by Randall McAdory | Aug 14, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, Suppliers, Volkswagen
In an interview with Automotive News Europe (subscription required), the head of Bosch Mobility Solutions, Stefan Hartung, discusses a whole range of auto industry issues related to electrification, fuel cells, the internal combustion engine, and autonomous vehicle...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 13, 2019 | Apple
It seems as though Apple is increasing the pace of development of some type of self-driving vehicle, what supposedly is being referred to as Project Titan internally at Apple. Earlier this year, Apple released a white paper vaguely describing the company’s...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 10, 2019 | Elon Musk, Ford
In a CNN interview last week Ford CEO, Jim Hackett, mentioned that his company drove the biggest industrial disruption of the 20th century – more significant than the disruption being driven today by Elon Musk with Tesla. In response to a recent statement by...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 4, 2019 | GM Cruise Automation
In a July 24 blog post, Cruise CEO, Dan Ammann announced more detailed information about Cruise Automation in San Francisco. Part of that announcement involved delaying the deployment of an autonomous service by the end of 2019. According the Ammann, the next steps...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 4, 2019 | GM Cruise Automation, Tesla, Waymo
Morgan Stanley’s automotive analyst, Adam Jonas, believes that investors are not recognizing the value of Tesla’s autonomous vehicle technology. GM’s Cruise Automation and Waymo seem to get healthy valuations from Wall Street according Jonas. But it’s Tesla that...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 3, 2019 | Waymo
In December 2018, Waymo launched its self-driving car service, Waymo One, in metro Phoenix. Might this have been the word’s first autonomous ride-hailing business? Possibly. According to Larry Burns, author of Autonomy, the genesis of Waymo One goes back many years...
