The marketing fallout of autonomous vehicles
Auto industry analysts from Bob Lutz to the consulting firm McKinsey foresee a decline in private auto sales in the approaching autonomous...
Read MoreWhere is demand for autonomous?
TO THE EDITOR: Being in automotive sales, I spend much of my day discussing the future of the industry, not with outside experts or...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles will completely change how we shop
Since 2015, there have been at least 57 major retail bankruptcies. And after more than 5,000 store closures in 2017, we are on track to...
Read MoreThe dawn of self-driving companies
If you’ve already imagined how profoundly self-driving vehicles will change our lives, think of what self-driving companies could do. I’m...
Read MoreWhy self-driving vehicles need a crystal ball
A pedestrian stands along a street with one foot on the curb and the other in the crosswalk. A bicyclist lifts a foot off the ground and...
Read MoreHow autonomous cars will reshape our world
Nobody, not even transportation experts like me, had an inkling that ride-on-demand services like Uber would change our travel habits so...
Read MoreWhy 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...
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