Driverless cars were first introduced in San Francisco in 2014 with a mandatory human “safety driver” on board. A driverless taxi slows down on a dark San Francisco street and is quickly surrounded by a group of masked figures. One of them places a traffic cone on the hood of the car. Its hazard lights…
NHTSA enforcement official Cem Hatipoglu told the hearing that while the odds for a rupture may not be high, the consequences are “severe and potentially deadly.” U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officials on Thursday told a public hearing the government should require the recall of 52 million air bag inflators produced by auto…
GTA Semiconductor has been backed by state-owned venture capital firms like Shanghai-based Spinnotec, which first announced the USD 1.8 billion fund-raising round on Monday, without specifying the entities involved. Chinese auto chipmaker GTA Semiconductor recently completed a largely state-funded financing round worth over USD 1.8 billion, state-backed Securities Times reported on Wednesday, with the move…
Based on the plans for procurement of new BS-VI Diesel/CNG buses/EVs by the respective NCR states and the exercise conducted by them for relocation of older Diesel buses (BS-IV and below) to areas other than NCR. The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) has instructed the State Governments of Haryana,…
On a muggy evening in July on the island of Príncipe, part of a volcanic archipelago 200 miles off the West African mainland, 11,000 mosquitoes dusted in fluorescent green powder flew together into the heavy equatorial air, tiny volunteers in the service of science. Over the next 10 nights, another group of volunteers, human ones,…
The Punan people of the island of Borneo were once rumored to have tails, so elusive did they seem to their neighbors in the 19th century. Unlike the Indigenous farmers, who lived in long houses, the Punan roamed the island’s northern rainforest in family groups, hunting bearded pigs, harvesting starchy plants and gathering forest products…
A visiting researcher at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center was startled when he read the warning from the Food and Drug Administration about a product that had been used in spine surgeries at the esteemed Manhattan hospital. The fluid, derived from umbilical cord blood, was not approved for such procedures, the agency cautioned, and its Idaho…
Nissan has revealed the third of four advanced EV concepts headed for a debut at the Tokyo auto show later this month. Called the Hyper Tourer Concept, it fits in alongside the Hyper Urban and Hyper Adventure concepts. Put simply, it reconceives the minivan, assuming a future in which autonomous-driving technologies will allow people to…
MIAMI and BLENHEIM, ONTARIO (Oct. 12, 2023) – Sotheby’s Motorsport, the new joint venture between the automotive lifestyle ecosystem duPont REGISTRY Group and luxury auto auction house RM Sotheby’s, today announced two new listings from legendary collector Barry Skolnick’s The Ikonick Collection. The brainchild of Skolnick, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, Ikonick is home to some…
In October, NIO global electric car deliveries increased by almost 60 percent year-over-year to 16,074, which is a small improvement over September (15,641). However, the numbers still appear too low to make the business profitable, as NIO’s losses are estimated at around $35,000 per car. A real sales breakthrough would be needed for NIO to…
