Are Privately Owned Cars Set to Vanish?
When Waymo began offering to let Phoenix-area families try out its vehicle service last month it touched off what a new study is calling “a historic revolution in transportation.” RethinkX is...
View ArticleU.S. House to Vote on Broad Autonomous Vehicle Bill
Federal lawmakers may take a big step closer to enabling widespread testing of autonomous and fully driverless vehicles when the U.S. House votes next week on a bill that would greatly expand the auto...
View ArticleFord Moving EV Production From Michigan to Mexico
Ford will shift electric vehicle production from a suburban Detroit plant to a factory in Mexico. That move will make room at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant for Ford to launch a new line of driverless...
View ArticleGM Asks Feds to OK 2019 Launch of Driverless Robo-Cabs
GM is asking federal regulators for permission to begin testing driverless robo-cabs on public roads, starting in 2019. It hopes to roll out as many as 2,500 of the modified Chevrolet Bolt EVs...
View ArticleWaymo Buying “Thousands” of Chrysler Minivans for New Driverless Ride-Hailing...
Google spin-off Waymo will convert "thousands" of Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans to operate without a driver and put them to work in a new ride-hailing service it will operate in "multiple US...
View ArticleToaster-Shaped Nuro R1 Could Soon Pop Up as Driverless Delivery Van
It looks like a four-wheeled toaster, but when the driverless Nuro R1 starts popping up later this year it will be bringing packages from online and local retail shops, according to the company’s...
View ArticleMercedes, Bosch Team to Launch Self-Driving Car Service
Mercedes-Benz is teaming up with German mega-supplier Bosch to launch a new ride-sharing service in Silicon Valley next year that will rely on self-driving vehicles. The story from TheDetroitBureau.com.
View ArticleApple Cuts Over 200 Jobs at Autonomous Vehicle Project
Apple has cut at least 200 jobs at Project Titan, its autonomous vehicle project, sources told TheDetroitBureau.com, a report now confirmed by CNBC. The move raises questions about its future plans for...
View ArticleIt Will Be a Decade Before Self-Driving and Electric Vehicles Become Major...
Automakers will invest $100s of millions on autonomous and electric vehicles in the coming years, but a new JD Power study warns it will be a decade or more before those technologies become major...
View ArticleFormer Uber Autonomous Chief Levandowski Cops Plea in Tech Theft Case
Anthony Levandowski,an autonomous driving pioneer, could spend up to 30 months in prison after agreeing to plead guilty on federal charges arising out of the theft of intellectual property from Google....
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