A self-driving car demonstrates how it can steer clear of a cyclist in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province, last month.[Photo by Zhang Jie/for China Daily] The nation has completed the first draft of nationwide regulations for road tests of internet-connected vehicles and self-driving cars, as part of the broad push to gain a lead in… Continue reading National rules drafted for autonomous cars
Category: Automotive
Udacity’s ‘flying car’ engineering course starts next month
Flying cars have always been a goalpost of the future, but last year companies like Toyota, Airbus, DeLorean and Volvo’s parent company invested in or announced plans to get their own units flying soon. If you wanted to get in on the ground floor of tomorrow’s transportation, you might try joining the first class of… Continue reading Udacity’s ‘flying car’ engineering course starts next month
The First Driverless Uber Could Hit the Road as Soon as Next Year
In Brief Uber will soon use autonomous vehicles to transport passengers. The company’s CEO said the first self-driving cars will hit the road within the next 18 months. Autonomous Vehicles Uber’s long-term goal for it ride-hailing service is to phase out human drivers in favor of wholly autonomous vehicles. Now, the company’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has… Continue reading The First Driverless Uber Could Hit the Road as Soon as Next Year
100,000 Orders Already Taken for New Opel Insignia Flagship
100,000 Orders Already Taken for New Opel Insignia Flagship 2018-01-24 State-of-the-art equipment and options Moderate running costs Marketplace popularity matched by media success Rüsselsheim. Less than one year after the start of sales, Opel has already taken more than 100,000 orders for the new Insignia from all over Europe. Manufactured at the Rüsselsheim plant in… Continue reading 100,000 Orders Already Taken for New Opel Insignia Flagship
The merger of the car-sharing daughters will come soon
BMW and Daimler are advancing in the proposed merger of their car sharing services, according to a newspaper report. The brands Drive Now and Car2Go should be preserved. Car2Go Smart Tuesday, 23.01.2018 18:13 clock BMW and Daimler its subsidiaries Drive Now and Car2Go are looking for information fromFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“The negotiations are on the home… Continue reading The merger of the car-sharing daughters will come soon
SEAT to recruit 115 more employees at the Martorell plant
SEAT is going to hire 115 new employees to boost production at the Martorell factory. These workers currently have an employment agency contract and will be joining SEAT beginning on February 5th with an open-ended contract. The integration of these 115 new recruits will build on the 150 who joined the company on 8 January… Continue reading SEAT to recruit 115 more employees at the Martorell plant
Autoliv concludes strategic review and prepares for spin-off of its Electronics segment
Tue, Dec 12, 2017 08:30 CET (Stockholm, Sweden, December 12, 2017) – Autoliv, Inc. (NYSE: ALV and SSE: ALIVsdb), the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, today announced that its Board of Directors has concluded its strategic review and decided to prepare for a spin-off of its Electronics business segment, creating a new, independent publicly… Continue reading Autoliv concludes strategic review and prepares for spin-off of its Electronics segment
Ford UAW workers will get $7,500 profit-sharing checks
But low to moderate gas prices have propelled robust sales of large pickup trucks such as the 2016 Ford F-150 pickup that improved its fuel economy from the prior generation by using aluminum body panels. (Photo: Ford Motor Company) Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday afternoon that its year-end earnings were down slightly from analyst projections due… Continue reading Ford UAW workers will get $7,500 profit-sharing checks
Alphabet Launches New Company Focused on Cybersecurity Services
Google has a new sister: Parent company Alphabet Inc. announced on Wednesday the formation of a new subsidiary company, called Chronicle, focused on cybersecurity. Chronicle was formed in 2016 inside of X, Alphabet’s experimental lab that has produced its driverless car effort, Waymo, and projects on drones, internet connectivity and the Google Glass headset. Stephen… Continue reading Alphabet Launches New Company Focused on Cybersecurity Services
Faraday Future’s HR head resigns as cultural rift in the workforce deepens
Troubled EV startup Faraday Future scrounged up new funding at the end of 2017, and even made a surreptitious appearance at CES, wooing CNET and a few paid YouTube influencers with the intoxicating speed of its electric car. But turmoil still exists inside the company, and the latest casualty is company’s head of HR, Crystal… Continue reading Faraday Future’s HR head resigns as cultural rift in the workforce deepens