Battery Day 2020: The Many Electrifying Promises of Tesla
Musk announced a $25,000 Tesla, six times more powerful cells, and an all-new Model S Plaid on its ‘Battery Day’ event
Tesla: Million Mile Battery to put Electric Vehicles ahead in the Automotive Race
Silicon Valley automaker gears up to introduce exclusive low-cost automotive batteries built to last for a million miles of use
How safe should we expect self-driving cars to be?
Conrad Duncan, Journalist Are automated and autonomous automobiles ready to be trusted? The safety of self-driving cars is back in the spotlight after two recent accidents with Uber and Tesla vehicles. In the first instance, Elaine Herzberg became the first known pedestrian to be killed by an ‘autonomous vehicle’ when she was struck by an Uber Volvo XC90 on March 18. In the second, an investigation into a Tesla Model…
Self-Driving cars in 2018, whats the destination?
Where will self-driving cars take us this year? We are told that self-driving cars are just around the corner, how far off is the automotive revolution?
Lyft and Drive.ai’s new partnership focuses on the human, not the car
In its latest self-driving tech pair-up, Lyft is partnering with Drive.ai. This time however, it’s focusing on the user rather than the mechanics.
Will Tesla’s Model 3 take electric cars into the mainstream?
Tesla’s new Model 3 has been hailed as “the car of the future”, but will the first affordable Tesla car succeed in taking electric vehicles mainstream?
Automated Vehicles and Public Perception
Lara Williams, Editor-at-large It’s becoming increasingly obvious that very soon fully-automated vehicles will be hitting the UK’s roads, but will other drivers and pedestrians accept them? Driverless vehicles will be the biggest change to transport since we switched from horse & cart to motorised cars. With this disruption comes problems, not only in getting the technology right, but in how we accept them into our daily lives. Will we trust…
Trust and the Autonomous Car
The latest Audi A8 model, due to be unveiled soon, will be the first commercialised car capable of Level 3 automated driving, overtaking the likes of Tesla’s Level 2 “Autopilot” system.