How McLaren Engineers Built Armor To Save A Man From Debilitating Injuries

It’s a real-life Iron Man story: a billionaire is terribly injured in a way that doesn’t kill him, but leaves him in constant pain and risk of further health problems, so he turns to technology of the highest order to protect him and save his life. It’s not a comic...

Sep 11, 2025

Self-Driving Car Patents Are Weird And Awesome

Removable steering wheels, conference room-styles seating in cars, see-through doors. The self-driving car race is fueling a boom in quirky, eye-popping ideas and a crush of patents are being filed by automakers, something highlighted by a today. What’s interesting about the WSJ piece is the sentiment expressed by traditional automakers...

Sep 11, 2025

Watch Bollinger's New All-Electric Truck Speed Around A Track

When we had the chance to see Bollinger’s new all-electric truck, it came across as a straightforward, basic ride—which is good! And now we have a look at how the car performs, thanks to by Bollingers on Tuesday. The brief clips offer little new insight into the company, , but...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber's Legal Fight With Google Could Screw Its Self-Driving Truck Employees

In August 2016, Uber purchased autonomous truck startup Otto in a deal that reportedly called for Otto employees to receive 20 percent of . It seemed like a nice deal for any startup. But now that lucrative arrangement may be torpedoed, leaving Otto employees who joined Uber to work on...

Sep 11, 2025

Nevada Is Done With Faraday Future As Car Startup Gives Back Taxpayer Money

Last winter, came out of nowhere with big promises to upend the auto industry and redefine the entire idea of how we get around. None of that has happened because making cars is hard. Now, a tax deal between the state of Nevada and FF is officially over, and the...

Sep 11, 2025

New Uber CEO Apologizes For 'Mistakes' After Company Is Banned From Operating In London

Dara Khosrowshahi, the new CEO of Uber, has a growing pile of issues to address at the ride-hailing company—the latest being a decision by the London transit authority to by the end of the month. In response, Khosrowshahi penned , apologizing for what he said was “the mistakes we’ve made.”...

Sep 11, 2025

You'll Soon Be Able To Yell At Amazon's Alexa In Your 2018 BMW

Have you ever screamed into the dashboard of your car and wished that someone (or something) would hear you? BMW is making that dream a reality because they are adding Amazon’s Alexa to their 2018 BMW and Mini models. BMW says that adding Alexa will make their cars a more...

Sep 11, 2025

New Ford CEO: I Wouldn't Get Into A Fully-Autonomous Car Just Yet

Only one-in-four Americans trust the idea of self-driving cars right now, and among that group is Ford’s newly-installed chief executive, Jim Hackett. Ford may be working to deploy a fully-autonomous car on public roads by 2021, but Hackett said Monday that he wouldn’t ride in one just yet, . In...

Sep 11, 2025

GM Joins Electric Revolution And Plans 20 EVs By 2023 (UPDATED)

General Motors is planning to unleash an electrified onslaught of cars in the coming years, announcing on Monday that it’ll push out at least 20 all-electric vehicles by 2023. The first two are expected within the next 18 months, the company said. The announcement Monday as a piece of its...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla Misses Model 3 Production Goal Over 'Manufacturing Bottleneck'

Tesla has sky-high expectations for the release of the all-electric Model 3 sedan, including benchmarks set by the company’s CEO, Elon Musk. The automaker managed to get production rolling by a Musk-imposed July deadline, but it made only 260 Model 3s ever since—. In the third quarter of 2017, Tesla...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber Hired Driverless Car Engineer Despite Uncertainty Over Whether He Took And Kept Google Tech Files

Uber hired an engineer from Google to run its self-driving car program, even after an internal report cast uncertainty over whether he took—and kept—proprietary information from his former employer. The report, commissioned by Uber to determine the risks in hiring the engineer, Anthony Levandowski, was made public late Monday as...

Sep 11, 2025

This Might Be Our First Look At Tesla's All-Electric Semi-Truck

There’s little known about the all-electric semi truck that Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to unveil later this month. But now we have an apparent snapshot of what it’ll look like. The image surfaced yesterday . The initial post was deleted, but another Reddit user captured it in time and...

Sep 11, 2025

A Judge Has Delayed The Google VS. Uber Self-Driving Car Trial (UPDATED)

A federal judge has granted a request by Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, to delay the company’s high-stakes trial against Uber until December. The hotly-contested legal battle between Waymo and Uber dates to February, when the former filed a lawsuit against the latter, alleging that Uber used a former Google...

Sep 11, 2025

New Ford CEO Plans To Slash And Burn And Pour Money Into Electrification

New Ford CEO Jim Hackett unveiled a vision for the automaker Tuesday that aligns it with trends emerging across the auto industry, with an emphasis on electrification and mobility (The Future™), all the while slashing costs by $14 billion. The new outline for Ford was expected from Hackett, who took...

Sep 11, 2025

Americans Are Super Scared About Driverless Cars Getting Hacked: Study

Developing an autonomous car that’s deemed safe is one thing. Convincing the majority of skeptical Americans autonomous cars are ready for primetime driving action, not so much. A new study echoes previous findings—most consumers remain uneasy about the technology—but the survey from American International Group found the greatest concern could...

Sep 11, 2025