Why General Motors shifted gears in its manufacturing strategy
The decision earlier this week by General Motors to close five plants in North America, lay off some 14,000 workers, and retire six of its...
Read MoreIs it working? How testing and good data can enable autonomous innovation
Innovation is the key to progress, but true innovation means tackling new challenges. When you’re breaking new ground, there are...
Read MoreCan driverless cars scale into industrial-strength businesses? (Part 2 Of 3)
Will driverless cars (AVs, for Autonomous Vehicles) live up to the revolutionary potential imagined by many, including me? In part one of...
Read MoreCan driverless cars gain market acceptance? (Part 3 Of 3)
Successful industrialization of driverless cars will depend on getting over many significant hurdles. Failure only requires getting...
Read More15 hurdles to the industrialization of driverless cars (Part 1 Of 3)
Will the future of driverless cars rhyme with the history of the Segway? The Segway personal transporter was also predicted to...
Read MoreDriverless cars will need cities covered in sensors, China’s Didi Chuxing says
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing wants to become one of the front-runners in developing self-driving cars, the company’s...
Read MoreThrough all the hype, self-driving cars remain elusive
The relentlessly hyped arrival of autonomous vehicles looms as the greatest disruption in personal transportation since Henry Ford’s...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles are coming and there’s no roadmap (yet)
When I was growing up, my father had a tiny grocery store in Brooklyn that served our immediate community. Around 1960, something...
Read MoreCOMMENT: Electric, connected and autonomous – Three building blocks for the future of last mile delivery
The last mile of delivery has become an increasingly complex final few metres for logistics companies. While for many years the automotive...
Read MoreAutomakers face fight to stand out in driverless era
Self-driving vehicles won’t generate much buzz on Wall Street — or much of a profit — if automakers and technology companies...
Read MoreDriven to safety — it’s time to pool our data
For most Americans, the thought of cars autonomously navigating our streets still feels like a science fiction story. Despite the billions...
Read MoreCook talks coming out, autonomous cars and more in CNN interview
Shared in a 10-minute clip posted to CNN’s YouTube channel, the interview starts with Cook and Amanpour discussing why the Apple...
Read MoreParis allows driverless car on its tricky streets
FT Paris correspondent David Keohane talks to Jacques Aschenbroich, CEO of Valeo, the world’s largest supplier of car parts, about...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars, tires, and the great national stupidity
Do you like being alive? I do. And I try to do as many things as possible to add years to my life. In quantity and quality. When I see a...
Read MoreHere’s how Ford plans to make money off self-driving cars
Ford plans to launch a production self-driving car in 2021, and that said car will be used for ride-hailing and delivery services. As the...
Read MoreVolkwagen CEO says Waymo has one-two year headstart in autonomous cars
Volkwagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, is up to two years of development work behind Alphabet Inc’s Waymo in the area of...
Read MorePerils and ethics of new driverless cars
Guardian readers respond to David Edmond’s article about the moral arguments surrounding driverless cars....
Read MoreHundreds of millions of cars off the road and autonomous trucks on the road in 10 years?
I have been covering autonomous vehicles for a few years now, and I have found only one thing to be certain: Uncertainty of a timeline....
Read MoreFord’s self-driving cars are really good, but are they good enough to win?
It was a humid, overcast day in Miami, and I needed to get from the city’s crowded downtown to the trendy, mural-splashed neighborhood of...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars expand the fight over airwaves
Hungry for more Wi-Fi capacity, the telecom industry is looking to snatch control of underutilized airwaves reserved for the auto...
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