Lincoln and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are bringing a new orchestral experience inside the all-new Lincoln Aviator by creating symphonic chimes to replace traditional alerts. The unique chimes recorded by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will provide musical alerts for drivers of the all-new Lincoln Aviator. The new chimes, selected from literally hundreds of musical combinations, […]
Ford and Chinese internet services giant Baidu have joined forces to develop self-driving technology. The two firms announced recently that they will jointly test Level 4 self-driving cars in Beijing, initially in a program of two years duration starting in late 2018. A Level 4 self-driving car can operate without a driver in select conditions. […]
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Tuesday (Oct. 30) issued Waymo the state’s first permit to test self-driving cars on public roads without a human in the driver’s seat. Alphabet’s autonomous-driving subsidiary has had permission to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers since 2014, but it can now dispense with humans to test three dozen test vehicles in […]
General Motors is offering buyouts to salaried workers to help cut costs, WSJ reported Wednesday. About 18,000 employees are eligible. The company said it is making the move now to take advantage of the strong economy and its own healthy performance. The largest U.S. automaker reported better-than-expected earnings Wednesday, fueled by strong sales of trucks and crossovers […]
As part of the restaurant’s latest partnership with Toyota Motor Corp., Pizza Hut has unveiled a robot-operated mobile pizza factory in the bed of a modified Toyota Tundra. The automated pizza maker takes six to seven minutes to cook a pizza. After an order is placed, the first robotic arm opens the refrigerator, removes the […]
BMW is recalling about 1.6 million diesel cars worldwide to fix a potential fire hazard in their engines, expanding repairs from just under half a million vehicles in Europe and Asia. The voluntary service action follows a BMW investigation that found coolant could leak from the car’s exhaust recirculation unit. The defect can lead to […]
Taxi firm Addison Lee is betting its customers will be ready to, in London at least, in just three years’ time. It has joined forces with self-driving software specialist Oxbotica, and says the tie-up means it will offer self-driving taxis in the capital by 2021. The move will pit it against rival ride-hailing app Uber, […]
Tesla has launched a cheaper version of its Model 3 sedan that starts at $46,200 in what the electric automaker is calling its Mid Range battery. While the true entry-level Model 3 has yet to arrive—that’s the car former CEO Elon Musk has promised would cost $35,000 and deliver 220 miles of range—this mid-spec, rear-wheel-drive […]
Daimler could be the first carmaker to offer a combustion engine car with a 62-mile electric range, when it launches the Mercedes-Benz GLE plug-in hybrid vehicle in the second half of next year. As part of a strategy to meet increasingly stringent fleet emission targets, Daimler is introducing partial electrification in every single car it […]
The next Mercedes-Benz S class will offer the brand’s first self-driving system capable of eyes-off conditional autonomy. The technology will be introduced in the brand’s flagship model before eventually trickling down into lower segment vehicles, Ola Kaellenius, Daimler’s head of research, told reporters at the Paris auto show last week. Kaellenius will succeed Dieter Zetsche […]
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