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After a pedestrian was struck and killed in Tempe, Ariz., on Sunday night by one of Uber’s automated driving prototypes, the city police initially seemed to think it was an unavoidable accident. However, a completely different picture emerges from…

Since the turn of the current century, Cadillac has struggled mightily to transform its brand image from a purveyor of old-school American land barges to a creator of engaging drivers cars. In that time, particularly the last half decade, GM’s…

In the past year, Ford has launched two completely new or redesigned SUVs to its American lineup, the diminutive EcoSport and the flagship of the fleet, Expedition. Over the next 24 months, everything between these bookends will also get replaced and…

After more than a dozen years on sale, the Nissan Titan has continually struggled to gain a foothold in America’s huge and highly profitable full-size truck segment. Despite that, Nissan isn’t giving up on its big truck and as the second-generation…

Over the 17 years since its passage, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has become one of the most abused laws on the books in the United States. This is due in large part to a provision that specifically prohibits circumvention of encryption or…

Back in March when General Motors held its EV day, it revealed a number of interesting design details about its new Ultium. Among these was the decision to integrate the battery management system (BMS) into each module of the pack. GM has now…

In late October of this year, Toyota finally began U.S. customer deliveries of its long-awaited Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle and by the end of 2015 it should be highest volume FCV yet. That’s not saying a lot given that neither of the previously…

As we have seen in the past week, testing automated vehicles on public roads is a risky endeavor that can easily turn into tragedy if the system doesn’t work right. It’s also incredibly costly and time consuming. Vehicles can spend hours, days or…

Five years ago it seemed like every other software engineer in Silicon Valley was loading up on some venture capital money in hopes of striking it rich with automated driving (AD). Right about now we were all supposed to turn over the driving task to…

May you live in interesting times.
Regardless of the origins of that phrase, for those of us that cover the auto industry, it usually ends up being an apt description of our lives. Shortly before I began writing professionally about cars, another of…