Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
October 29, 2018
Via: PoliticoGeneral Motors said Friday that it wants the Trump administration to create a National Zero Emission Vehicle program, modeled on California’s efforts. GM, the country’s biggest automaker, said a requirement that a certain percentage of cars sold to be zero-emissions […]
October 4, 2018
Via: WiredCruise, the self-driving car arm of General Motors, has an unexpected new ally in its bid to keep its corporate master at the forefront of an industry enduring its greatest period of change in generations: Honda. In a deal announced […]
February 23, 2018
Via: WiredONCE UPON A time, car companies were in charge of, you know, building cars. They put that widget against that gizmo and bolted and screwed until the whole thing hanged together—a thing you could buy and own and drive. No […]
January 12, 2018
Via: WiredONCE UPON A time, the Consumer Electronics Show was about personal gadgets: fancy phones, curving televisions, college-educated refrigerators. But in recent years cars have become the stars, and the auto industry has taken its place in Vegas. This week at […]
December 29, 2017
Via: WiredOH, THE UNTAINTED optimism of 2014. In the spring of that year, the good Swedes at Volvo introduced Drive Me, a program to get regular Josefs, Frejas, Joeys, and Fayes into autonomous vehicles. By 2017, Volvo executives promised, the company […]
Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
October 13, 2017
Via: WiredTHE MOMENTUM BUILDS. This week we saw a bunch of schemes to get self-driving cars on the road. The state of California released the latest draft of its regulations to make it easier for driverless cars to be on public […]
October 9, 2017
Via: WiredGENERAL MOTORS JUST took another step to prepare itself for the future of driving, acquiring a startup that makes what could prove a key technology to unlock self-driving cars for use in fleets. Cruise, GM’s self-driving car startup, will now […]
October 4, 2016
Via: WiredWHEN IT COMES to pickups, the standard attitude is, go big or go home. Huge knobbly tires, bullbars, spotlights, winches—even if they’re unnecessary. Look at Ford’s F-150 Raptor (not just leaner, meaner!), Toyota’s Tacoma TRD Pro (not afraid to show […]
August 11, 2016
Via: WiredKYLE VOGT COULDN’T do anything to help his dustpan-shaped battlebot Decimator as it took a saw blade to the belly. The CO2 tank powering its primary weapon ruptured, sending his droid skittering into the spikes lining the arena. Moments later, the bot’s nemesis, Tazbot, […]