Driverless taxis have been in the news plenty recently, and never for good reasons. The name Cruise has been a Morning Shift mainstay, due to all the fallout from a car dragging a woman along the ground. One name, though, hasn’t come up much in recent reports: Waymo. AAA Offers an Emergency Charging Solution When … Read more
Waymo After several years of testing its autonomous vehicles on city streets without a human engineer behind the wheel, Waymo will 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 … Read more
It’s not getting any easier for beleaguered autonomous-car startup Cruise after a report on Tuesday suggested its main backer, General Motors (GM), is about to slash funding for the startup. Cruise recently suspended nationwide testing on U.S. streets following a string of troubling incidents involving its autonomous cars, the most serious of which occurred in … Read more
Teslas are already known for being sleek and fast, but there’s an even sleeker and even faster model on the way as Tesla is reviving the beloved Tesla Roadster. The original Tesla Roadster was the company’s first car and was essentially a Tesla powertrain in the body of a Lotus Elise. But the new Roadster … Read more
Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in news. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived Rental Company Sixt Will Begin Dumping Tesla Fleet Due To Repair Costs Image: Sixt Tesla dramatically dropping the retail prices of its electric … Read more
