DETROIT — On the floor of the North American International Auto Show, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx pledged $4 billion over the next 10 years will be spent testing connected vehicle systems in designated corridors across the country. Foxx also promised that over the next six months the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would…
DETROIT — Toyota is working to get data to and from your car as fast as and as safely as possible and satellites might be the answer. The Japanese automaker unveiled one of its flat-panel satellite communication vehicles at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in partnership with sat-comm company Kymeta. The hydrogen fuel…
If you had told me five years ago that General Motors — more specifically, Cadillac— was going to make a car like the ATS-V, I would have callously laughed at you in disbelief. That’s because nothing in the carmaker’s history would suggest it could go from making woefully outdated, quasi-luxury geriatric land-barges into producing a…
Some people buy Tesla’s fast-accelerating electric vehicles not for their performance but rather for their eco-friendly, polar bear-saving powertrains Ironically, once these buyers have plunked down the $100,000 (on average) for their Tesla, they are then forced to choose between interiors fitted with the skin of deceased cows or regular old cloth. See also: 5…
DETROIT — Utility and luxury were both on display in full force in Detroit for the North American International Auto Show this week. So, too, were vehicles that dared to reshape and reimagine their brands. Alongside the likes of the tech-savvy Mercedes-Benz E-Class and versatile Honda Ridgeline pickup, there were some companies keen to remake…
Federal regulations regarding the implementation and operation of self-driving cars might be in the works. According to Reuters, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is set to be in Detroit Thursday to discuss the Obama administration’s efforts to lay out nationwide guidelines for the introduction of self-driving vehicles. The administration aims to speed up the process of…
A 13-year-old boy in Somalia taught himself to build motorized toy cars from batteries and plastic scraps — and earned himself a free education in the process Guled Adan Abdi has rarely attended school on a regular basis. He goes to class in the city of Buuhoodle when he can, but has only made it…
DETROIT — Turns out, the first self-driving car you will ride in won’t be one you own; it’ll be one you order up on your smartphone from Lyft. “The first mainstream deployment of autonomous vehicles won’t be to customers but to a ride-share platform,” General Motors President Dan Ammann told Mashable at the North American…
DETROIT — Even Buick admits it: Most people under 30 have no opinion of Buick as a brand. Most carmakers would find that extremely distressing — especially one with such a long lineage. For Buick, however, it’s an opportunity. The blank slate means the successful luxury brand (it outsold Audi in 2015) has a chance…
Volkswagen’s plan to address the Dieselgate scandal in the U.S. just hit a wall. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board informed the Volkswagen Group that the agencies have rejected the German automaker’s plan to the repair its U.S. 2.0-liter diesel models affected by the Dieselgate. Specifically, CARB says the repairs do…