Ford CEO's Biggest Concern About Self-Driving Cars Is Something That Will Obviously Happen

If there’s one certainty about autonomous vehicles, it’s that they’ll save lives . It’s the latter that concerns Ford CEO Mark Fields about the technology’s future success. According to Inverse, Fields said at a recent panel decision with two New York City transportation officials that his biggest AV fear is...

Sep 10, 2025

Will Autonomous Cars Leave Us Vulnerable To Gangs Of Armed Teens? Study Says Maybe

Ah, what a pleasant scene: It’s a sunny day—maybe 65, 70 degrees out—and you’re getting luxuriously chauffeured about town in your fancy robot car. All the sudden, a band of armed hooligans surrounds you! Oh no, the car doesn’t know what to do—it doesn’t want to hit the people in...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Hires NASA Vet Who Swears, Honestly, That We'll Have Flying Cars In One to Three Years

Uber is having such a great time , so the ride-hailing giant decided to up the ante and hired a NASA veteran to develop flying cars, because . Mark Moore, a longtime engineer at NASA, left the agency to join Uber to work on a flying car initiative that’s imaginatively...

Sep 10, 2025

Faraday Future Couldn't Even Pick A Name Without Getting Into A Lawsuit (UPDATED)

Contract disputes? . Missed rent payments? An asinine squabble over the name and web address of your company? That’s the story ofyet another bizarre and oddly fascinating legal dispute for startup automaker that, given its relatively small amount of at least $210,000, could point to rumored financial struggles. ( In...

Sep 10, 2025

How Self-Driving Cars Could Mess With Astronomers Too

As more autonomous vehicles hitting our roadways, they’ll be carrying with them an extra load of sensors and radars that, as it turns out, could be a problem for astronomers, according to a new article from . The story, which can be previewed , highlights remarks from a number of...

Sep 10, 2025

The Fastest 0-60 Time A Person Could Actually Survive

For whatever reason, the amount of time it takes for a car to go from stationary to a-mile-every-minute is a big deal. We obsessively keep tabs on the 0-60 mph speeds of almost every car, whether or not that car is even designed for performance. Electric cars are currently engaged...

Sep 10, 2025

Fahckin' Seagulls Menace Boston's Self-Driving Cars

Vast scourges of seagulls routinely wreak havoc on coastal families, beach gatherings, and happiness in general, but apparently they’ve found a new target to annoy the shit out of: our future fleet of robot cars. The is reporting that the creatures have proved to be a difficult little thing for...

Sep 10, 2025

The Tesla Model 3 Is Too Small To Fit The Big 100kWh Battery Pack

When Tesla revealed the last year, reports suggested it would have a on an 80 kWh battery pack. Now we know why the sedan won’t have the larger 100 kWh battery pack available on Tesla’s Model S and X: it’s too small. Tesla founder Elon Musk confirmed the revelation on...

Sep 10, 2025

No Shit: Faraday Future Backer Says Construction Of Factory Depends On Whether It Has Money Or Not

Will troubled automotive start-up really begin the next phase of constructing its factory this year? It doesn’t sound like Jia Yueting, the Chinese billionaire behind the company, thinks so. Instead he said it depends on whether or not the company receives enough funding to continue construction. No shit. In the...

Sep 10, 2025

What Do You Know, Uber's Self-Driving Trucks Might Be Violating California Law, Too

silly dustup in December with California’s DMV over its self-driving pilot program turned on the ride-hailing giant’s refusal to pay $150 for a permit that would’ve legally allowed it to use autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. A new document suggests Uber’s self-driving truck company, Otto, may also be willfully...

Sep 10, 2025

Elon Musk's Big Autonomous Car Prediction Comes With A Lot Of Catches

Tesla founder Elon Musk, a man whose history is peppered with , offered up a doozy on Monday about our tech-heavy future: nearly all new vehicles will be capable of full autonomy within 10 years. But even if that’s true, we’re nowhere close to figuring everything else out that goes...

Sep 10, 2025

Google Paid ‘Fuck-You Money’ At Self-Driving Car Project So Staffers Quit When They Got Rich

After years of setbacks, finally seems to have a path to commercialization, but that long road has come at a pretty big cost, we’re now learning: , the company lost several employees because of a weird compensation system that doled out millions of dollars of bonuses, based solely on the...

Sep 10, 2025

The Man Who Tested The First Driverless Car In 1925 Had A Bizarre Feud With Harry Houdini

If you fall down the Internet rabbit hole looking into autonomous cars, eventually you’ll arrive at Francis P. Houdina. Yeah, Houdina—not Houdini, but we’ll get to that a minute. Why’s Houdina relevant? He tested out a driverless car. In 1925. As far as I can tell, it was the first...

Sep 10, 2025

This Is How You Want Your Self-Driving Car To Behave In The Rain

The most vexing point when it comes to autonomous vehicle technology is how it’ll perform in the rain or the snow, which serve as one of the environmental scenarios that can stymie how a robot car performs. That’s why a new video from AV system startup Drive.ai stands out as...

Sep 10, 2025

Loose Nevada Law Keeps Taxpayers In The Dark About Faraday Future

One of ’s most vocal critics, Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz, has regularly used a word to describe the start-up automaker’s $215 million tax incentive deal to build a new factory in his state: confidential. As Jalopnik , when the Nevada legislature approved a bill to secure Faraday’s footprint in the...

Sep 10, 2025