Google Car CEO Predicts Increased Need for Dealerships in All-Autonomous Future
Surprisingly, in a world filled with autonomous cars, the CEO of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project has suggested that dealerships could become way more important than they are right now. At the J.D. Power and NADA Automotive Forum ahead of the New York Auto Show, CEO John Krafcik discussed the implications of a fully-autonomous future, and […]
The Google Pixel 4 is Able to Detect Car Crashes
The Pixel’s new Personal Safety app can detect if you’ve been involved in a car crash and call 911 if necessary.
Here’s How Google is Using Video Games to Teach Self-Driving Cars
Much like biological brains, artificially intelligent neural networks need training to learn their tasks. Google’s AI projects, DeepMind and Waymo, are no exception — and the tech giant has come up with an innovative way to teach its neural networks how to drive. So, what’s an easy, accessible, and intuitive way to teach these machines? […]
6 Google Doodles Involving Cars & Drivers
A couple days during each week week, you’ll notice that Google.com’s standard multi-colored word-based logo has been replaced by an artistic, sometimes-kinetic scene redesigning the company’s letters. These Google Doodles pay homage to historic figures, inventions, and milestones and direct people to learn more about the special achievement by clicking on the illustration. Some of […]
Third-Party Navigation Apps Like Google Maps and Waze Are Coming to Apple CarPlay
If you own an iPhone, Apple CarPlay is an incredibly convenient interface that lets you use your car’s infotainment display to access many of your phone’s functions — primarily music, voice-activated calling and texting, and navigation. Now, Apple has announced that it plans to make CarPlay even more useful by supporting third-party navigation apps. Apple […]
Volvo Cars Continues Partnership with Google to Upgrade Infotainment System
Google and Volvo Cars are working together to outfit the automaker’s next-generation Sensus infotainment system with modern technology to facilitate greater engagement between Volvo drivers and their premium vehicles. Check Out: The all new Volvo XC40 The next-gen Sensus infotainment system, which is built on Google’s Android operating system, is set to feature Google Play […]
Google Street View Cars Contributing to Cleaner Air
As drivers, summertime is often key time for us to notice air pollution—mainly in the form of gray smog slathering the horizon on our morning commute. Higher summer temperatures are linked to increased ozone production and stagnant air masses. Air quality alerts flash on electronic road signs as well as reminders to “refuel after 8pm,” for […]
Google Street View Cars to Help Spot Natural Gas Leaks
Google has brought us many things like email, maps, and more recently, self-driving cars. However, now Google appears to be offering another new service: natural gas leak detection. Gas leaks have provided a particular problem, in that large leaks can be fairly easily detected and measured, but smaller leaks are much harder to find. Often […]
Google’s Waymo Sues Uber Over Self-Driving Car Tech
Self-driving cars are swiftly becoming the hot new thing of the automotive world, with Waymo (formerly Google’s self-driving car project) modifying a fleet of Chrysler Pacifica minivans to replace the previous koala cars, Chevrolet building self-driving Bolts with the help of Cruise Automation and Lyft, and even Uber beginning its own self-driving car programs like […]
Toyota is the Most Googled Car Brand in the World
Toyota is locked in a titanic battle with Volkswagen for the title of “world’s best-selling brand” (secured by a narrow margin by the latter for the first time in 2016), but when it comes to the most Googled car brand in the world, the battle wasn’t even close. Of the 193 countries analyzed by Quickco, […]
Google’s Self-Driving Car Division Sets Off, Shows Off Autonomous Pacifica
Last week, Google’s self-driving car division split off from the main company, renaming itself Waymo as a company under the Alphabet corporate umbrella. This week, the company wasted no time in showing off its first vehicle to be retrofitted for autonomous operation: the Chrysler Pacifica minivan. Award-Winner: Just look at the expert accolades being heaped […]
Russia’s Google Totally Building An Autonomous Car Too
Love it or hate it, you have to admit that Google is a pretty smart company. The small search engine has grown to be the top search platform, and has launched services for everything from maps, to email, to document storage, to health apps. Google’s Russian rival, Yandex, is pretty jealous and is perpetually trying […]
Check Out This Map of the World’s Most Googled Car Brands
Toyota and Volkswagen have been battling for the top spot among best-selling automakers for years, but when it comes to their popularity on the Internet, there is only one clear winner. The guys over at Top Speed put together a list of the most-searched car brands in the world, organized by country (and by state […]
Fiat Chrysler, Google Join Together to Expand Google Self-Driving Car Program
Earlier this month, we reported on some pretty awesome industry rumors that hinted at a partnership between Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles involving the tech giant’s self-driving technology—and it looks like those rumors are now fact. Quickly after the rumors broke that Google was planning on using the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica for its newly expanded […]
Google Patents People Catcher Glue to Stick Collision Victims to the Car to Prevent More Injury
Let’s begin with an action film scenario: our debonair hero is running from something. Maybe the hero knows that there is an explosion about to happen, or maybe he’s running before a rampaging herd of some animal that has decided that straight lines are the only lines. Suddenly, our hero spies a complication: an innocent […]
Sneaky Cops Disguise Surveillance Vehicle as Google Street View Car
The next time you find yourself in Philadelphia, you might want to look twice if you see a Google Street View car. A law enforcement vehicle masquerading as a Google Maps car was recently discovered hiding in the shadows of the Philadelphia Convention Center. To some passersby, it might look like a normal car. But […]
Ever Wonder Why Google Doesn’t Want Steering Wheels in Its Self-Driving Cars?
Google has been designing and testing its self-driving “Koala” car for quite a while now, recently spreading its testing activities to rainy Washington (as opposed to sunny California). In addition, Google recently won a big victory in federal regulations when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agreed that the “driver” in Google’s proposed car would […]
Google Goes on Hiring Spree for Driverless Car Division
Are you bored with your job? Want one that is likely going to be a great time? Well, look no further than Google. The tech giant is currently going on a hiring spree for its driverless car testing sites. While Google is known as being rather selective in its hiring, the company currently has no […]