Volvo has been extremely busy on the autonomous driving front in recent weeks with major announcements about partnerships with Uber and Autoliv . This week the Chinese-owned, Swedish automaker has rolled out the first of a fleet of partially…

John Krafcik, the CEO of Waymo, stands with the Jaguar I-Pace vehicle, March 27, in New York…. [+] Self-driving car pioneer Waymo will buy up to 20,000 of the electric vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover to help realize its vision for a robotic…

In recent weeks, Tesla Motors stock has recovered virtually of all the value it had lost since the beginning of 2016 after the Palo Alto, Calif., electric vehicle maker gave Wall Street analysts a tour of its re-tooled assembly plant. With just over…

If you have a car built in the last decade or so with anything but the most basic radio setup, chances are it has some voice recognition capability. If it does, the technology behind your car’s ability to understand what you say almost certainly…

One of the biggest challenges for researchers and developers hoping to get involved in automated driving (AD) is getting the data needed to get up and running. There are a variety of open source data sets available for doing work on machine vision…

My passion for cars was ignited early when I encountered a family friend’s blue 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. While I’ve been a fan of the Mustang ever since, owing a couple of them, I am the first to admit that not all Mustangs are created equal. Even…

As we’ve seen from the initial deployments of micro-mobility services over the past year, simply dropping a few thousand shared vehicles on the streets of an urban center will not magically solve any problems. In fact, when done without some planning…

Half a dozen years ago, Nissan really helped to kick-start the current wave of subcompact SUVs that are taking an ever larger share of the American market. The Nissan Juke is no longer the top seller in the segment, but it demonstrated that Americans…

Near the southern edge of Michigan, less than one mile from the Ohio state line, nestled among all the farms sits the Michigan Technical Resource Park (MITRP). Such facilities actually aren’t all that uncommon in Michigan. In a region where the auto…

The first car ever developed by Ferdinand Porsche was a battery electric vehicle (BEV). Now more than 120 years, the brand that bears his name is ready to launch its first ever regular production BEV, the Taycan (pronounced Tie-con). To date, this is…