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Several years ago, Cadillac launched a new brand advertising campaign with the tag line “Dare Greatly.” The premise was that those that take risks will often fall short, but they are also the ones that achieve the greatest success. After a decade of…

Even before one of the world’s first test tracks dedicated to autonomous and connected vehicle technology officially opened in July 2015, Ford already had a car cruising around the 32-acre facility collecting data. Now Ford is laying claim to being…

In February 2017, Ford made big news with an announcement that it would invest up to $1 billion in a startup company that had only existed for a few months and had a half dozen employees. Since then Pittsburgh-based Argo.AI has become Ford’s hub for…

Singapore has selected Delphi to provide a fleet of automated taxis in a pilot test, beginning later… [+] this year. Engineers, acting as “safety drivers”, will accompany select commuters in the first phase of the pilot test. By 2019, the company…

The last two years have been particularly challenging for Nissan with declining sales and internal political struggles both within the Japanese automaker’s ranks and with its alliance partner Nissan. An aging product lineup certainly has helped…

Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Waymo probably has the largest and most advanced fleet of automated vehicles in the world today. Thus it seems a bit ironic that getting a first ride in one of the company's Chrysler Pacifica hybrids required a four and a…

The transformation of the Lincoln brand continues this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show with the revival of a once-abandoned nameplate on an all-new platform. Last spring at the New York Auto Show, the world got a preview of the 2020 Lincoln Aviator…

Dozens of companies are rushing headlong into a future where they expect that the more than 270 million registered vehicles in the U.S. will be scrapped and replaced with shared automated vehicles that do everything from get us to work to deliver our…

We've all been there. Stuck behind someone trundling along in the left lane of the highway, at 5 or 10 mph below the speed limit. At some point, even the most pacifist among us have probably wished that we had a button to press that would just…

Back in 2004, Toyota had recently launched the second generation Prius, the first-gen Honda Insight was in its waning years and Ford introduced its first hybrid electric vehicle, the Escape. Unlike the two Japanese cars, the Escape hybrid was one the…