Tag Archives: Cars

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

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: Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by… »

Single point of software failure could hamstring 15K car dealerships for days

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: Single point of software failure could hamstring 15K car dealerships… »

One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

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: One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data… »

Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts

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: Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to… »

Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in crackdown on car theft

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: Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in crackdown… »

Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in demo video

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: Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in… »

Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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: Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool »

Toyota’s Japanese production was halted due to insufficient disk space

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: Toyota’s Japanese production was halted due to insufficient disk space »

GM plans to let you talk to your car with ChatGPT, Knight Rider-style

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: GM plans to let you talk to your car with… »

Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry

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: Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry »