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 […]
Singapore’s sidewalks are about to get a lot more crowded. Beam, co-founded by the former Asian chief for Chinese bike-sharing giant Ofo Inc., has raised $6.4 million from investors including Sequoia India to deploy its electric scooters around the island nation. Beam just closed a seed funding round led by Sequoia India, Founders Fund, ZhenFund […]
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 […]
Google has shared that people can now search for and locate electric vehicle charging stations in Google Maps. In addition to displaying the closest stations, Maps will provide information about the business where the charger is located, the types of ports that are available, how many ports there are, and charging speeds. Google says it offers […]
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 […]
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