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Programming safety into self-driving cars

Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)

For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various ...

Volvo cuts 1,000 jobs as China sales dip

Feb 05, 2015 (AFP)

Sweden's Volvo, the world's second-largest maker of trucks, reported a sharp fall in annual profits Thursday and announced 1,000 redundancies in its constructio...

Car-sharing service report prompts Google tweet

Feb 03, 2015 (AFP)

Google late Monday fired off a terse tweet that appeared aimed at putting brakes on a report that it is readying a ride-sharing service that would rival Uber. "...

One eye on China, Renault unveils first compact SUV

Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)

French carmaker Renault on Monday unveiled its first compact SUV, a "crossover" vehicle it hopes will cater to the tastes of urban drivers in Europe and China a...

Low oil price era influencing vehicle markets

Feb 02, 2015 (UPI)

Chinese and European companies are advancing green vehicle technology amid signs of modest momentum in retail sales in a low oil price era. Forecasts from IHS A...

Uber steers anti-taxi idea to become global phenomenon

Jan 29, 2015 (AFP)

Unlike many American startups, Uber was not founded in someone's garage, but was conceived instead on a cold night in Paris, when two tech entrepreneurs could n...

Reassure EV buyers with battery leasing and better charging

Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)

A proper choice of business model plays a critical role in electric vehicle industry where many consumers are subject to range and resale anxieties. In particul...

Dutch approve large-scale testing of self-driving cars

Jan 23, 2015 (AFP)

The Dutch government on Friday approved large-scale testing of self-driving cars and trucks on public roads, saying the technology could greatly reduce traffic ...

Ford goes Silicon Valley with new research center

Jan 22, 2015 (AFP)

Ford opened a new research center in Silicon Valley on Thursday, stepping up the company's efforts on connected vehicles, autonomous driving and ways to use big...

Toyota sells 10.23mn vehicles in 2014, still world's top automaker

Jan 21, 2015 (AFP)

Toyota kept its title as the world's biggest automaker on Wednesday as it announced record sales of 10.23 million vehicles last year, outpacing General Motors a...

Congestion expected after Toyota green car orders soar

Jan 15, 2015 (AFP)

Toyota has been swamped by orders for its first mass market hydrogen fuel-cell car, the company said Thursday, with demand in the first month nearly four times ...

China taxi booking app raises $600 mn for expansion

Jan 15, 2015 (AFP)

The operator of one of China's leading taxi booking apps, Kuaidi Dache, has raised $600 million for expansion, a statement said Thursday, even as the government...

Peugeot sales power ahead; China now biggest market

Jan 14, 2015 (AFP)

Peugeot Citroen on Wednesday reported a turnaround in sales in 2014 after three years of decline, spurred by runaway growth in China, now the carmaker's leading...

From Rovers to Self-Driving Cars

Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)

NASA's Ames Research Center and Nissan North America have signed a Reimbursable Umbrella Space Act Agreement and the first annex to that agreement. The umbrella...

China 2014 auto sales beat 23 mn, but growth slows

Jan 12, 2015 (AFP)

China's auto sales exceeded 23 million vehicles last year, an industry group said Monday, but annual growth halved from 2013 as a weaker economy took its toll o...

Emissions-free cars get closer

Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)

A University of Delaware research team is considering the important question of what it will take to create an affordable emissions-free car. The question, an i...

New transport options aim to be 'un-Segway'

Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)

A host of newfangled wheeled devices unveiled this week offer innovative solutions to urban transport which could fulfill the failed ambitions of the Segway. At...

Do sports cars have a future in a driverless world?

Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)

Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Bugatti. The prestigious names embody performance and luxury across the automotive world. But with the advent of soulless self-d...

Has car manufacturer taken the corner too fast with the boxfish design?

Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)

Billions of years of evolution have provided solutions for countless technical problems, while teaching designers and engineers a thing or two along the way. Bu...

Toyota announces release of hundreds of fuel cell patents

Jan 07, 2015 (UPI)

Toyota wants to build a hydrogen society. But first, they want the Toyota Mirai -- the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle to be released commercially -- to be a h...