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Fast Company Chris Gayomali |
This Is How Google's Driverless Cars Navigate Tricky Roadblocks In a new blog post, Google shows us how its smart cars assess and navigate some of the trickier traffic scenarios, like, say, a road construction bottleneck near its Mountain View campus. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Google's Self-Driving Cars Coming to Mountain View Roads This Summer Google announced today that they will begin formally testing self-driving cars on Mountain View's streets, where the tech giant is headquartered, as part of its efforts to ready the vehicles for the road. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Self-Driving Cars Successfully Avoid Collision Autonomous cars just hit a new milestone: successfully avoiding an accident involving two self-driving cars from two different companies. |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2010 Anil Das |
Google Tests Driverless Cars The company's blog says the project could make roads safer and free up commuting time. |
Fast Company Michael Grothaus |
Obama Administration To Announce Self-Driving Car Initiative Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit on Thursday to discuss the administration's initiative to get autonomous vehicles on the road faster in part by laying down a legal framework and guidelines that governs their use. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Coelingh & Solyom |
All Aboard the Robotic Road Train Semi autonomous cars will play follow the leader, giving drivers a rest and saving fuel |
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Siddharth Philip |
Driving in India: Cars, Corruption, Collisions In India, the roads are dangerous, the lawlessness is rampant, and the highways are getting more crowded by the minute. |
The Motley Fool December 26, 2010 Anil Das |
Does a Driverless Car Mean Road Safety? Google's automated car brings up lots of questions about new legalities. |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2010 Anil Das |
Has Google Lost Its Focus? Or does it just have the cash to burn? |
National Defense August 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Army, Car Makers Push Ahead With Driverless Vehicle Research When it comes to concepts for vehicles that can drive themselves on highways or city streets, the military and automakers have been working on similar paths for several years. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2005 |
Rapid Automotive Depreciation Think twice about purchasing that new car -- it will plunge in value quickly. |
Fast Company Jessica Hullinger |
GM Partners With Lyft To Build A Network Of Self-Driving Cars Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, announced today that it is partnering with General Motors to create a network of on-demand self-driving cars. |
Scientific American October 2007 Mark Alpert |
Saving Gas and Lives Can the U.S. improve fuel economy without sacrificing safety? |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2009 Ian Rowley |
China's Carmakers Are Gaining on Foreign Rivals Helped by government incentives, China's carmakers share of the domestic car market is growing while those of GM and the like are falling. |
IndustryWeek April 21, 2010 Steve Minter |
Charged Up About Electric Cars Household names and newcomers alike are racing to develop cars that offer freedom from the gas pump. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Your Car May Soon Be Able To Alert You To Weather Conditions Inrix, a leading provider of traffic data, has created a product called Road Weather, which aggregates data from a car's GPS location, brake sensors, fog lights, and thermometers inside Internet-connected cars, and combines them with publicly available weather information. |
BusinessWeek December 2, 2010 Keane & Green |
Green Energy: Why Hybrids Still Need Government Motors As the next generation of plug-in cars comes online, a decline in hybrid sales doesn't bode well for their success. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Another Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Minor Accident, This Time With Injuries This was the first time a crash involving a Google car resulted in injuries. |
Science News March 16, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Highway Relativity Freeway drivers often get the sense that the other lane is moving faster than the one they're in. A number of recent mathematical studies have shown that this owes to both truth and quirks of perception... |
Popular Mechanics July 2006 Logan Ward |
Highway of the Future: Interstate Intelligence Our nation's highways are being primed for a major transformation, one that will bring them into the wireless information age suitable for the wireless capabilities of our cars. |
Fast Company September 2009 Kate Rockwood |
Janette Sadik-Khan Wants New Yorkers to Walk This Way Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, cut through the congested knots of Manhattan traffic with a novel concept: Close some roads to cars. |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2010 April Taylor |
Can NRG and GE Save Electric Cars? If more electric cars were produced, costs would decline. |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
Uber Partners With The University Of Arizona On Self-Driving Cars Uber is teaming up with the University of Arizona to continue its research into self-driving cars. |
Fast Company Chuck Tannert |
