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Impact & Regulations, Vehicles

GM calls for national EV program

October 29, 2018

Via: Politico

General 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 […]


Vehicles

Honda’s Helping GM on Its Quest to Deliver Self-Driving Cars

October 4, 2018

Via: Wired

Cruise, 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 […]


Vehicles

This week in the future of cars: there is gold in them Thar Data

February 23, 2018

Via: Wired

ONCE 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 […]


Vehicles

This week in the future of cars: everything happens at once

January 12, 2018

Via: Wired

ONCE 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 […]


Vehicles

After peak hype, self-driving cars enter the trough of disillusionment

December 29, 2017

Via: Wired

OH, 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

This week in the future of cars: let’s get this driverless thing moving

October 13, 2017

Via: Wired

THE 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 […]


Vehicles

GM Buys Lidar Startup Strobe to Help It Deliver Self-Driving Cars

October 9, 2017

Via: Wired

GENERAL 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 […]


Vehicles

Chevy’s Making a Hydrogen-Powered Pickup for the US Army

October 4, 2016

Via: Wired

WHEN 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 […]


Impact & Regulations

The Startup That Could Help GM Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car

August 11, 2016

Via: Wired

KYLE 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, […]