Self-driving Vehicles

DETROIT General Motors has watched with frustration and envy as the market value of electric carmaker Tesla has ballooned to more than triple GM's size, but Wednesday the Detroit automaker will present the case that its EV and self-driving technology strategy… Read More

A Tesla employee talks to a potential customer. Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images Tesla vehicles have features that may be unfamiliar to new owners.Business Insider asked five current and former Tesla employees what customers should know about their cars that might surprise them.Their answers touched on production quality,…

Waymo, the autonomous arm of Alphabet, which owns Google, said yesterday it was partnering with UPS to deploy an unannounced number of self-driving hybrid Chrysler Pacificas to deliver packages as part of a small-scale initiative in Arizona. The better news y…

LOS ANGELES United Parcel Service on Wednesday said it is ordering 10,000 electric delivery trucks from UK-based Arrival Ltd and teaming with self-driving startup Waymo, as package carriers work to cut costs and tailpipe pollution. The UPS/Arrival partnershi… Read More

(Reuters) General Motors will invest $2.2 billion in its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to build electric trucks and sport utility vehicles, a move that would create 2,200 jobs, the No.1 U.S. automaker said on Monday. The company said its first electric tr…

Toyota is building a 175-acre smart city at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji, about 62 miles from Tokyo, the company announced earlier this month at CES, the biggest tech trade show of the year. The "city of the future" will function as a testing ground for te…

Most automakers offer some form of advanced driver assistance features, including automatic lane keeping on highways and radar cruise control. Tesla’s Autopilot, for all its faults, is one of the most advanced available. When enabled on highways, the car will handle most of the driving, but the driver still needs…

Uber Advanced Technologies Group will start mapping Washington, D.C., ahead of plans to begin testing its self-driving vehicles in the city this year. Initially, there will be three Uber vehicles mapping the area, a company spokesperson said. These vehicles, which will be manually driven and have two trained employees inside,…

Magna isn't fully severing ties with Lyft, in which it invested $200 million in 2018, but the self-driving partnership seems to have been impacting its bottom line. They'll keep working together on other autonomy-related software and hardware. Lyft has also c…

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