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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...
US auto safety regulators fined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles $70 million for failing to report key safety data to regulators on death and injury claims linked to their vehicles.The penalty is an amendment to an earlier $105 million fine on Fiat Chrysler over its poor handling of auto recalls, taking the total in the enforcement case to $175 million, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.Fiat Chrysler acknowledged earlier this fall that it failed to provide early warning data to regulators over a period of several years. That data - which includes deaths, injuries, warranty ...
Takata Corp. handled their air bag crisis is the very reason why they lost one of their biggest investors, Sawakami Asset Management. He was one of the automotive supplier, 12th largest shareholder, but the firm lost faith in Takata after the management refused to explain what was happening during the crisis. “We could not help feeling the management is not trustworthy,” fund manager Takahiro Kusakari said in an interview from his office in Tokyo. “We felt Takata had a ‘we are needed and our products are needed, so the business will come back and the situation won&...
We know that electric cars are involved in production, and we know that they’re probably years away from starting the sales. For the past decade, Tesla has creaded the cars of the future: sleekly designed, technically advanced machines that brought with them a vision of how amazing and practical electric cars could be. But now trading as a public company, Tesla is no longer the energetic new kid on the block — and it could be ripe for disruption, if Faraday gets its way. Faraday Future first came into the news last summer when news leaked of its existence and its intention to produ...
In 2006 Caparo T1 supercar has been declared as a "road Formula 1 car". The car is designed by ex-McLaren engineers Ben Scott-Geddes and Graham Helsted, famous for his participation in the creation of the iconic supercar McLaren F1. Project Caparo T1 was also ambitious - the English engineers took as the basic formula race car and adapted it for driving on public roads. The sportscar is equipped with 3.5-liter eight power of 575 hp, which allowed Caparo T1 to accelerate to 330 km / h, and to overcome the first hundred in 2.5 seconds.And now the project is under threat of closure. The...
