CEO Travis Kalanick has said the development of self-driving cars is “existential” to the company’s existence, but new financial data crunched by the ride-hailing giant suggests it won’t save nearly as much money as it originally thought. So much for the salvation that was supposed to come from robot cars....

Jesus Christ. In a whopper of a piece published Friday afternoon by , Uber confirmed that it designed a program to root out law enforcement officials investigating the company by denying them rides—in a bizarre, weird way. The program was called VTOS (that is, Violation Of Terms Of Service), and...

Elon Musk says the new sedan design was pencils-down and completed as of last summer. But documents filed by the automaker this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission sure make it seem like the sedan’s design is still in flux, and industry sources say the timeline to move the...

This is the Volkswagen Sedric Concept. The name is a combination of the words “lf-iving ar” and not a weird reference to a . It’s also the “” which confuses me, since VW has had plenty of concept cars. What confuses me less is the space-cyber-caterpillar look of the car,...

The Toyota Research Institute unveiled its first research platform for self-driving cars last week, and it has a full slate of autonomous capabilities. While it’s only the initial offering from TRI, one thing stands out: It doesn’t look too bad! Toyota said that the research vehicle’s rig has a robust...

The narrative over the last few years has been (expectedly) that about self-driving cars hitting the road, but they’re jazzed about the prospect of having the technology in their own vehicle—but maybe ! Perhaps we just have no idea what we want in AVs. This comes from the AAA, which...

The of alleged tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into electronic items has made the rounds all day today, but one item stuck out for us: the agency apparently has been looking into hacking cars since 2014, to the surprise of (likely) . If what’s contained within...

Uber’s brash workplace culture has been front and center in recent weeks, after a former engineer wrote an essay about widespread . For employees looking to jump ship, it hasn’t been easy, . They’re stuck having to prove they’re not “assholes,” as one put it to the news outlet. The...

Bentley’s , and if it’s based off the EXP12 Speed 6e concept that debuted at Geneva this week, it’s going to be a pretty future. The new concept clearly illustrates Bentley’s intention to weasel its way into the high-performance electrified market. With the Speed 6e, it’d be doing so with...

Uber’s strange tool that was used to undermine regulators probing the company—the so-called Greyball feature—can no longer be used by employees to root out investigators and ban them from using the ride-hailing giant’s app, according to the company. The Greyball feature was revealed last week by The New York Times,...

Ford Motor Company announced this week that it’s testing 3D printing of large-scale car parts, a move that could eventually lead to the manufacturing of more fuel-efficient vehicles. 3D printing hasn’t really gone large scale like this yet, but the potential upsides are huge. At its research center in Dearborn,...

Back off, —California wants to regain some glory as a self-driving haven. The state’s department of motor vehicles announced today new regulations that would allow self-driving cars without a driver to operate on roadways. The proposed regulations, which could go into effect this fall, loosen up California’s stance toward self-driving...

Wooooo-wee, we got ourselves a good ole fashioned electric car start-up fight! Exciting! This week, electric and autonomous vehicle start-up . Looks like a fine machine. However, potential rival-pending-if-either-ever-makes-a-production-vehicle doesn’t seem to like it. That’s because, according to Faraday’s senior vice president of research & development and engineering, Nick Sampson,...

Electric startup NIO released their EP9 supercar with the biggest bang of them all: by setting lap records at the and , with and without a human driver. I had been itching for a closer look at what makes this autonomous machine so fast, so I picked the brains of...

As President Donald Trump arrives in Michigan today to announce a renewed review of vehicle emissions standards at the behest of several automakers, dozens of U.S. cities are considering the purchase of $10 billion in electric vehicles to show there’s a demand for low-emission vehicles, . Trump’s expected to say...