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Finnish robot car aims for 24/7 driving - also sees through fog
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
This is enabled by the LiDAR mounted on the car's roof, which can see wavelengths that are beyond the human senses. As the technology evolves, this represents a...
Tesla reorganizing to speed up production
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
"To ensure that Tesla is well prepared for the future, we have been undertaking a thorough reorganization of our company," the memo obtained by AFP said. "As pa...
Tesla sets up Shanghai firm as it expands China presence
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
The US firm's Hong Kong subsidiary established Tesla (Shanghai) Limited on May 10 with a registration capital of 100 million yuan ($15.8 million), filings on th...
VW 'contests' report boss knew of diesel cheating risk
May 13, 2018 (AFP)
Oliver Schmidt, a former VW manager jailed in the US over dieselgate, told the FBI he had briefed Diess and other executives about the cheating and the potentia...
China's Didi suspends car-pool service after passenger murder
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
The 21-year-old woman, identified by police only by her surname Li, was killed the night of May 6, according to police in the central city of Zhengzhou, with st...
US investigating battery fire in fatal Tesla crash
May 10, 2018 (AFP)
The 2014 Tesla was reportedly traveling at high speed when it hit a wall then caught fire on Tuesday, the NTSB said in a release. Autopilot self-driving capabil...
Self-driving cars for country roads
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
Indeed, if you live along the millions of miles of U.S. roads that are unpaved, unlit or unreliably marked, you're out of luck. Such streets are often much more...
Will automated vehicles take the stress out of driving? Research says 'don't count on it'
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
In their newly published Human Factors article, "Driver Vigilance in Automated Vehicles: Hazard Detection Failures Are a Matter of Time," Eric Greenlee, Patrici...
California lawmakers press for fuel economy standards
May 10, 2018 (UPI)
The federal Environmental Protection Agency said former President Barack Obama made a mistake when he called for an increase for all domestic vehicles to an ave...
Audi halts A6 production over 'new emissions cheating'
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
Confirming a report in news weekly Der Spiegel, Germany's transport ministry told AFP it was investigating the use of a new "illegal defeat device" in some 60,0...
In latest diesel woes, Audi flags new emissions 'irregularities'
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
Audi's admission came after Germany's transport ministry said the KBA vehicle licensing authority was investigating suspicions the carmaker had installed a new ...
Uber shows off its vision for future 'flying taxi'
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
A model of Uber's electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle concept (eVTOL) -- a cross between a helicopter and a drone -- was displayed at the second annu...
US environmental groups slam Ford over clean fuel stance
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
With the battle over fuel-economy rules growing more intense, Madeline Page of Public Citizen, which helped organize the on-line petition, said the Ford was sin...
Should ethics or human intuition drive the moral judgments of driverless cars?
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
"The technological advancement and adoption of autonomous vehicles is moving quickly but the social and ethical discussions about their behavior is lagging behi...
Former Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn indicted in US over 'Dieselgate'
May 03, 2018 (AFP)
Winterkorn's indictment brings the US criminal case to the uppermost levels of Volkswagen, which pleaded guilty last year to lying to American environmental reg...
Tesla reports narrower than expected losses, shares swerve
May 03, 2018 (AFP)
Shares in the automaker rose briefly, then dove about five percent to $286.15 after an earnings call during which chief executive Elon Musk dismissed as "boring...
Pedal power: the rise of cargo bikes in Germany
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
A desire to go green has been key to the rise of cargo bikes in a country where dozens of smog-choked cities are considering diesel driving bans to combat air p...
Environmental impact of electric vehicles in China? It depends on how they are charged
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
Now, researchers from Harvard University and Tsinghua University in Beijing found that private electric vehicles in China can have a positive effect on CO2 redu...
California leads coalition against new car emissions standards
May 01, 2018 (AFP)
The suit, which was led by California, seeks to protect standards passed under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama that would raise fuel efficiency to about 50 mil...
Can fish school cars in how to drive together?
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
"One thinks about autonomous cars in isolation. But what is also important is the information which is being shared between cars," Trevor Worthington, Shanghai-...
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