Mustangs, Camaros and F-150s

If you’re shopping for a Mustang, you’re faced with a variety of choices, not simply in terms of the color or the wheels that you’re going to be applying to your ride, but in terms of which model you’re going to select.

Delphi and Autonomous Tech

Delphi Automotive plc has been deeply involved for many years in developing self-driving vehicle technologies.

Waymo to Begin Testing Next-Gen Autonomous Minivans This Month

Alphabet Inc. will begin on-road tests of its next-generation autonomous driving system on public streets in Arizona and California later this month, says John Krafcik, CEO of the Google holding company’s new Waymo unit.

Ford F-150 Pickup to Offer Diesel, Other Powertrain Updates

Ford Motor Co. took the wraps off the 2018 F-150 full-size pickup truck on Sunday ahead of this week’s Detroit auto show.

Toyota Applies AI to Friendly Concept

Toyota Motor Corp. says its Concept-i car uses artificial intelligence to learn and adapt to driver behaviors, and can communicate information through a mix of lights, sounds and haptic feedback. 

VW Gets U.S. Approval to Fix Some 4-Cylinder Diesels

Volkswagen AG has been given approval to begin a two-step fix for about 67,000 of its diesel-powered vehicles in the U.S. that were rigged to sidestep emission standards.

ZF, Nvidia Team Up on AI System for Self-Driving Vehicles

ZF Friedrichshafen AG is working with chipmaker Nvidia Corp. to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology for automated and autonomous driving systems for passenger cars, commercial trucks and industrial applications such as forklifts and other material handling devices.

Bosch Study Shows Benefits of Existing Tech

While the drive toward full autonomy for vehicles is seemingly picking up speed with announcements from companies with new LiDAR systems or the deployment of deep-learning AI systems in vehicles, and while Bosch is working hard in a number of areas to automate driving, here’s something that is striking that comes out of a study, “Connected Car Effect 2025,” that Bosch and the consulting firm Prognos performed.

Audi & NVIDIA Go Deeper

NVIDIA, the tech company that transformed powerful, compact computing with its graphical processing units (GPUs) that lead to systems-on-a-chip (SOC)*, and Audi, the car company that transformed what was the state of the art of automotive interiors (and which has been using NVIDIA tech in its vehicles for navigation displays, for example, which enhances the look of the interiors of its cars and crossovers), jointly announced last night at a keynote at CES 2017 that they’re going to be working together to advance artificial applications to address autonomous driving capabilities.

Hyundai Confirms Plans for New Fuel Cell Vehicle

Hyundai Motor Co. says it will launch an all-new fuel cell-powered crossover vehicle in 2018.