugly Potato' New Name For Silicon Valley's Horror Car

A professor Audi dubbed an “innovation expert” may not have the highest opinion of America’s big players in autonomous car tech, but he’s right about one thing: the Google car just ain’t a looker. And now, through the miracle of German humor, it has a nickname it won’t be losing...

Sep 9, 2025

Lexus Owners Experiencing A Nationwide Blackout Of Nav Systems

Across the nation, and also on Twitter, Lexus owners say the navigation systems in their luxury cars suddenly stopped working today for some as-of-yet unknown reason. If you head over to the you’ll find dozens of upset tweets from vehicle owners experiencing a complete blackout on the navigation systems in...

Sep 9, 2025

Lexus Has A Fix For Your Blacked Out Nav Screen But You Have To Go To A Dealer

Owners of 2014-2016 Lexus vehicles and 2016 Toyota Land Cruisers were experiencing a on their nav systems yesterday. Fortunately, dealers have a fix in the form of a hard reset. Errant traffic and weather data that the head units didn’t know how to process was the cause of the issue....

Sep 9, 2025

Chinese Government Plans National Standard For Autonomous Cars

At the moment, there’s little standardization on how autonomous cars work, or how they should work, or what even counts as autonomy. The Chinese government wants to change that. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced at a conference yesterday that it is working on a set of...

Sep 9, 2025

What Kind Of Future Does The Steering Wheel Have?

Google’s self-driving koala car doesn’t have one. Recent concepts from Mercedes-Benz and Volvo have ones that retract when they aren’t needed. But for now, nothing is more intrinsically tied to the act of driving than the steering wheel. Does it have a long-term future? That’s what gets pondered in this...

Sep 9, 2025

The Car Of The Future Needs A Bathroom Emergency Button

We can ponder about , but one issue not being discussed is how we have all the technology we need to rescue ourselves from the road-trip bathroom emergency situation. I think any semi-respectable human being prefers relieving themselves in the comfort of their own home. But there comes a time...

Sep 9, 2025

The Fascination With Self-Driving Cars Started Nearly 100 Years Ago

Last week, I spent a few days . Its semi-autonomous capabilities led to some discomfort—not due to their functioning, but due to the fact that I was behind the wheel of a car driving itself. It felt odd and futuristic, but, as it turns out, this movement started way back...

Sep 9, 2025

Chinese Web Giant Baidu Plans Driverless Car In Five Years

China’s top search engine Baidu already has driverless car prototypes out on the road. Now they’ve announced plans to have them in mass production in five years. That might not even be the most ambitious part, either. Company president Zhang Yaqin also stated today at the Annual Meeting of the...

Sep 9, 2025

Tesla Wants To Put Superchargers In An Alarmingly Obvious Place

The biggest downside to electric car ownership for the average person is typically range anxiety. In a gasoline-powered car you can just stop at one of the thousands of thousands of gas stations worldwide—which is what makes a gas station the perfect location for Tesla’s growing Supercharger network. Tesla has...

Sep 9, 2025

Does Tesla's Autopilot Suffer From A Dangerous Blind Spot?

A grim milestone has been set in the history of automobiles: the first While it will be up to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to officially determine what went wrong, this circumstances of this accident, and Tesla’s own words suggest a large and potentially dangerous blind spot in the...

Sep 9, 2025