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Toyota has added a $400 million investment to its existing partnership with Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous-tech startup. Pony.ai got its start in 2016 and currently has robotaxi fleets testing and serving customers in California and China. Toyota earlier joined Ford and GM in a consortium with SAE International to discuss ways to ensure autonomous vehicles […] More
Mercedes-AMG has revealed the second generation of its GLA compact crossover, which offers more power and new performance-oriented technology. The U.S. will get the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLA45 with a turbocharged inline-four that makes 382 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque; Europe also gets a GLA45 S model making 415 hp. The 2021 GLA45 goes on […] More
MIT researchers are working on a way for self-driving cars to scan the ground below the road and localize themselves through that information. The new technology could help autonomous vehicles navigate in bad weather, conditions where cameras and lidar struggle. While the technology is not road ready yet, it could be an important piece of […] More
In a cell-phone video published by NBC News, a man is shown jumping into a canal and pulling a driver from a sinking Kia Soul. The man successfully rescued the driver, who had suffered a seizure, after cutting the seatbelt. In case you ever find yourself in a sinking car, here’s how to escape. Sometimes […] More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) met today in Washington, D.C., to rule on the 2018 crash of Walter Huang’s Tesla Model X in California. Huang’s car veered into a center divider in 2018 while Autopilot was enabled. He died from injuries sustained in the crash. In opening statements, the NTSB chairman called out Tesla […] More
We got a sneak peek inside the 2021 Ford Bronco interior, revealing a large touchscreen, terrain controls behind the gear selector, and six toggle switches above the rearview mirror. Those switches are intended to support things like additional exterior lighting and accessories. We’ll see every bit of the new Bronco in the coming weeks. Ford […] More
Honda is planning to sell parts for the S2000, covering model years 1999 through 2009, as well as parts for the S2000 20th-anniversary prototype. The catalog will be out in June, but before that Honda will take requests through social media with the hashtag #S2000PartsCatalog. Customers have from now until April 30 to tell Honda […] More
Ronald Askew via Subaru/Mercedes-BenzCar and Driver Wagons given a rugged treatment to make them more like SUVs are vastly outselling traditional-looking wagons in the U.S. market. As two examples, the Subaru Outback (pictured at left above) found 181,178 buyers in the U.S. in 2019, whereas the Mercedes-Benz E-class wagon (right) sold an estimated 8000 units. […] More
