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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...
The McLaren P1 is a marvel of modern engineering. Still, not everything out there is perfect and the P1 is proof of this. A batch of the cars were just hit with a recall notice. The problems are tied to a defective secondary hood latch that doesn’t re-engage properly, so if the primary latch is inadvertently released, the entire hood may pop open at any time, even when the P1 is moving. Such a scenario would obviously be unfavorable and could cause a crash, especially if the driver is caught off guard by the sudden opening of the hood.That would be an especially bad situation i...
BMW held on in December to top the U.S. luxury segment in 2015 for its fourth luxury-sales crown in five years.BMW won the U.S. luxury-auto sales crown even with a 17 percent drop in December deliveries, ahead of Lexus and Mercedes-Benz.BMW finished 2015 with luxury sales of 346,023 vehicles, followed by Lexus with 344,601 and Mercedes with 343,088. All three brands set annual sales records last year.The results exclude BMW’s MINI models and Daimler’s work trucks and Smart cars, which aren’t luxury vehicles.The German automakers have held the top spot in U.S. luxury sales sin...
American Honda has announced an expansion of its previous recall of faulty Takata air bags that may be at risk. Another 127,000 bad Takata airbag inflators to its growing recall. This latest round affects 2003 and 2004 CR-V crossovers. This is the first time that the 2004 CR-V has been included in the airbag recall.The Honda Models included in the recall are:-2003-2007 Honda Accord-2001-2005 Honda Civic-2002-2004 Honda CR-V (all 2002 and certain 2003 CR-V previously included)-2003 Honda Element-2002-2003 Honda Odyssey-2003 Honda PilotRepairs will be conducted free of charge, and Honda not...
