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Recently, video surfaced of a Tesla TSLA plowing into a stationary object. In this case, it was an overturned truck blocking two full lanes of a highway in Taiwan. As usual the immediate speculation was that this was another failure of Tesla’s…

In the wake of Tesla’s recent announcement of 2015 financial results and a Bloomberg report that the upcoming Model 3 could cost as little as $25,000, it’s worth taking a looking at the prospects for the more affordable electric car with a somewhat…

It may seem like the whole world is ditching their cars for SUVs and crossovers. Several automakers including Ford and Fiat Chrysler have already ditched most of their car models in favor of more utilities. Nonetheless, some brands remain convinced…

Back when Ford still owned Land Rover and Jaguar, there always seemed to be rumors that Jaguar was going to add an SUV to its lineup of sedans and GT coupes. The assumption was Jaguar would create a badge-engineered version of a Range Rover. This…

Today Ford CEO Mark Fields made a major announcement about the company's plans to introduce 13 new electrified models by 2020. Part of that announcement involved a major investment in the Flat Rock, Mich. assembly plant and the cancellation of a new…

In response to German officials asking Tesla to stop using the term AutoPilot for its driver assistance system, the automaker commissioned a survey of owners to gauge what they really understood. The good news from the results is that the glass is…

Pizza. Technology.
If you think of those two words together, it’s probably because you’re thinking of programmers working in a dark lab, late at night with a cold pie and a Red Bull at their side. At Domino’s Farms on the northeast side of Ann Arbor,…

As General Motors spiraled toward bankruptcy in 2008 and 2009, the brand that launched the once dominant automaker was perilously close to joining Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer on the scrap heap. Two things saved Buick from extinction, China…

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…

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…