Automotive safety

Apple has yet to confirm the existence of the Apple Car, but it appears this thing hit another snag on the way to its big reveal. WatchThe M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for Halloween CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishShare this VideoFacebookTwitterEmailRedditLinkview videoThe M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for HalloweenTop Takeaways from the Apple EventMarch 8, 2022The New M3-Powered iMacs Are Triggering Serious Deja VuNovember 6, 2023The Apple Car won’t make its debut until 2028, according to a report from Bloomberg…

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…

The right-to-repair movement has suffered a setback in Massachusetts this week. The Biden administration told car manufacturers not to comply with a state law that would allow independent auto shops and car owners the ability to fix their own vehicles.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarVice first reported that the major concern the Biden administration’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has with the law, which is colloquially titled the Data Access Law, is hacking. To express these concerns, Kerry Kolodziej,…

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…

While many electric cars offer advanced driver assistance tech these days, most of those boil down to a few different technologies working together — like lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control. Generally, they work quite well. Together, they can essentially allow a car to drive itself on the highway under the right conditions. But companies are also working on the next generation of self-driving cars, and there’s been no company more public about this than Tesla, which offers its Full Self-Driving tech. But while…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Anyone feeling overly confident about Tesla’s current driver-assist capabilities should probably sit down and take a look at this footage of a Model S allegedly engaged in Full-Self Driving mode seemingly single-handedly sparking an eight-car pile-up on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge.Multiple angles of the traffic footage, obtained by The Intercept via a public record request, showthe Tesla engage its left indicator and switch lanes before suddenly slamming on the brakes and coming to a…

Ikea and Kodiak Robotics have been working together since August. Image: Warren Little (Getty Images)Ikea is stepping into the future: The Swedish furniture retail giant is testing out autonomous delivery vehicles in Texas with help from Kodiak Robotics.Ikea has tapped Kodiak Robotics, a California-based robotics company specializing in autonomous vehicles like delivery trucks, for help on a new pilot program to test autonomous delivery to Ikea stores. Per Kodiak, the company and Ikea have been in cooperation with each…

U.S. automotive giant Ford’s bringing more driver assistance features to U.S. roads, whether drivers are ready for them or not.This fall, Ford’s electric Mustang Mach-E and Lincoln ActiveGlide 1.2 will both feature hands-free lane changing capabilities, ​​in-lane repositioning, and predictive speed assist, according to a recent press release. The rollout, which Ford touts as a safety improvement, comes despite growing scrutiny around similar advanced driver assistance systems used by competitors (looking at you Tesla)…

General Motors’ big bet on autonomous vehicles, like most human drivers, could stand to improve its left turns.The GM-backed Cruise autonomous vehicle startup was forced to recall 80 of its vehicles and correct its software following a June crash where one of its vehicles may have incorrectly predicted an oncoming vehicle’s path. The crash reportedly left two people injured.According to the National High Safety Traffic Administration’s (NHTSA) recall report, a safety feature called the “reflexive planner” caused the…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)You’ve likely heard of the House Republican Congress and the Congressional Black Caucus, but what about a caucus geared specifically for self-driving vehicles? A pair of bipartisan House representatives are advocating for a new group, called the Congressional Autonomous Vehicle Caucus, which they hope could potentially drive forward long absent federal autonomous vehicle standards.According to a recent Reuters report, Republican representative Robert Latta and Democrat Debbie Dingell…