I'm back on episode 1513 of Tech News Today with +

I'm back on episode 1513 of Tech News Today with +Jason Howell and +Megan Morrone to talk about self-crashing Teslas, why Apple is investing in a Chinese ride-hailing company and job openings to test-ride in Google's self-driving cars

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk all about Apple’s renewed ambitions in the classroom. Twitter’s Vine is losing creators rapidly to other services like Facebook. Microsoft tease…


Tesla Auto Pilot is probably the most advanced driver assist system I've tried yet

Tesla Auto Pilot is probably the most advanced driver assist system I've tried yet. In the scenarios where it works, it works really well. Do not however confuse this for an autonomous vehicle, at least not in its current form

Putting Tesla Auto Pilot To The Test – A Step Toward Autonomy But Not A Self-Driver
2016 Tesla Model S 70D with Auto Pilot (photo credit: Sam Abuelsamid) Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk rarely fails to garner headlines when he speaks out. Prior to the recent reveal of the Model 3, one of the biggest stories in Tesla’s recent history was the launch of Auto Pilot, the […]


2015 BMW i8 – A Plug-in Hybrid Spaceship From Munich

2015 BMW i8

A good rule of thumb when attending an auto show is that the more radical looking a concept car is, the less likely it is to ever make it to production. Virtually every major brand is guilty of producing pieces of rolling sculpture that end up doing little more than introducing a couple of new design cues that end up on more mainstream models. When we first saw BMW’s Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, it seemed to fall squarely into this category. Nevertheless, five years later something very much like that concept emerged as the first-ever i8.

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