It's all about perpetual payments
When I first started speculating on the idea of an Apple car last February as rumors about Project Titan emerged, I was enormously skeptical that it would ultimately happen. However in the days sin…
The taxi business is one that absolutely needs to be disrupted however, any way you slice it, Uber is a terrible company
Very disappointed about the +Volkswagen USA? diesel situation. However as I told +Sebastian Blanco? for this story, the issue seems to be limited to cars that use a lean NOx trap. Diesel with urea injection systems are not affected
After the EPA says VW used software to get around federal tests, we see how it looks from a green car event in California and try to understand what happened.
The first Navigant Research autonomous vehicles leaderboard report has just been published
Autonomous driving has been a long-term goal for the automotive industry for decades. Yet, only recently have self-driving vehicles started to become a realistic objective that can be achieved in p…
The All-New 10th generation 2016 +Honda? Civic was unveiled this evening
For most companies that make and sell products there is often one particular product that is most important to its image and its bottom line. For Apple, it’s the iPhone, at Ford it’s th…
Originally shared by +Phil Nickinson
I recognized this kid immediately. This was me when I was in public school. Even in sixth grade, my classroom cubby contained a lunchbox filled with batteries, wires, and random circuits. In later years, I had technical manuals and printouts filled with arcane symbols that I knew were 6502 assembler opcodes but could have been coded German Army ENIGMA signals for all my teachers knew. I might have had the components of busted floppy drives in my bookbag. During a frustrated, failure-filled period when I was trying to master photographic printmaking, my bookbag might have contained brown bottles filled with stinky chemicals.
I’m disgusted by this story, reported by the Dallas Morning News tonight. A 14-year-old high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed… Do I need to fill in the details? I’m outraged ab…
Last year Chevrolet decided to join the rapidly burgeoning B-segment (aka subcompact) crossover utility field with an entry called the Trax. The Trax joins GM’s other similarly sized and surprising…
The hiring of John Krafcik to run Google's autonomous car program suddenly makes it a lot more likely that we will someday see Google/Alphabet-branded autonomous cars on the road. At the very least, it increases the likelihood that Google will now be able to make deals with other OEMs to adopt its software. With his engineering and product planning background at +Ford Motor Company and +Hyundai Worldwide, Krafcik knows the industry and what it takes to succeed. John knows what it will take to make the deals that Google has so far failed to achieve.
Things are suddenly getting very interesting.
Google is bringing in John Krafcik, the veteran Ford and Hyundai executive, to head its self-driving car program, presenting the clearest sign yet of Google’s broad commercial aspirations for the project. Krafcik, 53, a manufacturing expert and a fan of disruptive technology, comes to Google from car-shopping service TrueCar.
When Chevrolet revealed the redesigned sixth-generation Camaro last spring, it looks like they significantly sandbagged everyone on the weight reductions including the engineers in Dearborn. The original press release indicated that “the total curb…
When Chevrolet revealed the redesigned sixth-generation Camaro last spring, it looks like they significantly sandbagged everyone on the weight reductions including the engineers in Dearborn. The or…
