Tesla Is Kind Of Walking Back Those Outrageous Production Goals

Time and again in recent months, Tesla founder Elon Musk has reiterated the automaker’s production goals for the coming years: a half-million cars annually by 2018, a million by 2020. But now it seems like he’s taking a defensive crouch to deflect any potential outrage, were that goal not to...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber's Internal Probe Of Sexual Harassment At The Company Won't Include Treatment Of Drivers

An internal investigation into Uber’s workplace, sparked by a former engineer’s widespread essay about , is expected to wrap in the coming days. But a thorough report from that’ll be missing from the review: Uber’s drivers, as they aren’t considered full-time employees, just contractors. The impact of the arrangement is...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla Will Limit Your Fast Charging Rate If You Charge It Too Quickly Too Much

Tesla slows down charging rates on its Superchargers for vehicles that use a DC fast-connect charge too many times, , which highlighted the situation after a about a recent road trip. As Electrek notes, the owner’s charging habits are a bit unusual for someone with a Tesla. The news that...

Sep 10, 2025

Here's A Look At Uber Freight, The Company's Long-Haul Trucking Project

Uber’s currently with Google’s parent company Alphabet over its self-driving car designs, but the ride-hailing behemoth doesn’t seem to be slowing down just yet. The company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, posted a photo over the weekend of a large semi that appears to be the first look at its long-hauling truck...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla Will Now Be Sending 'Short Video Clips' Collected From Your Car Back To The Company

In recent days, Tesla has rolled out a new Autopilot update along with a revamped data sharing policy, which asks drivers for access to “short video clips” from external cameras. Drivers can opt-in to the new data sharing policy, , which asks for access to the video footage to make...

Sep 10, 2025

Faraday Future Is Still Out Here Trying To Make It Happen: Video

We’re nearly halfway through 2017, and as far as we know, Faraday Future still believes it’s going to restart production on its Nevada factory this year. The company’s dealing with lawsuits , , and its alleged . But it has a production vehicle, the FF 91, and there’s a new...

Sep 10, 2025

This Video Perfectly Explains The Levels Of Autonomous Driving

In discussions about autonomous driving, it’s easy to fall into a trap of defining the technology with a broad brushstroke. But there are explicit differences between something as simple as “semi-autonomous” (what we have on the road toady) and “autonomous” (what carmakers want on the road by next decade). This...

Sep 10, 2025

Americans Are Willing To Pay Almost $5,000 For Autonomous Car Tech, Smart People Say

The average new car in the U.S. is sold for over . That’s a hefty chunk of change, and with electrification and autonomous vehicle tech, that figure could get even higher. The question is: how high? How much, for example, are people willing to pay extra for self-driving technology? According...

Sep 10, 2025

I'll Tell You Where They Should Test Autonomous Cars: New York Fuckin' City

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo that the state is accepting applications from companies to test autonomous cars on public roads. The new legislation offers a year-long program that expires on April 1, 2018, and the application can be . You have to be an “autonomous vehicle technology” manufacturer or...

Sep 10, 2025

Google Founder Disguised Himself During A Driverless Car Race To Hire A Dude

This is neat. For several years, Google heavily invested in efforts to build driverless cars, with a separate subsidiary named now entirely focused on it. Turns out, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin lured a high-profile autonomous car expert to the company at a driverless car race way back...

Sep 10, 2025

Here's A Map Of 263 Companies Involved In Developing Autonomous Cars

Everyone knows Silicon Valley is completely immersed in the race to develop autonomous cars, but the above map illustrates just how extensive that effort has become. Developed by venture capital firm Comet Labs, the map lays out a whopping 263 companies intertwined with the robot car dream. “Because this is...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Just Lost Its Attempt To Keep Its Court Battle With Waymo Out Of The Public Eye

The lawsuit between Google’s self-driving car project Waymo and Uber is proceeding to trial, after a judge late Thursday denied Uber’s request to move the case to arbitration and out of the public eye. The judge, William Alsup, also referred the case for a criminal investigation over possible trade secrets...

Sep 10, 2025

Here's A Weird Autonomous Chinese-Market SUV Running Around California

Recently, if you’re in Silicon Valley, it’s not that unlikely that at some point you’ll encounter some boring SUV wearing a car-hat covered in sensors and LIDAR and all the other cybernetic crap needed to make a car autonomous. What is genuinely weird to see is all this stuff stuck...

Sep 10, 2025

Google And Lyft Team Up To Put Yet Another Nail In Uber’s Coffin

This is rich. On Sunday, Waymo announced it inked a deal with Uber’s arch-rival Lyft to collaborate on autonomous vehicle technology. Oof. Google’s self-driving car project could potentially scuttle Uber’s autonomous driving ambitions for months. If Waymo prevails in that effort, it could be the coup de grâce for Uber....

Sep 10, 2025

Judge Spares Uber's Self-Driving Car Program, For Now

A federal judge has ordered Uber to remove a key engineer at the center of its high-stakes litigation with Google’s self-driving car project from participating in the development of a key piece of autonomous driving technology. But the judge, William Alsup, allowed Uber’s self-driving research to continue while the case...

Sep 10, 2025