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A Silicon Valley startup called “Otto” has just been bought by Uber, with the goal of putting a fleet of the self-driving trucks on the nation’s highways in as little as two years. At 55 miles an hour, with no one behind the wheel, Otto has tested its technology on closed roads. For test runs on the busy freeway, a safety driver sits behind the wheel, just in case. "We're living in an on-demand era where we all want to press a button and have something arrive as fast as possible. Well, there's a truck behind all of those products." said Lior Ron, cofoun...
Volkswagen has a lot to worry about with respect to its diesel-emissions cheating scandal. On the civil side, it’s already anticipating divvying out $15 billion to make right with regulators, states, and customers over hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles that contain a software-based cheat allowing them to emit many times the permissible amount of nitrogen oxide. While the settlement with U.S. regulatory authorities largely resolved VW's obligations to the federal government, the automaker also faces potential criminal charges relating to the use of emissions-cheating software i...
It's been revealed, that General Motors has payed money to its dealers for 7 years already. All these years more than $5 billion were offered to GM dealerships, under the EBE program. But now, that most of them have done some shiny makeovers, there's no need to make some extra, right? GM has decided to keep that spigot open for any of its Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC dealers who jump though the necessary hoops under the brand standards program called Essential Brand Elements. The cash will be an incentive for dealers to keep those stores modern with new video displays...
As it was revealed after, US markets didn't do much in Friday's trading session. Weakness in US retail sales is already being felt, from an economic perspective the retail sales data wasn't to healthy. Sales for the month of July were flat, against expectations of a 0.4% gain. Excluding car sales, retail spending dropped 0.3%. The US car market looks like is betting it will never get to the end of it. There are always reasons for “data-dependent” to hold off. That is the reason why stocks are trading at-all time highs, even while the economy limps along like ...
Hillary Clinton has made a distinction between her and Donald Trump, her rival for the U.S. president post. She has painted herself as the person who fights for income fairness and middle-class workers. The Democratic lady told to the crowd of 500 people at the Futuristic Tool and Engineering event that she plans to invest in infrastructure, offer new tax credits, encourage corporate profit-sharing and paid apprenticeships. She promised she will do wherever it takes to bring the U.S. auto companies back, which are investing outside of the country in order to avoid the huge taxes, by...
