Tesla Model 3 Production Will Actually, Amazingly Begin On Time

Tesla founder Elon Musk confirmed late into the night Sunday that production on the automaker’s less-expensive Model 3 sedan will begin on time, in what’s tantamount to a bizarre attaboy for In a string of tweets on Sunday, Musk disclosed that Model 3 passed regulatory requirements for production, and the...

Sep 11, 2025

China's Traffic-Straddling Bus Is Definitely A Scam And Is Now Linked To 32 Arrests

Remember the Chinese traffic-straddling bus? The bonkers is-it-a-bus-or-a-train invention that was aimed at alleviating traffic? That weird looking thing that ? Turns out, it was bogus after all—and now 32 people have been arrested for their role in creating it, . The Times reports that the plan to develop a...

Sep 11, 2025

Elon Musk Says It's 'Obviously Not Cool' For Disgruntled Employees To Sue Tesla For Millions Of Dollars

Working conditions at Tesla’s California factory have garnered significant attention in recent months, with some employees going public with and , including in a number of new lawsuits. According to Tesla founder Elon Musk, it’s “obviously not cool” for employees to file suit. Huh. Back in February, The Guardian ,...

Sep 11, 2025

This Self-Driving Truck Has No Room For A Driver And It Looks Ridiculous

The idea of a fully-autonomous vehicle entails removing the driver from the equation entirely. In the trucking industry, that scenario’s expected to happen sooner than we’ll see a majority of driverless cars on the road. But one group of Swedes wants to build a truck that doesn’t even have room...

Sep 11, 2025

France Plans To Ban Sales Of Gasoline And Diesel Vehicles By 2040

France—particularly, Paris, with its dreadful air quality—has staked a battle against cars over the past several years, with , , and . Now, the government of France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, wants to ban the sale of all gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040, it’s a “veritable revolution” to “fight...

Sep 11, 2025

Court Freezes $182 Million From Faraday Future's Financier, But The Company Says That's Just Fine

A Chinese court this week froze $182 million in assets of Jia Yueting, the billionaire founder of tech giant LeEco and main financier of self-driving car start-up Faraday Future. But the company says that Jia’s financial woes will have “no impact” on FF’s daily operations and actually “aligns” with its...

Sep 11, 2025

Why Tesla Shit The Bed On Wall Street Today

Elon Musk has said Tesla so high, but he doesn’t have to think about it any longer. The automaker is no longer the most valuable car company in the U.S. after a disastrous week on Wall Street that brought its shares down a 15 percent, due in part to that...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber Now Says Its Former Engineer Actually Did Steal All Those Self-Driving Tech Files From Google

A flurry of legal filings in the battle between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car operation that says Uber schemed with a former engineer to steal trade secrets and thousands of proprietary tech files to bolster its own autonomous vehicle project. But this one is rich: Uber now says Anthony...

Sep 11, 2025

Faraday Future Halts Construction Of $1 Billion Factory In Nevada Amid Cash Crunch

Ambitious but troubled startup automaker said today that it’s officially halting efforts to build a $1 billion factory in Nevada, as its billionaire financier Jia Yueting deals with significant money problems. The move comes just days after Faraday officials told Jalopnik that Jia’s financial woes will have “no impact” on...

Sep 11, 2025

Lucid Motors Managed To Get An All-Electric Prototype To Go 235 MPH

Lucid Motors doesn’t have the money yet to , an all-electric luxury sedan among many considered to be . But the nascent automaker has shown it’s at least capable of producing a car that goes super fast: A video released on Monday shows an Air prototype flying around a racetrack...

Sep 11, 2025

The New Semi-Autonomous Audi A8 Will Let Drivers Watch Television At The Wheel

The 2018 Audi A8 is here, and like all German flagship sedans it looks like it will be wildly over-engineered. Among the endless luxury features in the new sedan, one stands out: Traffic Jam Pilot. Audi says this semi-autonomous mode actually lets drivers screw around and watch television instead of...

Sep 11, 2025

How Google Is Teaching Robot Cars To Respond To Emergency Vehicles

In order for driverless cars to work, they’ll need to be able to do tackle a bevy of ordinary tasks that motorists perform each day: navigate roadways, stay within a lane, stop for pedestrians who unexpectedly cross their path and successfully pull over for police cruisers or fire trucks needing...

Sep 11, 2025

'Billions' Will Be Lost In The Bloodbath That Is The Self-Driving Car Race

Auto and tech companies are feverishly working to develop and perfect self-driving cars, but in due time, the industry’s going to turn into a raging bloodbath, , with “billions and billions” of dollars wasted on boneheaded moves that go nowhere. The study, from consultant AlixPartnersLLP, estimates that more than 50...

Sep 11, 2025

Who Will Clean Up Barf In Robot Taxis? I Have The Solution

A this morning details one of the myriad issues that need to be addressed before driverless robotaxis can be deployed by the likes of General Motors and Uber: how to clean up a passengers’ puke. A start-up in San Francisco offers one idea—a 24/7 cleaning service—but I think there’s a...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla Driver In Marsh Crash Now Says It Was His Fault And Not Autopilot's

Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature caught flak on Sunday, as it appeared a driver had for causing his car to suddenly accelerate, head off a road, and roll over into a marsh. On Monday, his story changed. It wasn’t Autopilot’s fault, he said, it was his own. The incident began on...

Sep 11, 2025