GM Killed Off Cruise With A Slack Message
There are a lot of shitty ways to find out the project you’ve been working on for months or years has been scrapped, but few seem as inhuman as a …
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$30,000 Tesla May Not Be Dead After All
People who have been holding out hope for a cheaper Tesla shouldn’t abandon that dream just yet. A new report from Deutsche Bank shows that a new sub-$30,000 Tesla is …
GM Bails On Cruise To Focus On Super Cruise After Burning Billions On Robotaxi Development
Photo: Shutterstock/Phil Pasquini (Shutterstock) General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi mapping unit returned to the Bay Area in September, about a year after one of its cars hit a pedestrian. That didn’t …
Tesla Cybercab Will Be Remote Controlled Until FSD Improves
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, December 10, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
How Competent Are Waymo’s Robotaxis? Wired Followed One All Day To Find Out
Automated driving technology has come a long way in the last 20 years, but it still isn’t great, and it certainly won’t replace all or even most drivers before the …
Trump Now Has Control Of Tesla Full Self-Driving Safety Probe
The reasoning behind Elon Musk’s decision to heavily back former (and future) President Donald Trump as well as be the “first buddy” is becoming more clear now. The Trump Administration …
Even Tesla’s Twitter Account Is Only Kept In Check By U.S. Regulators
Remember back in April, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Tesla it could no longer call its semi-autonomous software “Full Self-Driving,” and that it had to throw a …
Self-Driving Cars Will Ruin Cities, Not Fix Them
If you’re delusional enough to believe Tesla CEO and Unelected Co-President Elon Musk, cheap robotaxis are just around the corner, ready to revolutionize transportation as we know it. They aren’t, …
Google Patents Tech That Won’t Let You Drive If It Decides You’re Doing A Bad Job
Photo: JASON HENRY / Contributor (Getty Images) Tesla gets more headlines than Waymo, but Google’s robotaxi division is the one to beat in the slog that has become the race …
Tesla’s Vision Of Robotaxis As ‘Individualized Mass Transit’ Is Laughable
Tesla recently revealed its idea of a robotaxi — a two-seater with no controls that will take you anywhere you want to go, only cost $30,000 and will go on …