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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...
Didn't we tell you about the tragic death of Star Trek Actor Anton Yelchin?! Also we have informed you a month before about all the FCA skeletons getting out of the closet and by that we mean those 260 crashes which got linked to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Now that The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has started its own investigation the company realized it needs to start a new recall. It's not anymore that light recall you're all used to hear about, pay attention at the numbers 410,000 vehicles worldwide need to be tested. Don't pass this news like it...
A study published today revealed that more than four out of five people would prefer not to ride in fully autonomous vehicles. Almost 50% of the respondents would like to drive in a simple vehicle with no self-driving capabilities, maybe just with partially self-driving or completely self-driving technology, it is what the results of the study from University of Michigan show. Only 6% of the participants at this study would like to drive such a car, while 39% of them prefer partially self-driving cars. If we'd have to make some comparisons between the young drivers and the...
News about car recalls are not a rarity anymore. Among other announcements about vehicle recalls throughout the world, Fiat Chrysler reported it is recalling nearly 600,000 Jeep Wrangler SUVs and Fiat 500 subcompact cars worldwide. Wranglers are being recalled to inspect the clockspring, a part in the steering wheel that aids with airbag deployment. The automaker declared after an investigation that dust and dirt gathered from off-road driving can compromise the clockspring and eventually prevent driver-side airbag deployment in a crash. For the moment there are no rep...
The carmaker has recalled and stopped the sale of more than 260,000 of Mazda CX-5 vehicles over fuel leak concerns, and 19,000 examples of the 2004–2006 B-Series pickup. The issue stems from the filler pipe that connects the fuel port to the tank itself. A rear-end collision might rupture the pipe, which could then begin leaking fuel. Worst-case scenario, a fuel leak near a spark source could result in a fire. Thus far, Mazda has not heard of any accidents or injuries related to this issue.The pickups contain Takata-sourced driver's side airbag inflators that could rupture in a ...
