In the space of companies working on automated driving systems, there is essentially Tesla and everyone else. Tesla CEO Elon Musk derides lidar, high definition maps and geofencing as unnecessary crutches for anyone developing automated driving. In…

Nissan is launching ProPilot Assist in America late this year on the second-generation Leaf and they want everyone to take particular note of the second word in that brand. In January 2017, Nissan’s then-CEO Carlos Ghosn delivered two keynotes just…

For give me for continuing to beat this dead horse, but as the satirical posters in many offices say, the beatings will continue until morale improves. I am a fan of station wagons and I think for the vast majority of people that crossovers and…

It’s fascinating how two seemingly totally disconnected events can sometimes turn out to be so closely tied. Last night, after speaking at a conference in downtown Chicago, I used Lyft to get to O’Hare airport for my return to Detroit. This morning…

In recent months we’ve been hearing more and more about the software-defined car as the future. Increasingly, almost all systems in the vehicle are being controlled by computers and that has led to a massive proliferation of code and processors.…

There was a surprise announcement from Waymo this week that it took in $2.25 billion in outside investment. It’s noteworthy because it’s the first time since the Google self-driving-car project was launched in 2009 that funding had come from anywhere…

On Saturday evening, barely 48 hours after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a fraud lawsuit against Tesla CEO and Chairman Elon Musk, the regulator announced a settlement in the case. Musk and the company will each pay a $20 million…

A lot of practical realities like cost and operational reliability mean that the kind of go-anywhere full self-driving capability people like Elon Musk aim for is unlikely to come to the mainstream anytime in the near future. Even the sort of limited…

General Motors and its Cruise Automation subsidiary have been leaders in the automated driving space in recent years, while Honda has definitely been lagging behind, taking a more cautious approach to deployment. That’s about to change as Honda, GM…

Even by the standards of Tesla and its mercurial CEO Elon Musk, the last few weeks have been strange ones. Ever since Musk tweeted out on August 7, 2018 that he was considering taking the company private there has been rampant speculation about who…