Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. reader comments 93 Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each… Read More »
Enlarge / Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 5, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson / Getty Images reader comments 97 CDK Global touts itself as an all-in-one software-as-a-service solution that is “trusted by nearly 15,000 dealer locations.” One connection, over an always-on VPN to CDK’s… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 191 One of the major data brokers engaged in the deeply alienating practice of selling detailed driver behavior data to insurers has shut down that business. Verisk, which had collected data from cars made by General Motors, Honda, and Hyundai, has stopped receiving that data, according to The Record, a news… Read More »
Enlarge / A pit stop during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in early March evokes how the team’s manager was feeling when looking at the Excel sheet that managed the car’s build components. ALI HAIDER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 99 There’s a new boss at a storied 47-year-old Formula 1 team, and he’s… Read More »
Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device https://flipperzero.one/ reader comments 63 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1 in his new crackdown on car theft: the Flipper Zero, a $200 piece of open source hardware used to capture, analyze and interact with simple radio communications. On Thursday, the Innovation, Science… Read More »
Enlarge / The Tesla Optimus Gen 2 robot. Tesla | Benj Edwards reader comments 164 On Tuesday, Tesla released a demo video showing the latest version of its prototype humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2. Over one year after Tesla’s first public Optimus robot demonstration, which showcased shaky robots that waved and slumped over, things have… Read More »
Jonathan Gitlin reader comments 35 with Before last week, owners of certain Mazda vehicles who also had a Home Assistant setup could create some handy connections for their car. Enlarge / A glimpse at some of Home Assistant’s Mazda data potential, before it was removed. One CX60 driver had a charger that would only power… Read More »
reader comments 74 with Toyota’s 14 Japanese factories all shut down for about two days last week due to a production order system malfunction caused by a lack of disk space, the company announced today. According to Toyota, its Japanese factories and their 28 assembly lines were halted due to “some multiple servers that process… Read More »
Enlarge / The 1982 TV series Knight Rider featured a car called KITT that a character played by David Hasselhoff (pictured) could talk to. Getty Images reader comments 54 with Share this story In the 1982 TV series Knight Rider, the main character can have a full conversation with his futuristic car. Once science fiction,… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 115 with 0 posters participating Share this story If you purchased a new car in the past few years, chances are good that it contains at least one embedded modem, which it uses to offer some connected services. The benefits, we’ve been told, are numerous and include convenience… Read More »