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Volvo has announced a partnership with the ride-sharing company Uber to develop fully autonomous cars together. In this joint project, Volvo will manufacture the base vehicles which will then be bought by Uber. The two companies are each investing $300 million towards this project. Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, said: “Over one million people die in car accidents every year. These are tragedies that self-driving technology can help solve, but we can’t do this alone.“That’s why our partnership with a great manufacturer like Volvo is so important. Vol...
While smart cars are a 21st century thing, the convenience has a darker side. Researchers have shown that it takes a tool as cheap as $40 to bypass the “keyless system” in tens of millions of Volkswagen cars, including Audis and SEATs.Four European researchers say hackers can easily eavesdrop on the signal which is sent every time a driver presses their key fob to lock or unlock a car. All the thieves need is a cheap technical device and to be somewhere within 100 meters of a vehicle. Flavio Garcia and his team at the University of Birmingham reverse-engineered an undisclosed compo...
Amnon Shashua the Co-founder and CTO of Mobileye, announced that they would end their relationship with Tesla Motors at the end of the current EyeQ3's lifecycle.Mobileye will continue to provide technical support of its EyeQ3 processor for the California-based electric-vehicle maker, but won't develop more Autopilot-related products.Instead, Mobileye will direct more of its resources towards its partnership with BMW and Intel on further developing autonomous-driving features.Shashua didn't quite spell out the reasons for ending the relationship, but the strong hint was that Mobiley...
After the tragic death of Anton Yelchin, all of Fiat Chrysler's skeletons got out of the closet. The investigation of the Jeep Grand Cherokee models has started and it brought up some new proof on the fact that Grand Cherokee had some serious defects. U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesday that 68 injuries and 266 crashes on the same model were reported. All of the affected models had a type of gear-shifting control that has confused some consumers and led to rollaway incidents. After that The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicated that there were no deat...
It's time to forget about those high cost of meeting new fuel economy standards and massive investments needed for autonomous vehicles, the biggest problem in the profitability of the automakers might be the buyers and their impatience.Less than 5% of new vehicles in U.S. in 2015 were built to customer order, which is so much lower than in Europe were about 50% of the vehicles were produced on customer orders. Did you know that for U.S. dealers it means thousands of dollars in extra floorplan expenses while for automakers it's a huge advertising and incentive costs for each unsold vehi...
