April 5, 2023 Ford has announced that it is withdrawing its request for administrative approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to launch up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles without obligatory human controls such as steering wheels. more...
March 2, 2023 Ford Motor Company recently applied for a patent for a new technology that could allow cars to repossess themselves if their owners fail to make payments. The "Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle" technology more...
February 16, 2023 Hyundai and Kia are distributing free anti-theft software to over 8 million vehicles in order to combat viral car theft videos on social media platforms such as YouTube and TikTok. When a theft attempt is more...
January 19, 2023 According to a confession from Ashok Elluswamy, director of Autopilot software at Tesla; a 2016 video used by Tesla to advertise its self-driving technology was scripted to show functionality such as halting at a red more...
November 21, 2022 According to Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, the production of electric vehicles requires about 40% less manpower than the production of the same number of fossil vehicles. He explained that Ford is trying to build more...
November 7, 2022 Continental, a German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company, was hacked by the LockBit ransomware gang. The gang has also posted the company's name on its Tor Leak page, threatening to release allegedly stolen data if more...
November 1, 2022 Ford and Volkswagen are ending support for their joint autonomous driving robotaxi division, Argo AI, after investing $3.6 billion. Catherine Johnsmeyer, an Argo spokeswoman, announced the closure and said that some of the remaining employees more...
September 22, 2022 Electric vehicles (EV) are being touted as the messiah to save America's power grid after California passed a law banning the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles from 2035, allowing home lights to run on an more...
September 20, 2022 Uber, a ride-hailing service, said there was no evidence that users' personal information was exposed in a breach of its internal computer system discovered late Thursday. It also mentioned that it had returned all internal more...
August 24, 2022 Ford Motor has announced plans to cut 3,000 payroll and contract jobs, mainly in North America and India, as the company moves to develop software-driven electric vehicles. Ford's workforce primarily supports a traditional range of more...
