Chinese internet behemoth Baidu started public tests of its self-driving car fleet in Wuzhen. The Smurf-blue cars were manufactured by the…
Lucid Motors shows first EV-Model Codename ‘Atvus’
EV-manufacturer Lucid Motors released a first picture of its coming sedan. The car by the Menlo Park-based startup, that just…
‘Papa Bear’: Google’s first LIDAR System
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has been exhibiting for several years some quite interesting artifacts on self-driving car…
New photos of Google’s 4th Generation Self-driving Car
After my first photos from Chrysler Pacifica Minivans, that were in the process of being equipped with Google’s self-driving technology,…
Autonomous Vehicle Startup Zoox evaluated at $1.55bn
A new investment round of 50 million Dollar raised the evaluation of Zoox to 1.55bn Dollars, as reported by The…
Fear of Bullies: Volvo Won’t Mark Self-Driving Cars
In a field trial scheduled for 2017 in London, where Volvo will test 100 autonomous vehicles, Volvo will abstain from…
How Matchbox Cars are Made – ca. 1962
Who of us didn’t have a collection of miniature toy cars made out of cast iron, which had to survive…
First look at Tesla’s Self-Driving Technology
When Tesla’s Elon Musk announced a few days ago the hardware kit for autonomous driving it seemed far away. But…
Chinese EV-holding LeEco in a Cash-Crunch
The Chinese EV-holding LeEco, which is behind a wide spread net of companies in the media, sports, TV, and electric…
Google cars now master three-point turn
The three-point turn on roads is one of the more complex maneuvers that learners have to demonstrate at their driver…