Originally published on CleanTechnica. A Utah man’s parked Tesla Model S recently went “rogue” and somehow crashed itself into the back of a parked truck, according to reports. The owner of the Model S involved has claimed that, after parking the car, standing outside for a 30-second or minute-long conversation, and then heading into a store […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Carlos Ghosn was once aiming to make the Renault-Nissan Alliance the world’s electric vehicle leader. To some extent (if you look at sales of electric cars to date), it currently is, but there’s obviously a looming vehicle and sales production target that looks set to blow the Alliance out of the […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Like in some previous quarters, I went ahead and put the full recording of the Q1 2016 Tesla financials conference call on YouTube. You can always listen to the conference calls on the Tesla investment portal, but it’s a clunky system and really hard to skip around to the spot you want. […]
Google and Chrysler have entered into an agreement that will see engineers from both companies cooperate on the development of autonomous driving technologies at a joint-run facility in southern Michigan, according to recent reports. The new agreement is being accompanied by Google’s decision to purchase 100 brand-new Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid (PHEV) minivans for use […]
While it’s now widely realized that Google has been putting substantial amounts of its money into the development of autonomous driving technology over the last few years, it’s probably far less widely known that the Chinese equivalent of Google — Baidu, the top search engine company in China — has begun to do so as […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Tesla is apparently really eager to get Model S drivers sipping the autopilot kool aid, and it’s kicking efforts into high gear. Model S owners with Autopilot hardware but who did not purchase the option are starting to get in-car popups pitching a free 30-day trial of autopilot. While Tesla has not shared […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Tesla is set to disrupt the heck out of the auto market, according to many of us who watch the industry closely, and search trends on Google may be one of the earliest indicators. I have tried hard to remember who passed this insight on to me, but have been unable to […]
BMW has unveiled a new strategy, dubbed iNext, that calls for the company to focus on automated driving, digital connectivity, electrification, and lightweight construction, among other things, according to recent reports. The new “Project i 2.0” will see the company aim to “broaden its technical expertise” in the aforementioned areas — with the intent being […]
A riderless (semi-autonomous) electric bicycle prototype has reportedly been created by a crowdfunded London-based startup known as Sparky Automotive. Utilizing electronic gyroscope technology similar to the Segway, the riderless electric bicycle can apparently safely work its way through road junctions, traffic lights, and pedestrian crosswalks in a similar way to an autonomous car according to […]
While no one using Tesla’s new Summon feature to call their car to the curb where they are waiting is likely to be too worried about being struck by the car themselves, parents of small children or owners of small pets are probably at the very least a bit apprehensive about using it. After all, […]
Search on the internet for famous people who have passed this year. Take a look at how many died from automobile accidents. Of course, it is not the famous only who have died in motor vehicles — but this is a bit more personalized than reading statistics. Sometimes, it seems as citizens, we accept the status quo […]
People often ask me about the energy flowing into my LEAF from the charging station. Well, here is Nissan’s larger plan: in a brief and stunning video below promoting a kinder future for our children and grandchildren, Nissan states, “Charged by the sun, the wind, & the oceans, cars could (will) empower people to store […]
An analyst for the notable market investment website The Motley Fool recently got the chance to try Tesla’s Autopilot feature out on a long stretch of highway (exactly the circumstance that the feature was designed for, as correctly noted in the article). So, how did the Autopilot technology perform when used the way it’s intended […]
While Tesla owners in the US have had access to the company’s new semi-autonomous “Summon” feature — which allows owners to send their car to autonomously park itself, or summon it to the front door from the garage, etc — owners in many other countries have had to wait a bit longer (pending approval from […]
The autonomous driving technologies company Mobileye NV has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nissan with the intent of integrating Mobileye’s new Road Experience Management technology into the Japanese company’s fleets. The move means that Nissan has now joined the likes of General Motors (GM) and Volkswagen in possessing a partnership with Mobileye, […]
There was a recent posting on reddit where a Tesla Model S owner in Germany detailed a situation at night (and in a construction zone) where the engaged Autopilot function apparently ran him, ever so slightly, into a concrete wall with yellow reflectors on it. While the damage was apparently minor, repair costs on Teslas […]
Autonomous cars seem to be everywhere nowadays (that’s an exaggeration, I know), with the latest sighting being a driverless Audi A8 L W12 that served as a VIP shuttle at Berlinale. The driverless Audi in question apparently relied upon easily identifiable buildings for its orientation, along with other computations. This was then compared against a […]
Indeed, humans need help on the road. Automobile accidents take people’s lives away every day. Anyone on the road sees collisions all too often. Driving demands split-second judgement and navigation in streams of fast-flowing traffic. On a positive note, automakers are implementing autonomous driving hardware and software to cut down on such human challenges and […]