Uber Drivers Ask 'Where Are The Answers?' In Shitshow Q&A

Say you’re Uber. You’ve just had a month drenched in bad PR, and . What do you do? Continue the trend of bad PR, duh. The ride-hailing company on Thursday held a public question-and-answer session with Uber President Jeff Jones, ostensibly for drivers to ask questions. It ended up more...

Sep 10, 2025

I Have A Weird Idea How To Get Data Into Cars, But I Have No Idea What To Use It For

While David Tracy and I were driving up to , I managed to take a curve sort of wide and run over some rumble strips. That got us thinking about rumble strips, which got me thinking about the various projects, where grooves in the road make music when driven over....

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Investors Slam Company Over Handling Of Sexual Harassment Claims

Phew! Uber probably thought things were turning a corner after founder Travis Kalanick pledged to address that was described in a now-viral essay by a former engineer. But hey, when it rains it pours, and it’s pouring at Uber’s HQ. I mean, goddamn. Two early investors wrote an open letter...

Sep 10, 2025

College Student Refitted A Car With Self-Driving Tech For $700 -- And It's Completely Legal

Automakers and lawmakers are trying to figure out to implement some level of , but in the meantime some robot cars have already hit the road. For example, there’s college student Jorgen Brevenson’s Honda Civic, which he outfitted with autonomous gadgetry for just $700. Seven hundred dollars! In an interview...

Sep 10, 2025

The Self-Driving Car Wars Have Begun: Waymo Sues Uber For Stealing Design Of LiDAR System (Update)

Every automaker and car start-up is currently working on the same technology, and now two tech behemoths are pitted against one another. , the self-driving car project of Google, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against that alleges one of its former employees stole the proprietary design of Waymo’s self-driving car...

Sep 10, 2025

You'll Soon Be Able To Use Apple CarPlay Without A Cord, Which Was Dumb Anyway

Despite being a refreshingly simple and useful interface compared to most in-car infotainment systems, which tend to be horrible, has long been quite annoying for one thing: you need a cord to plug it in. Now, there’s a solution. Supplier Harman has announced that it’s going to offer a CarPlay...

Sep 10, 2025

The 'World's Fastest Electric Car' Just Set Two Incredible Lap Records

The electric supercar wasn’t content with merely entering the never-ending vehicular stat war—it recently set a couple of lap records at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, including one for the fastest production car ever to run there. In case that wasn’t enough, it set a driverless lap record for the...

Sep 10, 2025

Watch Tesla Autopilot 2.0 Drive Like A Drunk Old Man

Someone’s Autopilot woke up on the wrong side of the bed. A video by a Tesla Model S owner that was uploaded to YouTube shows his vehicle, equipped with the latest hardware and Autopilot 2.0, struggling to stay in a lane, despite what appears to be pristine driving conditions and...

Sep 10, 2025

The New Volvo XC60 Will Drive You Out Of Harm's Way

They might not have those , but Volvo said this week that the new 2018 XC60 is going to boost the Swedish automaker’s standing in the self-driving tech field by equipping the SUV with some serious autonomous gadgets to, ostensibly, make drives safer. The redesigned SUV, which is slated to...

Sep 10, 2025

Purchase Of Small Autonomous Tech Firm Could Poke Holes In Waymo Lawsuit Against Uber

Here’s a small, but interesting twist in , which alleges the ride-hailing giant’s self-driving car tech is based on a stolen design of its rival Google branch’s autonomous system: Last May, Otto—the self-driving truck company purchased by Uber—quietly bought a small company that specializes in the tech it’s now accused...

Sep 10, 2025

State Trooper Explains The Incredible Car Safety Feature That No One Uses

Sgt. John Perrine, a Public Information Officer for the Indiana State Police, recently issued a public service announcement to make sure everyone is aware of a truly revolutionary feature found on every modern car. are going to want to grab a notebook and pen. We here in the United States...

Sep 10, 2025

Don't Use Tesla's Autopilot Like This

My god, people. Tesla’s Autopilot requires constant human supervision— knows it, it, know it. In case you don’t, here’s another helpful video: A Model S running into a highway barrier near Dallas, after it failed to recognize the roadway and merge into another lane. First noticed by Electrek, the Tesla...

Sep 10, 2025

Has Anyone Actually Paid For A Self-Driving Uber Ride In Arizona Yet?

Remember how Uber re-launched its self-driving pilot program in Arizona last week? . But a couple residents in the city of Tempe, where the ride-hailing giant’s self-driving cars are dispatched, haven’t caught a ride in an autonomous Uber yet—despite seeing a dozen driving around town, without any passengers, and a...

Sep 10, 2025

Chevrolet Will Now Give You Unlimited 4G LTE Data For $20 A Month

Anyone who uses excessive amounts of data take note: Chevrolet announced today that it’s going to offer an unlimited AT&T 4G LTE data plan for $20 per month. Cool. The automaker announced today that any car in the U.S. equipped with an OnStar 4G WiFi hot spot gets as much...

Sep 10, 2025

Faraday Future Hit With Yet Another Lawsuit For Allegedly Failing To Pay A Contractor

Electric startup automaker (?) was hit with a fresh set of allegations on Thursday—a 26-page lawsuit that says it failed to pay an electric company for work at the automaker’s headquarters in Gardena, California. It was the latest in a long sting of lawsuits against the upstart company that in...

Sep 10, 2025