Qualcomm Inc on Monday announced a computing system for autonomous vehicles designed to handle everything from lane controls to full self-driving that it aims to have on the road by 2023. The system, dubbed Snapdragon Ride, is the company’s first foray into…
Bangalore based Tata Elxsi has unveiled an in-house developed RoboTaxi concept vehicle using AEye’s iDAR platform. iDAR is the first fully software based smart sensor that supports dynamic ROI and cueing of sensors. It extends the range at which objects can be…
We’ve never seen wool and wood used like this. The Tesla Model 3 is popular EV, though some criticize its styling as rather boring. On the flip side, Vilner is known for being anything but boring, and the Model 3 is the…
The little Ford that could? With 350 horsepower (260 kilowatts) and all-wheel drive from the factory, the Ford Focus RS is a very capable automobile. Matt Watson from the CarWow YouTube channel put the hot hatch up against a 585-hp(436-kW) all-wheel-drive-Mercedes G63…
Get Pumped Some automotive parts require replacement more often than others, not necessarily because of bad design but because they live a hard life. In many decades of wrenching, I’ve never had to replace a faulty oil pump and have rarely seen…
One of the rarest of all minivans: a Toyota Previa with all-wheel-drive and a manual transmission. Access to the mid-mounted engine, a straight-four lying on its side, happens via a hatch beneath the front seats. The All-Trac Previas were fairly popular in…
Tesla vehicles not only have the ability to drive themselves in select situations, but they can also apparently order replacement parts for problems you may not even know exist. Much like a T-1000 Terminator can fix problems on the fly, Tesla’s EV…
General Motors’ Cruise autonomous driving division has scored another big investment. According to Reuters, T. Rowe Price and a group of existing investors, including Honda and China’s SoftBank, have put up $1.15 billion for Cruise—therefore valuing a company that’s yet to commercialize…
Tesla vehicles not only have the ability to drive themselves in select situations, but they can also apparently order replacement parts for problems you may not even know exist. Much like a T-1000 Terminator can fix problems on the fly, Tesla’s EV…
The Ford Tempo 4WD is incredibly rare, but its Mercury-badged sibling may be one of the rarest cars…in the world. Ford didn’t start using six-digit odometers in most cars until well into the 1990s, so we can’t say whether this car was…