Get Ready For Cars That Know Your Body Better Than You Do

In Harry Potter, the wand chooses the wizard. In the future, the car might choose the driver. Researchers at Deutsche Telekom are making cars that know exactly what you look like, can read your vitals and will even sense your neurological activity, reports. The car will ideally use a camera...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber’s Alleged Plot To Take Google’s Tech Probably Began Sooner Than Anyone Thought

A week before ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski allegedly stole self-driving car trade secrets from the tech giant, the ride-hailing company Uber had drafted a term sheet to acquire what appears to have been his future autonomous vehicle project, Otto, according to court records filed Friday. Levandowski is the engineer at...

Sep 11, 2025

The Next Generation Mazda3 Is Coming Soon And It May Have New Engine Technology

Mazda may be well on its way to introducing a new already, and reports indicate the new model may be bringing along an all-new, sparkless ignition gasoline engine with it. The new homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is set to be an industry first, which Mazda reportedly plans to preview...

Sep 11, 2025

Faraday Future Found A New Factory To Replace Its Non-Existent One

Weeks after Faraday Future announced it would halt construction of a $1 billion factory in Nevada, the company said on Monday that it has a new lease on life, after securing a facility in California to continue efforts to build an all-electric autonomous car. In a statement that represents some...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber Plans To Significantly Alter Its Reportedly Disastrous Subprime Lending Program

Uber has long been criticized for lending practices designed to reel in prospective drivers to the ride-hailing company, particularly their program to . Now, facing significant losses, the company’s planning to wind down the lending business, according to the . Uber’s business model requires a constant influx of drivers, so...

Sep 11, 2025

Lyft Says It'll Always Have On Human Drivers In Its Network

In recent months, Lyft has unveiled a multi-pronged approach to self-driving cars. There’s a new division in the company that’s expected to focus entirely on developing self-driving tech for Lyft; a number of partnerships with tech giants and autonomous vehicle developers are aimed at bringing robotcars to Lyft’s ride-hailing network...

Sep 11, 2025

No Matter What Happens To Tesla, The Model S Is An Amazing Machine

“You park it,” the brusque, fifty-something attendant told me as he stared down a . As far as I could tell, this Brooklyn parking garage had a simple protocol: drivers leave their keys with the attendant on-duty, thereby allowing them to find whatever spot fits into the Tetris-like equation that...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla Buyers Say They’re Being Pushed To Get A Model S Over A Model 3

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made it no secret that he’d like to “anti-sell” the , as a way to tamper high demand and perhaps avoid siphoning off interest for the company’s more expensive and more profitable vehicles, the Model S and X. Well, it seems some of the automaker’s...

Sep 11, 2025

Ford Patents Removable Wheel And Pedals For Autonomous Cars

A commonly held view toward self-driving cars is that, once the vehicles become fully-automated, a steering wheel and pedals are no longer be needed. Ford appears to be taking an interesting approach to the idea, with a new patent that allows for removable parts that could be plopped back in...

Sep 11, 2025

Ford's New CEO's Comment About The Future Of Autonomous Cars Is A Breath Of Fresh Air

When Ford parted ways with CEO Mark Fields earlier this year, part of the reason had to do with how he positioned the automaker for the future—particularly in autonomous cars. Fields’ replacement, Jim Hackett, is spending his first 100 days trying to assess his shop and get a grasp on...

Sep 11, 2025

Google Is Using A Virtual World To Test Self-Driving Cars Called 'Carcraft'

Waymo, the self-driving car project launched by Google, has been at the forefront of developing autonomous technology, having rolled out while to deploy robotcars on the road. Part of the company’s effort development efforts also relies upon testing autonomous cars in a virtual world created by one of the company’s...

Sep 11, 2025

Cummins Beats Tesla To The Punch And Introduces An All-Electric Heavy-Duty Truck

With Tesla purportedly gearing up to introduce an all-electric semi next month, diesel engine supplier Cummins took some of the automaker’s buzz away on Tuesday, revealed an all-electric prototype truck of its own. Billed as a Class 7 Urban Hauler Tractor, the 18,000-pound truck was built by Roush and is...

Sep 11, 2025

I Want To Know How Self-Driving Cars Will Respond In The Rare Occasion They're Pulled Over By Someone Impersonating A Cop

As far as I can tell, there’s no definitive data on how often someone’s pulled over by a fake cop. But it’s not unheard of for some moron to ! So, when Google revealed last month that it , I had a thought—however seldom this may occur: What happens if...

Sep 11, 2025

The Fully-Autonomous Electric Smart ForTwo Concept Car Has A Grille That Will Greet You With 'Hey'

Mercedes-Benz has lately over the new Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Cabrio, which doesn’t jibe well for the tiny car subsidiary, which intends to sell only electric vehicles . But electric Smart cars —they’re meant for cities after all—and a new autonomous all-electric Smart concept shows how they can work in...

Sep 11, 2025

This Is What Happens When You Put 300,000 Miles On A Tesla Model S

If you live on the West Coast, the company can give you a ride if you’re traveling around California. As you can expect, the company’s cars accrue serious mileage in a short timespan—and indeed, Tesloop says its first car, a Model S, just rolled over 300,000 miles on the odometer....

Sep 11, 2025