Uber And Faraday Future Should Work On Autonomous Vehicles Together

Up front, it’s probably necessary to say that I haven’t considered the financial viability of this for either party, or whether their business plans are even sound. But I think it could benefit both of them: Faraday Future and Uber, two troubled companies facing an uncertain future in different ways....

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Fires Engineer At The Center Of Self-Driving Tech Theft Lawsuit With Google (Updated)

Uber on Tuesday fired the self-driving engineer at the center of its high-profile litigation with Google’s driverless car project, . The move comes nearly two weeks after Uber urged the engineer, Anthony Levandowski, to comply with a federal judge’s order to turn over allegedly stolen autonomous tech files or else...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber's Self-Driving Truck Unit Is Being Investigated By The California DMV For Its Road Tests

Uber’s laundry list of problems aren’t just confined to the ride-hailing start-up’s operations—its driverless truck unit, formerly known as Otto, is now set to be investigated by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s trying to determine, , if Uber violated state regulations by understating the capabilities of its trucks...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Once Called UberPool Riders 'Masters' and 'Minions'

There’s “Heaven View” (weird), “Greyball” (strange), “Hell” (great idea), and probably an entire laundry list of strange Uber codenames we still haven’t learned about. Here’s a new one, courtesy of from BuzzFeed’s Priya Anand: The company used to refer to the first passenger in an UberPool ride is called “a...

Sep 10, 2025

Michigan Takes Steps Towards Building Its Own Intelligent Freeways

Vehicle-to-infrastructure tech (V2I) is a tool often touted by some automakers as being key to making the roads safer by allowing cars to communicate with traffic signals and the like. Late last month, General Motors and the state of Michigan announced they had taken tiny, but crucial, steps on the...

Sep 10, 2025

Elon Musk Says He'll Perform Same Tasks As Workers Injured At Tesla's Factory

Maybe . Tesla has been under fire in recent months over working conditions at the automaker’s California factory. To make amends (or a publicity stunt), Elon Musk says he’ll now jump in and work the line to perform the same tasks as every employee who’s injured on the job. The...

Sep 10, 2025

AAA Raises Insurance Rates On Tesla Vehicles Because Repairs Are So Costly

National insurer AAA said it’s raising rates for Tesla Model S and X vehicles, due to a high frequency of claims and costly repairs, . Tesla decried the move in near Trumpian-fashion as being based on an analysis that’s “not reflective of reality.” AAA based its analysis off data from...

Sep 10, 2025

U.S. Transportation Secretary Somehow Still Clueless On Autonomous Cars

Elaine Chao, the U.S. transportation secretary, or where the technology behind them stands today, yet on Monday she implored Silicon Valley to “step up” and explain robot cars better to the public in order to assuage any fears people might have. It’s an interesting take from the secretary, who just...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber Just Fired More Than 20 People In Sexual Harassment Investigation: Report

Uber’s internal probe of sexual harassment has led to the firing of more than 20 employees, reports. Investigators already for a deeper probe of Uber’s work culture, and of the 12,000 full-time employees there, Bloomberg reports that more than 200 claims were investigated. The probe started with a widely shared...

Sep 10, 2025

Fisker's Real $130,000 Electric Car Is Toned Down But Still Pretty Crazy

Fisker has released three teaser images of its real $130,000 electric car called the , and it’s definitely a tamer look than the Hot Wheels concept car from a few months ago. It looks like an alien ship from Independence Day disguised as an early-2000s Japanese luxury car. Along with...

Sep 10, 2025

Do You Know The Deposit Count For Tesla's Model 3?

Way back in the spring of 2016, Tesla announced that it had , which requires a $1,000 deposit form every prospective buyer. Ever since, the automaker has refused to officially give an updated tally. What gives? The company didn’t provide an update when I asked on Tuesday. It’s a frustrating,...

Sep 10, 2025

Inside The Mess At Faraday Future That Drove Out One Of The World's Top Auditors

Startup automaker hired the best, as it often did, when it needed an audit of its finances to help secure vital fundraising and government loans. But what auditor KPMG—one of the world’s biggest and most well-regarded auditing firms—walked into when it agreed to look at Faraday’s books was a company...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber's Handling Of Horrible Rape Case Is Getting The Outrage It Deserves

On Wednesday, it emerged that an Uber exec had raped by an Uber driver in December 2014. Uber execs believed that Ola, the ride-hailing giant’s rival in India, was behind the incident, in an attempt to frame the company. Ola has since fired back, calling Uber “despicable” and “low on...

Sep 10, 2025

Stop Saying Dumb Shit

We’re barely a year removed from the , whose semi-autonomous vehicle was traveling in its hands-somewhat-free Autopilot mode at the time of the accident. And still misleading bullshit about the current capability of autonomous tech continues to be floated: on Wednesday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee . Foolproof, he says. In...

Sep 10, 2025

Uber's CEO Wrote A Sex Guide For Employees And It's As Bad As You'd Think

Here’s a line you’ve heard before: . And now of an internal 2013 email penned by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, in which he advised employees on how to have sex with colleagues. Guidance for this sort of thing can be good, , but Kalanick’s memo is as terrible as you’d...

Sep 10, 2025