Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
Want to work at a new car company? Google is hiring!Google parent company Alphabet has posted ads for 36 positions for marketing to manufacturing jobs on its website related to the Google X car project.One listing for a marketing manager expects the person to shape a "go-to-market strategy and storytelling to win hearts and minds of community members, influences and governments".Another role for a manufacturing process engineer lays out responsibilities which include "designing factory assembly stations, optimizing production floor layout, automating critical manufacturing proce...
Built as the fastest and the most powerful Audi ever, the all-new generation of the R8 has landed in the USA priced as much as a house. The price of entry for an R8 is now $164,150, for the base V10 coupe. That’s a pretty big jump compared to the outgoing, 2015 model, which started at $117,150 for the V8 model. It's the same price as the 2015 model while adding 15 more horsepower, seven more pound-feet of torque, and a tenth of a second to the 0-60 time, which is now estimated at 3.5 seconds. The 2017 R8 adds four miles an hour to its predecessor's 195-mph top speed.Audi might po...
It turns out that Google's self-driving cars still need some human help, according to a report filed this week to meet new regulations for the California DMV on autonomous vehicles. The companies developing these vehicles are putting in more test miles than ever before to improve software capabilites and safety levels. Disengagements, and the reasons behind them, are a critical part of the test process. Of the seven self-driving vehicles makers that filed disengagement reports, there were a total of 2,894 disengagements logged during the period. The most disengagements occurred with G...
U.S. President Barack Obama will talk about the prospects for self-driving cars in his final State of the Union Address.According to government officials, for the first time the president has used the annual speech to tackle an important issue facing the auto and technology industries.Obama is also expected to attend the Detroit Auto Show next Wednesday, Jan 20. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit to talk about administration efforts to speed the introduction of self-driving vehicles.Foxx is expected to talk about efforts by the Obama administration to speed up the in...
Google and Ford will create an independent company to build autonomous vehicles.The partnership is set to be announced by Ford at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, where the startup autonomous-electric automaker Faraday Future also plans to display its first concept car.By pairing with Google, Ford gets a massive boost in self-driving software development; while the automaker has been experimenting with its own systems for years, it only revealed plans this month to begin testing on public streets in California. Google has 53 test vehicles on the road in California and Texas, with...
