Sharpen Your Driving Skills with These Tips
We know it’s always the other guy. The one who’s driving too slow, too fast, too aggressively, too mindlessly…the one who can’t park between the lines, parks too close to…
Next-Gen Holden Commodore to Be Produced in Germany
The 2018 Commodore will be the first version not built in Australia With production of the Commodore VF quickly coming to a close, Holden has decided to uplift the spirits…
Luminar's Cheaper Sensors Could Accelerate AV Production
The first heavily automated mass-market vehicles for consumers could go on sale as soon as 2022, if one or more vehicle manufacturers adopt a new sub-$500 lidar sensing package being…
Latest Autotrader Commercial Leaves Us Giggling
Photo: Pixabay Last month, I wished for more Autotrader commercials from Drunk History‘s Derek Waters, and the company delivered. This month’s release focuses on 18th century France and is somehow…
Autotrader Gets Sense of Humor with ‘Drunk History’ Director
Photo: Pixabay As you’re watching the fall premieres of your favorite TV shows, you might be noticing a new commercial from Autotrader that’s, well, funny. That’s not because buying cars…
New Bio-Inspired Camera Takes a Cue from the Mantis Shrimp
“We are beginning to reach the limit of what traditional imaging sensors can accomplish. Our new bioinspired camera shows that nature has a lot of interesting solutions that we can…
Walmart Partners With Waymo for Self-Driving Grocery Pickup Pilot
Photo: Mike Mozart Self-driving cars have been a hot topic in the news lately. As the autonomous world continues to grow, there are mixed feelings about it from consumers and…
Self-Driving Ethics Part Two: Regional Differences
Photo: Nature We reported before this on the Moral Machine, an international experiment that sought to answer one of the big ethical questions facing self-driving vehicles: “If the car has…
Driverless Dilemmas: Jaywalking and Other Unpredictable Human Behaviors
Photo: Eric Fischer Recently, we dialogued about some of the current obstacles driverless cars have to overcome. Per the New York Times, jaywalking — and other unpredictable behavior from humans —…
GM's Mary Barra Engages with Potential New Hires at Harvard
©GM GM has been on a hiring spree. The company has hired 9,000 new employees since 2016, and 40 percent of its current staff are new personnel. CEO Marry Barra’s…
DOT Delivers New Self-Driving Car Testing Guidelines
When it comes to self-driving cars, the federal government takes a largely hands-off approach. One thing it has done, though, is release two sets of voluntary guidelines over the past…
5 Areas of Study That Open the Door to the Automotive Industry
Rapid advancement in technology continues to trigger changes in many different sectors. A case in point is the automotive industry that has got a facelift in ways that were unfathomable…
Mary Barra Wins the CEO Pay Race
Mary Barra is a lot of things in the automotive industry, from the first female CEO to one of its most vocal advocates for STEM education. In 2016, she was…
Turns Out Fuel Efficiency Rules Made Jobs Too
Photo: Wally Gobetz A lot of automakers have complained that the government’s increasingly strict fuel-efficiency and emissions regulations would kill jobs—most pointed of all was now former Ford CEO Mark…
Queensland, Australia, Joins the Electric Revolution with World’s Longest Electric Highway
Photo: byronv2 One of the largest accepted barriers to widespread acceptance of electric vehicles is undoubtedly infrastructure—it is simply a difficult matter to go any particular distance in an electric…
