automotive engineering

Waymo After several years of testing its autonomous vehicles on city streets without a human engineer behind the wheel, Waymo is about to send its fully driverless cars onto freeways for the first time. The Alphabet-owned company announced the move in a blog post on Monday, signaling a notable expansion of its driverless car program. Waymo has been offering robotaxi rides to regular folks enrolled in its Waymo One ridesharing program in Phoenix and San Francisco, but the first freeway rides across Phoenix will be…

It’s not getting any easier for beleaguered autonomous-car startup Cruise after a report on Tuesday suggested its main backer, General Motors (GM), is about to slash funding for the startup. Cruise recently suspended nationwide testing on U.S. streets following a string of troubling incidents involving its autonomous cars, the most serious of which occurred in San Francisco last month when a Cruise car came to a halt on top of a woman who seconds earlier had been knocked over by a human-driven vehicle. GM will reveal…

Cruise co-founder Daniel Kan has quit the beleaguered autonomous-car company, Reuters reported on Monday. His departure as chief product officer comes a day after Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt announced he was leaving the company that the pair set up 10 years ago. The significant upheaval follows a string of safety-related incidents involving its driverless cars on the streets of San Francisco, the same city where the General Motors-backed startup is headquartered. The most of serious of these happened in San…

Last Updated: July 12, 2023, 09:45 ISTAbhishek Agarwal is the First Owner of McLaren Artura in India. (Photo: Viralbhayani)Abhishek Agarwal, owner of Purple Style Labs, becomes the first person in India to own a McLaren Artura, showcasing his passion for innovation and luxury.Purple Style Labs, the renowned fashion and lifestyle conglomerate, has yet again made headlines with its CEO, Abhishek Agarwal, becoming the proud owner of the prestigious McLaren Artura, making him the first individual in India to acquire this…

Waymo is expanding the service area for its robotaxi service in Phoenix, Arizona, and San Francisco, California, paving the way for longer trips across more communities. In a blog post on Thursday, May 4, Alphabet-owned Waymo said it’s doubling its service area in Phoenix and as a result now serves 180 square miles of The Valley, an expansion that it clams makes it “the largest fully autonomous service area in the world.” It’s also nearly four times the size of the initial service area when its robotaxi service…

The basics of engineering will stay, but they will start branching out into sub-categories and evolve into more specialized domains.Ravi Kumar (19), fresh out of school had been a car fanatic from childhood. While his parents wanted him to opt for Medicine, he was clear he wanted to become a Mechanical engineer.However, over the past years, Kumar says his single minded focus towards Mechanical Engineering (ME) is in two minds as everyone is recommending him to opt for…