Our Ultimate Driverless Car Report Card Self-driving proponents have to do one thing: Convince people that surrendering the steering wheel to a computer is a good idea. So who's doing the best job of overcoming such considerable obstacles? Take a look -- then take a spin. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2011 Neha Chamaria |
One Sector Dominating the Recession Companies dealing in used cars are making profits. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 John Voelcker |
Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge Six of 11 autonomous vehicles finish 90-kilometer course with no major accidents. |
Inc. November 2007 |
Enterprise At a Glance Enterprise has the world's largest fleet of rental cars, as well as the largest number of fuel efficient or hybrid vehicles. Here are some other facts about the company. |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2013 Farhad Manjoo |
Smart Cars: Fill 'Er Up With Apps We have to figure out a way to harness the people who want to make our cars better. |
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade. |
Popular Mechanics March 10, 2010 Gregory Anderson |
Driving Hazards More Dangerous Than Unintended Acceleration Accidents caused by unintended acceleration are tragic, but texting or talking on the phone while driving is far more likely to kill you. Here is a breakdown of the main offenders, by the numbers. |
Salon.com September 4, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Steal this car! General Motors wants to take its pioneering electric automobiles off the road. But the geeks who drive them won't let go of the steering wheel. |
Popular Mechanics April 16, 2009 Larry Webster |
Does Insurance Institute Crash Study Conflict with Fuel-Economy Standards? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a study that confirmed when two cars collide, the lighter one usually loses. Does this mean that small cars are necessarily less safe? Not exactly. |
PC Magazine October 9, 2010 Mark Hachman |
Google Developing a Self-Driving Car, And It Works Google is developing - and has extensively tested - technology to build an autonomously self-driving car, Google said on Saturday. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2011 Sarosh Nicholas |
An Imminent Catalyst for the Hybrid Revolution The recent rise in oil prices could spur a surge in demand for hybrid vehicles as prices even out. |
Popular Mechanics March 26, 2008 Mike Allen |
Can America Find True Happiness in a Microcar? Mechanic's Diary With high gas prices and growing environmental concerns, it may finally be the right time to introduce microcars to the U.S. |
BusinessWeek March 20, 2006 Dexter Roberts |
Kicking Used Tires There is a growing market for secondhand vehicles in China. |
PC Magazine May 31, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Bits & Bites v25n11 The Defense Department has announced its third Grand Challenge competition for robotic cars, to be held in November 2007. |
Wired July 24, 2007 Bob Parks |
Robot Buses Pull In to San Diego's Fastest Lane In response to heavy traffic loads, San Diego Country is working on a dedicated truck and bus lanes with lane-keeping sensors and adaptive cruise controls. |
The Motley Fool December 5, 2010 |
Ford to Install Rearview Cameras by End of 2011 The automaker works toward compliance with a federal mandate. |
National Defense December 2007 Grace Jean |
What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2006 Robert Aronen |
Where's My Chevette? The economic argument against investing in oil companies suggests that high gasoline prices will cause demand to fall and prices at the pump to recede. But automakers know better and are giving the consumer just what they want -- style and muscle. |
BusinessWeek July 16, 2009 Rowley & Hall |
A Future Shock for Electric Cars? This summer marks a milestone in green motoring. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Motor will soon start selling its $48,000 electric minicar, the i-MiEV, beating out Subaru, Nissan Motor, and China's BYD Auto, all of which have designs on the electric-car market. |
Popular Mechanics December 2009 Michael Belfiore |
How Better Place's Robotic Battery Swap Stations Work It takes more than just a vehicle to convince consumers to adopt electric cars. Recharging their batteries has to be as easy as filling up a tank of gas. |
Popular Mechanics December 2006 Ben Stewart |
Is Your Car Smarter Than You Are? The computing power of the family car has grown exponentially. The question is: Do we like it? |
The Motley Fool May 1, 2008 Christopher Barker |
GM Suffers a Broken Axle The auto maker reports a huge loss, but investors are encouraged anyway. |
AskMen.com October 16, 2015 Justin Quirk |
Tesla Autopilot Review As Tesla's autopilot launches, are we ready for driverless cars? |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
The Safest Cars Unsafe vehicles for 2006: Hyundai Elantra... Nissan Sentra... Kia Optima... etc. Safe vehicles: Ford Five Hundred/Mercury Montego... Volkswagen Audi A6... Saab 9-3... Subaru Legacy... etc. |
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Ian Rowley |
China: Booming Car Sales, Tiny Profits The small, inexpensive autos favored in the soon-to-be No. 1 Chinese auto market make it tough to make a buck. |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 |
Fully Charged As the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf cars near dealers, here's a look at what designers are dreaming up next |
Popular Mechanics August 3, 2007 Nick Mokey |
U.S. vs. Foreign Auto Market Showdown: Car Owner Straw Poll As we continue to analyze just how overseas automakers took a majority share of the American car market, the owners of five cars in New York City offered their quick thoughts on the future of the U.S.-built vehicle. |