Tag: automateddriving

29 NOV

GM and Cruise Finally Give a Peek behind the Curtain of Their Automated-Driving Program

– General Motors has noodled with the idea of automated vehicles since at least the mid-1950s, when the company produced a film with its Firebird II concept car that showed a family cruising down a highway autonomously. Now, more than six decades later, GM claims to be getting close to making its first highly automated […]

26 SEP

Traffic Jamming: In the 2019 Audi A8, We Let Automated-Driving Tech Take the Wheel

– Our first opportunity to get into the fourth-generation Audi A8 came with an offbeat premise: We’d be heading out into what Audi boasts is the second most traffic-choked area in the whole of Europe, near the German cities of Essen and Düsseldorf—and we’d be doing so with the hope of getting stuck in traffic. […]

11 MAR

Geohot’s new automated-driving device can only be redeemed by coughing up data

AUSTIN, Texas—At the first day of the SXSW Interactive festival, George “Geohot” Hotz announced an updated business plan for his company Comma.ai, all while revealing a new piece of hardware that will be given away, as opposed to sold: the Panda. Sam Machkovech The small circuit-board device comes with an ODB2 connector on one end, […]