Image copyright Getty Images Driverless car technology seems to be advancing at breakneck speed – but the changes this will mean for the rules of the road are proceeding at a slower pace. Now the insurance industry is calling on carmakers to provide more data showing who was at fault in accidents involving driverless vehicles. […]
George Hotz has scored $3.1m investment in his startup Comma, and thinks he can build a better self-driving car than Elon Musk George Hotz, the latest Silicon Valley startup founder to get a multimillion-dollar check from venture capitalists, went for a ride in a Rolls-Royce around San Francisco on Monday. At 26, Hotz thinks he […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc is investigating how to charge electric cars, talking to charging station companies and hiring engineers with expertise in the area, according to people familiar with the matter and a review of LinkedIn profiles. For more than a year, Silicon Valley has been buzzing about Apple’s plan to build an […]
Autonomous vehicles may be the wave of the future for travel but for the time being, people still have a role to play. That’s why Google is offering $20 per hour to people willing to play passenger to its self-driving cars.Residents of Phoenix, Az. looking for work as Uber drivers without having to pick anyone […]
Platoon of wireless-linked trucks arrives in Netherlands port city of Rotterdam, giving a glimpse of the future of road haulage Six convoys of semi-automated smart trucks arrived in Rotterdams harbour on Wednesday after an experiment its organisers say will revolutionise future road transport on Europes busy highways. More than a dozen self-driving trucks made by […]
The Tesla CEO has proclaimed that autonomous driving is a solved problem but tech and executives in recent years have tempered their expectations Depending on whom you ask, your car will be driving you in less than two years or more than 15. The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who is never shy about beating his […]
As farfetched as Sergio Marchionne’s dream of a merger with GM seemed, even stranger things may be happening in the industry: Mergers between traditional OEMs and tech companies, such as Google and Apple, could be on the wishlist of some of the major self-driving car players. But while Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is rumored to […]
Self-driving cars could cut road deaths by 80%, but without better security they put us at risk of car hacking and even ransoms, experts at SXSW say Youre about to drive to work. You turn on the ignition and a message on the dash lights up. Weve hacked your car! Pay 10 bitcoin to get […]
After a little mishap I suffered in my Jet Black 918, going off on the INSIDE of the infamous Crowthorne corner at South Africa’s Kyalami racetrack in 2019, today will be my first time back on a circuit. It’s only thanks to the amazing surgeon, Sir Timothy Noakes, who printed some pretty trick Carbon nano-tubes […]
With every new model that mobile phone manufacturers release there’s a quantum leap forward in technology. Automakers do the same, but with the development and production costs of bringing a car to market often running into the hundreds of billions of USD model life cycles tend to be much longer (Typically 7 years), but with […]
