Jul 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
CARS HAVE NOT been good for the environment, to put it lightly. Transportation accounts for 28 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and light-duty vehicles for more than half of those. Someday, self-driving cars will appear widely in the US....
Jul 9, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
Tesla founder Elon Musk said Thursday that the world’s recently crowned most valuable auto company could achieve a fully autonomous car by the end of 2020. Musk, who has made premature predictions about the advent of completely autonomous cars before, offered...
Jul 2, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business
Lyft’s self-driving vehicle division has restarted testing on public roads in California, several months after pausing operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyft’s Level 5 program said Tuesday some of its autonomous vehicles are back on the road in Palo...
Jun 18, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured, Government
Federal safety regulators on Monday launched an effort to get companies working on autonomous vehicle technology to share more data about the limits of their systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is creating an online source so consumers can see...
Jun 18, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured
Ford’s new hands-free-driving product will be available on its Mustang Mach-E electric car. The Dearborn, Mich., auto giant said in a news release its new Ford Co-Pilot360 Technology will open up “hands-free driving on more than 100,000 miles of divided...
May 28, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Investment
Autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Aurora today announced it has roughly doubled its workforce to 500 people (up from 250 as of May 2019) and committed to hiring workers across the company as it welcomes 22 remote interns and a trio of executives. Aurora’s hiring spree —...
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