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Waymo CEO Blasts Tesla's Self-Driving Tech
Car Talk Once again, extremely niche trash talk is being exchanged in the world of self-driving cars. John Krafcik, the CEO of the Google-affiliated self-driving car company Waymo, told Germany's...
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Jaguar Says All Its Cars Will Be Electric in Just Four Years
Big Shift British Automaker Jaguar Land Rover Limited announced on Monday that it's making an ambitious — and speedy — transition away from gas-burning cars to go almost entirely electric in the...
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NASA Is Testing an All-Electric Airplane
Ground Control NASA is gearing up to begin tests on the X-57 Maxwell, the space agency's first aircraft to be powered entirely by electricity. For now, the X-57 will remain safely grounded while NASA...
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Skate On-Road And Off With The Faboard All-Terrain Electric Skateboard
One of the biggest modern challenges is how we get where we need to go. Climate change, access to transit, and types of transit will be part of this discussion as we electrify and slim down our...
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New Battery Tech Could Finally Make Flying Taxis Economically Feasible
Becoming Realistic Flying taxis, more technically known as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, might actually — finally — become a feasible technology thanks to a new development...
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Elon Musk Plays Cyberpunk 2077 on Tesla's In-Car Console
Grand Reveal Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally made good on a big promise he'd made at the beginning of the year: that the Tesla Model S Plaid would be able to play the notoriously graphics-intensive game...
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Car With Pop-Out Wings Aces Test Flight
Roll Out! A flying car prototype just completed a 35-minute test flight, traveling the roughly 50 miles between the airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia. The AirCar, as it's called, takes its...
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Uber Glitch Makes Drivers Pay for Their own Rides
Wrong Way! Uber's business model, in its most absolutely distilled form, is simple: Car owners can sign up to be algorithmically paired with passengers who need to get across town and, in exchange for...
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Driverless Car Startup Actually Uses Remote Controls
Technically True A startup called Halo has a bold plan to eradicate the headaches of finding a parking spot — with tech that lets customers drive cars that can then steer themselves back home after the...
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NYC Just Shut Down a Tesla Taxi Fleet
Grounded Fleet New York City regulators stepped in to quash a planned fleet of Tesla taxis in the city, and the decision is spawning backlash. The electric scooter startup Revel had planned to launch a...
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Nikola's Fake Hydrogen Truck Was Actually Plugged In During Demo, According...
One-Way Trip Nikola became the laughingstock of the automotive world last year when it emerged that it had rolled its (purportedly) hydrogen-electric semi truck down a hill in a high-profile demo...
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New Law Would Make Every New Car Verify That You're Sober
Engine Lock In the near future, you may need to prove to your car that you're sober before you're allowed to take the wheel. Buried on page 1,066 of the newest version of the infrastructure bill...
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Self-Driving Bus Hits Pedestrian at Tokyo Olympic Village
Share the Road On Thursday afternoon, one of the self-driving shuttle buses operating at the Tokyo Olympic village crashed into a Paralympian while they were crossing the street. The bus drove into...
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World's Largest Aircraft Mocked for Looking Like Giant Butt
NSFW Behold, the world's largest aircraft: a gigantic airship called the Airlander 10 that, when viewed from a certain angle, looks a whole lot like a ginormous — and possibly, uh, plugged — butt. The...
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Startup Says Anyone New Jetpack Is So Simple That Anyone Can Fly It
Just Add Jets Engineers in England say they've developed a jetpack so simple that anyone can safely fly it with minimal training. Maverick Aviation says the jetpack can travel up to 30mph, according...
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Driver Claims Tesla Locked Up in Middle of Six-Lane Highway
Close Call A bizarre failure brought a Tesla to a complete stop in the middle of traffic, according to the driver's account of the incident. Alan "Pooch" Puccinelli, owner of 3D printing supply company...
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Fire Engulfs Cargo Ship Carrying Thousands of Luxury Cars
Coming Up Aces A giant cargo ship carrying luxury cars including numerous Porches is now adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, burning after its crew evacuated, according to the Associated Press, which reports...
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Listen to the Moment a Passenger Lands a Plane During Emergency
Challenge Accepted Cue the "Mission Impossible" theme because a guy with absolutely no flight experience just landed a small plane after the pilot was incapacitated earlier this week. The man was...
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We're Absolutely Fascinated by These Glow-in-the-Dark Lane Markings
Light Itself Images of glow-in-the-dark lane markings have gone viral this month, accumulating nearly 100,000 shares on Facebook, according to News.com.au — and they’re fascinating to look at. The...
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Bizarre Shoe Attachments Claim to Make You Walk Way Faster
Moonwalkers A company founded by a team of Carnegie Mellon robotic engineers called Shift Robotics claims its Moonwalkers, a dorky-looking pair of shoe attachments, will increase your walking speed by...
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