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Industry calls for fast lane for self-driving cars

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

Google, Lyft and auto industry executives urged lawmakers Tuesday to help create a regulatory fast lane to help the deployment of self-driving cars. In testimon...

GM, Lyft launch car rental program for drivers

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

General Motors and Lyft on Tuesday unveiled a joint car rental service for drivers, a move aimed at boosting the number of vehicles available for the ridesharin...

Investors sue VW in Germany for more than 3 bn euros

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

A group of 278 institutional investors from Germany and abroad is suing embattled auto giant Volkswagen for more than 3.0 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in damage...

China minister warns on subsidies as Uber, Didi battle

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

China's transport minister warned online taxi-hailing companies Monday over subsidies leading to "unfair" competition, as US giant Uber and homegrown rival Didi...

GM buys self-driving technology startup Cruise

Mar 11, 2016 (AFP)

General Motors said Friday it is buying automated driving technology startup Cruise Automation to boost its efforts to develop self-driving cars. Cruise, founde...

China car sales edge down in Feb: industry group

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

Auto sales in China, the world's largest car market, decreased marginally in February from a year ago, data from an industry group showed Thursday, in a gloomy ...

In crowded Cairo, ride-hailing apps leave cabbies fuming

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

For 32-year-old banker Hani, it was always a nightmare riding in Cairo's battered taxis through traffic gridlock and thick exhaust fumes that sputter out of ric...

Sweden's Volvo wants standard plugs for electric cars

Mar 09, 2016 (AFP)

In a bid to grow its market for zero-emission vehicles, Swedish carmaker Volvo has joined a German initiative to standardise plugs for electric cars, the compan...

China's Geely mulls making, selling cars in Europe

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

Chinese carmaker Geely is considering making and selling cars in Western Europe, a Swedish business daily quoted the company's director as saying on Tuesday. "E...

German, French prosecutors widen net in VW emissions probe

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

The net widened Tuesday in the investigation into the massive emissions-cheating scandal at auto giant Volkswagen, with German prosecutors adding more suspects ...

VW says wrongfooted by US going public on emissions

Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)

Embattled German automaker Volkswagen believed it could clear up emissions-cheating allegations with US authorities amicably and was caught offguard by them goi...

Electric supercar wins young Croatian global fame

Mar 06, 2016 (AFP)

He's the name behind the world's first electric supercar, winning international plaudits for his ingenuity. But for Croatia's 28-year-old Mate Rimac, it all sta...

Scandal-hit VW gives new dates for 2015 results, shareholders' meet

Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)

Beleaguered German auto giant Volkswagen Friday announced new dates for its 2015 annual results and shareholder meeting after postponing them over the a massive...

Who and what is driving and when

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

For all the media attention they've been getting lately, self-driving cars come with many unknowns and potential obstacles to safe driving. A critical issue is ...

Volkswagen says CEO got diesel snag warning as early as May 2014

Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)

Volkswagen's former chief executive may have been warned as early as May 2014 of possible anomalies dogging its diesel engines, 16 months before the scandal eru...

Peugeot Citroen reveals 'real-world' fuel consumption

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

Leading French automobile manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroen published Tuesday "real-world" fuel consumption figures for three of its diesel cars, seeking to win ...

Google takes some blame in self-driving car bang-up

Feb 29, 2016 (AFP)

Google on Monday said that its self-driving car bore some of the blame in a recent fender-bender after making the kind of assumption a human might have made. A ...

US questions Mercedes-Benz on diesel car emissions

Feb 29, 2016 (AFP)

US environmental regulators have asked Mercedes-Benz for emissions data after a private lawsuit accused the German carmaker of installing emissions-cheating tec...

US judge gives VW a month to present diesel fix plan

Feb 26, 2016 (AFP)

A US judge has given Volkswagen one month to present a plan to fix diesel engine cars secretly outfitted with pollution cheat devices. District Judge Charles Br...

Some distractions while driving are more risky than others

Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)

Drivers more than double their crash risk for more than half of their trips when they choose to engage in distracting activities, according to Virginia Tech Tra...