'Accidental Billionaire': How The Outlandish Ambition Of Faraday Future's Financier Brought The Startup To Its Knees

In Rancho Palos Verdes, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, there’s a 7,800 square foot mansion that sits atop a picturesque bluff, offering sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. Across two stories, the home contains six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a three-car garage, and privacy. Google Maps doesn’t offer a streetview...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber's Buy Of 24,000 Autonomous Volvos Doesn't Seem To Reconcile Its Inability To Turn A Profit Yet

Uber’s announcement on Monday that —for one thing, it’s the first mass order of robotaxis, another sign of how confident the auto industry and Silicon Valley feels about self-driving technology. But for a company that considered the news doesn’t seem to reconcile the fact that Uber still hasn’t figured out...

Sep 11, 2025

Please Do Not Try To Fly The Tesla Roadster

On paper, the new Tesla Roadster is a tour de force with a claimed range of 620 miles, a 0-60 time of 1.9 seconds. It’s seriously impressive, but , a “special upgrade” package for the car could allow it to fly. I thought Musk was kidding. Apparently some of you...

Sep 11, 2025

Here's How Uber Wants To Prevent People From Barfing In A Self-Driving Car

Barf is one of the many problems that need to be addressed before driverless robotaxis hit the road, and Uber—which just placed a massive —recently laid out plans for a system aimed at preventing you or I from getting motion sickness while being ferried around in a self-driving car. As...

Sep 11, 2025

Uber Security Breach Exposed Personal Data Of 57 Million Customers And Drivers

Uber concealed a massive breach for more than a year, in which hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber, . The company’s new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, he didn’t learn of the breach until recently. According to Bloomberg, the October 2016 attack compromised names, email...

Sep 11, 2025

Apple's Secretive Car Program Might Have A Way For Autonomous Cars To Spot 3D Objects

Apple spent most of 2016 , but this year, the tech conglomerate showed it . Now, a layer of the company’s famed secrecy has been peeled back, as Apple researchers have published a paper on how it believes self-driving cars can better spot cyclists and pedestrians with fewer sensors. The...

Sep 11, 2025

Investigation Highlights How Child Labor Could Be Used To Mine Essential Mineral For Electric Cars

Global demand for cobalt, an essential element in electric car batteries, . But in some parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where about half of all cobalt comes from, , an allegation that taints an ever-relevant supply chain for the auto industry. On Wednesday, the London Metal Exchange said...

Sep 11, 2025

What If Autonomous Cars Just Never Happen?

More and more semi-autonomous cars cruise on the road every day, and yet the more time I spend testing these driver-assisted vehicles, the more I think that full autonomy may never, ever happen. A harsh look on all of this was first laid out all the way back in the...

Sep 11, 2025

Apple Might Be Leasing Chrysler's Old Proving Grounds To Test Autonomous Car Technology

Apple appears to be leasing a former Fiat Chrysler-owned proving grounds in Arizona to test autonomous vehicles, according to a source familiar with the matter. It’s the latest sign that one of the largest technology companies in the world isn’t as done with autonomous vehicles as expected, following the crash...

Sep 11, 2025

GM's Self-Driving Bolt Gets Publicly Stumped By Taco Truck

Ahead of a big meeting with Wall Street investors this week to lay out its General Motors showed off its self-driving cars in San Francisco, offering the first public test rides for non-employees. Carmakers are trying to move lightning fast to bring autonomous cars to life, but to make it...

Sep 11, 2025

Chris Bangle's New Car Is This Radical City Electric

A few months back when Chris Bangle took a moment to , the former BMW design chief drummed up anticipation for a new car he’d been working on, saying the design was so “liberating” it . This week, Bangle introduced that car, called REDS, and he really wasn’t kidding around....

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla Internal Quality Checks 'Routinely' Reveal Defects In Model S And Model X Cars: Report

Internal quality checks at Tesla have “routinely revealed” defects in more than 90 percent of Model S and X vehicles after they come off the production line, . Tesla countered by saying any reworking of cars post-assembly shows that it’s committed to quality. Reuters spoke with nine current and former...

Sep 11, 2025

Okay Sure: Elon Musk Also Wants To Build A ‘Loop’ In Chicago

In Elon Musk’s version of a high-wire juggling act, there’s to build, , , on the east coast, , to run, and to fulfill. On Wednesday, the Tesla CEO added another item to the list: a new high-speed transit system to connect the City of Chicago with O’Hare Airport. Why...

Sep 11, 2025

GM Aims To Get Ahead Of Everyone With Autonomous Ride-Sharing Service In Multiple Cities By 2019

General Motors rolled out a long-term game plan for autonomous cars Thursday morning to investors, and the big takeaway so far is that it thinks it can launch a fully-autonomous ride-sharing service by 2019 in “multiple cities.” That’d put it well-ahead of competitors and their own timelines. Only general details...

Sep 11, 2025

How To Drive In A Future Where Driving Is Banned

I know this is weird to talk about for car enthusiasts, but the U.S. Department of Transportation says it wants to move the nation toward a , where traffic fatalities become relegated to history. In theory, this sounds nice; in practice, it’s probably impossible—unless there’s a ban on driving. So...

Sep 11, 2025