What Does Trump Mean By Killing ‘Any Regulation That Undermines American Auto Production’?

At a speech in Michigan to confirm that his administration , President Donald Trump said the following: “We’re setting up a task force in every federal agency to identify and remove any regulation that undermines American auto production.” That could affect the auto industry in countless ways, so what exactly...

Sep 10, 2025

Google's Autonomous Tech Lawsuit Looks Really Bad For Uber

year hasn’t gone well. But it could get much worse, if it ends up on the losing side of a case filed by Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo. And the case, which alleges Uber’s autonomous driving system designs were created as the result of brazen theft by a former Waymo...

Sep 10, 2025

Faraday Future's Chinese Backer Forced To Sell Land In 'Company Disease' Cash Crunch: Report

might talk a bunch of shit, but maybe executives at the start-up automaker should hold back for awhile because its financial troubles are becoming crystallized. It’s main-backer, a Chinese billionaire, is looking to sell expensive land it purchased from Yahoo only a year ago, thanks to a serious cash crunch....

Sep 10, 2025

'Safety Third' Is The Running Joke At Uber's Self-Driving Car Unit

Yesterday, we zeroed in on the latest between and Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo, courtesy of a superbly-detailed profile of the situation . But there’s one more factoid that’s worth pulling out: they actually have “Safety Third” as a slogan. Much as it’s something we use , it’s a joke...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Is Losing A Ton Of People

I guess it’s to be expected when your company is accused of , is run by , and could be entirely derailed thanks to the —but damn, Uber is losing a flurry of people. The latest is Jeff Jones, the ride-hailing giant’s president who, last month, conducted a disaster of...

Sep 10, 2025

Chinese Web Giant Baidu Claims 'Hackers-For-Hire' Tried Stealing Its Driverless Car Tech

So it looks like the driverless car war might have expanded overseas: China’s top search engine, Baidu, is claiming that a gang of “hackers for hire” attempted to steal its autonomous technology, . Look out, Uber and Waymo! The story’s short on details, but Bloomberg quoted the company’s cybersecurity head,...

Sep 10, 2025

Artist Imagines How We Might Trap Autonomous Cars In The Future

Our future robot car overlords might do anything from safely carting us around town to —and who knows, on occasion, maybe they’ll get a little confused. We all do! Artist published a fun video last week showing a goofy scenario where that maybe could happen to a self-driving car. It’s...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Employees Use Secret Tools To Target Drivers And Undercut Competition

Three years ago, ride-hailing giant came under investigation for that allowed employees to track drivers and customers in real-time. Uber has since scaled that ability back, but Jalopnik has learned the company still deploys a revamped version of it, along with other secret internal tools, to target its drivers who...

Sep 10, 2025

This Is What Happens When Robot Cars And Human-Driven Cars Mix

Back in December, as Uber transferred its from California to Arizona, a police officer in Phoenix offered a rather innocuous comment about what lies ahead: “Now you’ve introduced these situations where you’ve got manned vehicles and unmanned vehicles,” . One of those situations—a three-way crash in the city of Tempe...

Sep 10, 2025

Shit Finally Gets Real For Faraday Future

increasingly appears to be in a tenuous position, and now it seems the company is starting to realize as much: the the troubled start-up has ended talks with the city of Vallejo on a 157-acre site, and instead focus on completing the not-nearly-completed $1 billion factory in Nevada. last year...

Sep 10, 2025

Here’s What You Have To Do To Get Behind The Wheel Of A Robot Car

Back in December Uber refused to pay for to put semi-autonomous vehicles on the road in California. But that regulatory standoff ended this month when the company reversed course and said . So, Jalopnik snagged a copy of the application. One notable part: it includes the program Uber gives to...

Sep 10, 2025

Lyft Is Not A 'Better Boyfriend'

Uber has had a relentless year of scandals, spurring the logical conclusion that its arch-rival Lyft is now in . John Zimmer, Lyft’s president, spoke at length on Tuesday with Time about how his company’s attempting to do just that—and it’s ridiculous. At a moment when Uber’s reeling from ,...

Sep 10, 2025

How Cars Could 'Talk' To Each Other In The Future—And Why That Has To Happen

The phrase V2V, meaning vehicle-to-vehicle communication, gets tossed around a lot when autonomous cars and the future of car safety come up. But it’s not some far-off thing: it’s becoming a reality on current cars, with Cadillac in particular launching it as standard on all 2017 CTS sedans. So what...

Sep 10, 2025

The Judge In The Waymo VS. Uber Case Is Not Fucking Around

Uber has taken some serious flak over the last 48 hours for its effort to move its into arbitration. But the judge overseeing the case, William Alsup, says both parties are over-redacting pleadings like crazy and that he is “not going to put up with it.” “If we’re going to...

Sep 10, 2025

Guess Who's Winning The Autonomous Race? The Car Companies That Actually Build Cars

Silicon Valley’s usually viewed as the epicenter for the purported self-driving car revolution that’s before us, but a new study says traditional automakers are ahead of the curve when it comes to making that dream a reality. The independent study from the firm Navigant reviewed 18 companies, based on everything...

Sep 10, 2025