Technology/Autonomous Vehicles

I recently took a couple of weeks off from my work here at The Car Guide and paid a visit to a childhood friend of mine who now lives in San Francisco. He took me to a number of must-see locations including Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. One time, …

Automakers aren’t the only ones trying to reimagine urban mobility. Bridging the gap between cars and gyropods, here’s a one-of-a-kind vehicle called SHANE that impresses in many ways beyond the fact it appears to come straight out of a Blade Runner movie. It’s the brainchild of Shane Chen, who is …

You may have heard of tire-deflating SUV haters , but now there are people waging war against another type of vehicle: self-driving cars. In San Francisco, where Waymo (Alphabet) and Cruise (General Motors) are testing their autonomous prototypes on public roads, a group of irate citizens called Safe Street Rebel …

U.S. auto safety regulators have demanded additional information about Tesla 's Autopilot, threatening civil penalties on the automaker for inadequate response, according to a document request reviewed Thursday by AFP. The July 3 information request from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seeks more details about Tesla's modifications to …

German auto giant Volkswagen said Thursday it will start testing self-driving vehicles in Texas this month, and plans a commercial launch in the state in 2026. Ten ID. Buzz electric minivans will be used in the trials in the state's capital, Austin, the automaker's first autonomous driving test program in …

Tesla is set to realize fully autonomous vehicles “later this year”, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, in the billionaire’s latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone. “In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision,” Musk said via …

We forgive you if you didn’t know that today is National Autonomous Vehicle Day in the U.S. Jeep used the occasion to provide a glimpse of its future-generation, off-road driving technology. Say what? An autonomous Jeep? Yeah, we don’t really get it, either. Jeep owners who like to venture away …

Hyundai ’s future vehicles could get rid of fixed displays and instead feature a new type of rollable screen. Mobis, a division of the Korean automaker specialized in all kinds of technology and mobility solutions, recently unveiled what it calls the world’s first rollable display for automotive applications. The idea …

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are increasingly finding their ways into cars and trucks. Their capabilities are also expanding pretty fast, but that doesn’t mean drivers should trust them completely. There is no such thing as a full self-driving car—and there won’t be for quite some time—despite what some of …

Advanced safety and driver assistance features are increasingly common in modern vehicles, which is both good news and bad news. While these technologies have been shown to help prevent accidents significantly, too many drivers are putting too much trust in them, while others find them too annoying and opt to …