Self-driving Vehicles

Sunak may cut VAT and pump billions into the economy Rishi Sunak is willing to slash VAT and pump billions into the economy, reports The Sunday Times. As social distancing rules are lifted, the chancellor is considering options to reduce the sales tax, including a cut in the headline rate,…

BMW and Mercedes may have also been too ambitious. When they announced the collaboration last July, they said their goal was to start selling Level 4 self-driving cars, with the ability to handle freeway driving and parking on their own, by 2024. Automotive executives like Ford CEO Jim Hackett have…

German automaker BMW has announced that it will freeze its self-driving technology development program with Mercedes-Benz after a steep plunge in demand for its vehicles due to the coronavirus. BMW will also get rid of 6,000 jobs, which accounts for 5% of its global employment force of 120,000 people. The…

RTHK's satirical show, Headliner, will be airing its last show on Friday night after three decades, amid controversy over its criticism of the police force. The public broadcaster has decided to suspend its production after the Communications Authority issued a warning saying a February episode "denigrated and insulted" the police.…

Considering drive-by shootings in an era of self-driving cars. Getty Drive-by shootings continue to be in the news and seem to be occurring at an alarming pace. Those that undertake this heinous act are often doing so on the basis that they believe they will not be caught. Here’s why…

Interior of autonomous car. Driverless vehicle. Self driving. UGV. Advanced driver assistant system. Getty Federal safety regulators on Monday launched an effort to get companies working on autonomous vehicle technology to share more data about the limits of their systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is creating an online…

The Nokia 9.3 PureView will not use a kooky camera setup from Light. In fact, no other phone will either as the company behind the penta-camera of the previous PureView model is pulling out of the phone business. It looks like Light is refocusing on the car industry where the…

Gill Pratt, CEO Toyota Research Institute, speaks at the Toyota press conference during CES 2019 in ... Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7, 2019. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) AFP via Getty Images The automobile world is in quiet retreat on the topic of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). As…

Mystery pizza deliveries foretells future of self-driving cars. Getty A recent news report indicates that a man has been receiving pizza deliveries for nearly a decade. That might not seem like earth-shattering news, except for the fact that the pizzas were not ordered by the man and he says that…

Cyber-hackers criminally aim to make money via self-driving cars. Getty Put those darned cyber-hacker criminals into jail and throw away the key, some exhort daily. We are all somewhat numbed by the continual announcements about cyber-hackers that have broken into an online database and stolen our personal information, oftentimes doing…