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The modern auto industry races toward a driverless future and the companies developing autonomous cars are rushing the technology to market. But robotics and human interaction experts urgie automakers and regulators to pump the brakes.The main problem is that the production autonomous cars are brought to the market with limited technology demonstrations rather than rigorous testing in extreme operating conditions. Some 275 million miles of fatality-free autonomous car testing is needed to ensure the safe operation of these vehicles on public roads. The m...
The biggest U.S. carmaker General Motors raised its 2016 earnings outlook on Jan. 13 Wednesday as it follows up a banner year of U.S. sales with major product launches and touted the benefits of hard-won efficiencies.General Motors has put together a respectable string of sales strategies: 28 consecutive months of growth in commercial vehicle sales to companies.As GM pulls back from less-profitable sales to rental agencies, the company has channeled much of those resources into the more-lucrative business of selling pickups, vans and Chevrolet Malibus and Equinoxes to contractors, landscapers ...
The Ford Motor company had created a new subsidiary Smart Mobility LLC devoted to advance transportation technologies and business models involving ride-sharing services, autonomous cars and vehicle connectivity. It will collaborate with other technology companies and startups to develop new products. Jim Hackett, former Steelcase vice chairman and CEO, will leave Ford's board of directors to become chairman of the new mobility-services subsidiary.It will be seeking technology partners in Silicon Valley and building on work already under way at Ford, according to a company news relea...
Tesla Motors Inc continues its battle with local dealers: on Wednesday the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association (VADA) filed a lawsuit against Tesla, to keep the electric car maker from opening a second dealership in the state. According to VADA Virginia state officials and Tesla would violate a 2013 agreement that Tesla could not consider owning and operating a second dealership in Virginia until at least August 2017. Tesla opened a dealership in Tysons Corner in the relatively affluent area of northern Virginia, in February 2015. According to VADA repres...
Tesla Motors signed a contract to lease the ground floor space of a building in Red Hook. The company already has a showroom in Chelsea. It seems like Tesla isn’t keen on renewing. Similar to a few other states, law makers in Utah refuse to let the Electric Vehicle automaker sell its cars directly.A new bill has been proposed that would place restrictions on the electric cars' sales. While Utah’s current law states that the EV company has to hire a franchised dealer to sell its vehicles, Tesla says that it can't sell its cars through traditional third-party dealerships...
