Okay, E-Scooters Are Fine, But They Need to be Parked Somewhere

A couple months back I declared that, despite having yet to try one out, and, more specifically, the idea they could supplant other modes of transportation in some cities. Well, I tried out a scooter from one of the many scooter startups, Bird, while in Detroit last week, and now...

Sep 12, 2025

Jaguar's New Autonomous Car Has a Face and It's Horrifying

If there is anything you flesh-bags known as “humans” love most, it is large, cold, unfeeling robots with unblinking, cow-like eyes and gaping maws that look like they’re trying to scream and scream and scream, but no sounds comes out. Deeply understanding this affection, Jaguar Land-Rover has built an autonomous...

Sep 12, 2025

Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Trouble With Basic Driving Tasks: Report

If the autonomous revolution ever arrives, it’s almost certain that self-driving cars will drive with an over-abundance of caution, which makes sense, but will surely irritate regular drivers on the road in the interim. Case in point: dug into the ongoing Arizona pilot program launched by Waymo, Google’s self-driving car...

Sep 12, 2025

This is What You Need to Know About Car Subscriptions

Subscription services are the norm nowadays. You can subscribe to Netflix to watch movies, to Spotify to listen to music, and to Blue Apron to try out new foods. So, why not start subscribing to cars? Basically, a car subscription is exactly what it sounds like. You don’t have to...

Sep 12, 2025

The Volvo 360c Concept Solves One of the Biggest Problems With Self-Driving Cars

Volvo an autonomous car that you can “eat, sleep, do whatever” in by 2021, an aggressive target but one illustrative of the company’s desire to skip over altogether and go straight to full autonomy. Today, it showed off a concept car called the 360c that reveals a bit more about...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Sales Staff Told Driver in Model S Crash That the Car Would Brake For Stopped Obstacles: Lawsuit

A Utah driver whose Tesla Model S crashed into a stopped firetruck while the car was operating in its semi-autonomous Autopilot mode has sued the automaker, alleging that Tesla salespeople told her the car would stop on its own in Autopilot if an obstacle appeared in its path. The driver,...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's Why New York City's First Protected Bike Lane Was Such a Big Deal

Back in 2007, New York City decided to remedy one of its many transportation and infrastructure issues and set out to make cycling in the city feel safer, and they did by introducing what’s called a protected bike lane. A protected bike lane is just what it sounds like—it’s a...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's How Volvo's 'Special Safety Blanket' Would Work

Yesterday (or two days ago, or two lifetimes ago, it’s hard for me to tell since I’m in Europe and still jet-lagged) Volvo introduced an autonomous, electric concept car called the that included “a special safety blanket” for when you were horizontal and sleeping. Come again? The blanket is an...

Sep 12, 2025

The Mercedes-Benz Vision Urbanetic Is a One-Size-Fits-All-Use Autonomous Box of the Future

If a self-driving revolution pans out, is going to be woven into the fabric of all sorts of transportation needs—personal driving, cargo shipments, long-haul trucking. On Monday, Daimler pitched a concept that aims to encompass multiple uses called the Vision URBANETIC, which it says can be fitted with different modules...

Sep 12, 2025

I Volunteer to Be the New Elon Musk, Here Is My Plan

Hello readers. You may have heard that EV entrepreneur, disrupteur sauvage and tweet connoisseur Elon Musk is having a “,” currently. Which is bad for electric vehicles and the optimistic pursuit of capital in the face of our impending doom, only one of which I really care about. The good...

Sep 12, 2025

What’s McLaren Planning to Do With This New Electric Powertrain?

McLaren’s Formula One cars have been fairly terrible as of late, but its high-end road cars are unimpeachable. They’re big, beefy, twin-turbo V8 carbon-eaters, although McLaren admits . So an announcement from the company today could be a big step in that direction. McLaren Applied Technologies have today, apropos not...

Sep 12, 2025

GM's Plan to Test Autonomous Cars in New York City Seems to Have Gone up in Smoke

Just short of a year ago, General Motors by announcing it planned to start testing autonomous cars on the busy streets of Manhattan in But the automaker’s pilot has yet to launch, and no one is willing to publicly offer a detailed explanation for the delay. What happened? Did it...

Sep 12, 2025

Cars Are the Future

Self-driving autonomous concepts are all the rage these days, with Volvo its 360c concept last week and Mercedes yesterday, while GM came out with their own version earlier this year. Laugh now, but this is going to be the solution to transportation problems for decades to come, regardless of whether...

Sep 12, 2025

Lexus Beat Audi by Bringing Wing Mirror Cameras to Market First

The will keep that , but otherwise it’s shaping up to look like an alright car. And Lexus claims that it has the world’s first, production-ready Digital Outer Mirrors. But only in Japan. Blame America’s outdated regulations for this one. Now, this isn’t a totally new idea. Audi has explored...

Sep 12, 2025

Volvo's Concept Safety Car From 1972 Truly Had the Best-Looking Backup Camera Ever Made

After inventing the first production three-point seatbelt in 1959, Volvo’s focus on safety only intensified, especially since just having the seatbelt there was no guarantee that anyone would use it. The company also anticipated many safety features that are standard today, most fantastically this backup camera on its 1972 Volvo...

Sep 12, 2025