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How we might recharge an electric car as it drives
May 07, 2020 (SPX)
Although wireless charging pads already exist for smartphones, they only work if the phone is sitting still. For cars, that would be just as inconvenient as the...
Uber cuts 3,700 jobs amid pandemic slump
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
The cuts amount to around 14 percent of Uber's global workforce, which does not include its contract drivers. The company made the announcement in a regulatory ...
California sues Uber and Lyft for calling drivers 'contractors'
May 05, 2020 (AFP)
The suit, joined by the state's large municipalities, seeks to require the companies to compensate drivers and pay penalties that could total in the hundreds of...
Internet of Things meets automated driving
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
The project focused on the development, testing and assessment of new driving modes and transportation services as well as the IT architectures and platforms re...
Volkswagen dealt EU court setback over diesel pollution
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
The technology "does not appear to be necessary to protect the engine against damage or accident and to ensure safe operation of the vehicle," said Advocate Gen...
Tesla's Musk calls confinement 'outrage,' urges reopening
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
The billionaire entrepreneur, speaking on an earnings update for the electric carmaker, lashed out at the orders which forced the shutdown of production in Cali...
Lyft slashes workforce in face of major hit from pandemic
Apr 29, 2020 (AFP)
The San Francisco group said it would reduce its payrolls by 17 percent -- about 982 people -- and furlough another 288 workers. The job cuts are part of a rest...
Linking self-driving cars to traffic signals might help pedestrians give them the green light
Apr 22, 2020 (The Conversation)
In a recent study by my team at the University of Michigan, we focused on communication via a vehicle's driving behavior to study how people might react to self...
Could shrinking a key component help make autonomous cars affordable?
Apr 17, 2020 (SPX)
Today's lidars use complex mechanical parts to send the flashlight-sized infrared lasers spinning around like the old-fashioned, bubblegum lights atop police ca...
Renault shifts to all-electric cars for China
Apr 14, 2020 (AFP)
The strategy shift comes after years of sluggish sales in China, where Renault hoped its 50-50 venture with Dongfeng, announced in 2013 and focused on a factory...
System trains driverless cars in simulation before they hit the road
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
Control systems, or "controllers," for autonomous vehicles largely rely on real-world datasets of driving trajectories from human drivers. From these data, they...
VW loses 'damning' dieselgate class lawsuit in UK
Apr 06, 2020 (AFP)
Following adverse rulings and compensation payouts elsewhere, the High Court in London ruled that the German auto giant was liable in Britain, too. The ruling a...
Renault says China, South Korea plants restarting after virus shutdown
Mar 30, 2020 (AFP)
"All of the group's factories are currently shut down, except for the factories in China and South Korea, which have resumed operations or are in the process of...
Electric cars better for climate in 95 percent of the world
Mar 25, 2020 (SPX)
Media reports have regularly questioned whether electric cars are really "greener" once emissions from production and generating their electricity are taken int...
Joint Japanese-German research project investigates networked and automated driving
Mar 25, 2020 (SPX)
To master complicated traffic situations, communication between humans and machines must be quick and reliable. Human interaction with automated vehicles, via h...
Volvo Cars halts Europe, US production
Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)
"Our primary concerns are the health of our employees and the future of our business," CEO Hakan Samuelsson said in a statement. The company said there was now ...
Uber shares surge after citing signs of rebound from virus slump
Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)
In midday trade, Uber shares were up nearly 40 percent as it joined a broad rebound in the battered stock market. Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told an...
Driver's-ed-inspired system could make automated parallel parking more accessible
Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)
Now researchers have developed a more efficient automated parking guidance control strategy that mimics the approach to parallel parking commonly used by human ...
Self-driving car trajectory tracking gets closer to human-driver ideal
Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)
For society to truly embrace self-driving cars, the experience of passengers must feel just as comfortable as any trip with a human driver - including choosing ...
GM unveils long-range battery in fresh electric car push
Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)
GM said its Ultium batteries would have a range of up to 400 miles (645 kilometers) between charges, designed for fast charging and adaptable for a variety of v...
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