Auto Execs Finally Admit Our Driverless Future Isn’t, Like, Two Years Away

You get so much at CES these days: microchips, , , gadgets for and desperate pleas for VC money. One thing you don’t often get is realism. But at this year’s tech show, auto and startup executives alike are tamping down expectations about when our autonomous, driverless robot car future...

Sep 11, 2025

Maybe It's Not As Hard As We Thought To Solve The Electric Charging Infrastructure Problem

Automakers are lining up to , but as many in the industry know, the currently tiny EV market isn’t going to grow without a serious boom in fast charging infrastructure. But it might be an easier problem to solve than most think. It’s a weird conundrum: if carmakers want to...

Sep 11, 2025

It's Surprising That Auto-Parking Tech Has Yet To Be More Widely Adopted

In 2013, that allowed an A7 to navigate a parking garage and then back into a spot seamlessly. This year’s iteration of the conference showed the industry’s still trying to pursue more auto-parking aids. Numerous automakers from Ford to Tesla have adopted some form of automated parking into their cars...

Sep 11, 2025

Turns Out Uber Had Yet Another Secret Program To Thwart Police Raids: Report

Uber is currently facing as many as five criminal probes over various schemes from the company’s earlier years under former-CEO Travis Kalanick, but could face more legal scrutiny thanks to yet another secret program . The ride-hailing company, well-known for its reputation to flout regulations, had a practice of stymying...

Sep 11, 2025

How This Tiny Virginia Company Is Running Circles Around The Self-Driving Car Industry

A couple weeks back, self-driving tech company Torc Robotics was testing one of its cars in public when a driver in a Kia almost ran it off the road—purposely. The driver was “super aggressive in front of us,” said Michael Fleming, Torc’s CEO, “and then they switched back into the...

Sep 11, 2025

General Motors Will Unveil A Driverless Concept Car Tomorrow With No Steering Wheel Or Pedals

General Motors will unveil a new driverless concept car as early as Friday that doesn’t have a steering wheel or pedals, the latest salvo in the company’s efforts to deploy autonomous vehicles onto public roads. The debut was confirmed by sources familiar with the matter and documents seen by Jalopnik....

Sep 11, 2025

Here’s The First Exclusive Image Of GM’s Driverless Car Without A Steering Wheel (UPDATED)

General Motors is expected Friday to unveil a new driverless concept car without a steering wheel or pedals, , and now we have a first look at the vehicle’s interior. GM and its autonomous car unit, Cruise Automation, will submit a report Friday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

Sep 11, 2025

Rinspeed's Snap Perfectly Captures What Can Be Done With An Autonomous Car

Rinspeed's Crazy Autonomous Concept | CES The auto industry’s flooded with ideas right now about how to advance the goal of producing self-driving cars, but no concept as of late comes close to what Rinspeed produced in a new vehicle the Swiss automaker calls Snap—a roving, autonomous pod-like thing that’s...

Sep 11, 2025

Stop Doing This Shit With Semi-Autonomous Cars

There are many issues with putting semi-autonomous cars on the market, not the least of which being customers what “semi” means and car companies outright . But the worst part might not be the people who misunderstand it—it might be the people who do. This video popped up on Reddit,...

Sep 11, 2025

My Ride In A Self-Driving Lyft Showed How Far Autonomous Tech Still Has To Go

A Look at Lyft/Aptiv's Self-Driving Car | CES If you’re looking for an example of how far self-driving technology has to go before it’s ready to be adopted en masse, take my ride in one of Lyft’s first autonomous cars: On a demo ride earlier this month, the vehicle came...

Sep 11, 2025

Two More High-Ranking Tesla Employees Are Out Amid Model 3 Production Issues

This month, Tesla said that issues with , but the hiccups have caused a months-long delay to the automaker’s manufacturing schedule for 2018. Now two high-ranking employees involved with launching the Model 3 line left the company in recent weeks, Jalopnik has learned. Jason Mendez, who joined Tesla back in...

Sep 11, 2025

Now Uber Says It Also Could Deploy Cars Without A Driver As Early As 2019

Google’s self-driving car unit as part of a pilot project. General Motors says it wants to have . Eric Meyhofer, the head of Uber’s Advanced Technology Group, in an interview Wednesday said the company’s autonomous technology is developing at a pace similar to the rest of the industry. But Uber...

Sep 11, 2025

Former Uber CEO Began 'Squirming On The Floor' In Response To Video Of Him Berating A Driver

Remember a year ago when a video emerged of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick berating a driver? When Kalanick learned the clip had been published online, he “...literally got down on his hands and knees and began squirming on the floor.” That’s just one of a litany of anecdotes strung...

Sep 11, 2025

Boss Of Automaker With Most-Hated Infotainment System Ever Talks Shit On Apple CarPlay

Oh, here’s a fun one. You may remember Cadillac’s CUE as the long-running poster child , to the point where the laggy and convoluted setup actually dinged Cadillac’s cars in . Now Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen is here with The Takes about in-car technology, and his target is... Apple...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla Driver Who Slammed Into Parked Firetruck On California Freeway Says Car Was On Autopilot (UPDATED)

A Tesla Model S driver smashed into the back of a parked firetruck Monday morning, according to California fire officials, and claims the car was in its semi-autonomous Autopilot mode when it happened. The car hit a truck around 8:30 a.m. Monday on Interstate 405 in Culver City, according to...

Sep 11, 2025