Second Quarter Automaker Profit Reports ain’t Pretty and other Auto Tech News
Boy, when it rains, it pours for the auto industry. Lots of bad news came out this week. In Alphabetical Order, here is what we know so far: Aston Martin—even the likes of 007 James Bond might not be able to salvage this ailing British automaker. Ford—Second quarter profit dropped 86 percent worldwide as restructuring […]
A Long, Long Away to go for Driverless Car and other Auto Tech News
The New York Times posted an article this week entitled: Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars are ‘Way in the Future.” Indeed they are…something I’ve been saying ever since I started writing about the car of the future and auto tech. Ford’s CEO Jim Hackett said in April, “We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles.” The […]
Wi-Fi vs. 5G, Battery in the Cloud, a Wheel that Does Everything and Hydrogen Flying Cars
So much news in the Auto Tech Watch, we barely have time to write it all down. Here is the most recent score card on partnerships and hook ups in the Car of the Future Space from the past two weeks. BMW and Daimler are teaming up to develop driverless and electric cars. Volkswagen and […]
Car Sickness is a Thing with Driverless Cars
I admit it I suffer from motion sickness, especially when it is hot out, and the sun hurts my eyes. Reading sometime will do it. Sometimes, this happens in a car, definitely happens in a boat, and I don’t think I will ever be able to use a VR headset, unfortunately. In a car, I […]
So Much Auto Tech News—So Little Time April 28, 2019 Edition
Auto Technology seems to be moving at the speed of light and then sometimes it isn’t. Here are a few insights from the past several weeks in the world of Auto Tech. Satellite Cars An opinion piece from Satellite Today suggests that connecting driverless cars is a bit more complicated than first realized. The author […]
The GPS Granny Nanny
America is slowing down. How long before it stops entirely? Literally stops? A reader who is a commercial driver wrote to tell me about how his work vehicle is monitored and controlled via the safety tech that is coming soon to your garage and may already be there, just waiting to be fully enabled. His […]
NMA Principle Number 7: Motorists’ rights that keep pace with technological advances
The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are working towards […]
Stevie Behind the Wheel
I recently test drove a new car with an autopilot system. Turn on the cruise control and the car not only maintains whatever speed you set, it also steers itself through curves and keeps the car from wandering out of its lane. You are supposed to keep your hands on the wheel, of course. But […]
Vision Zero Invasion of the Car Itself: NMA E-Newsletter #532
In three years, all new cars and light-trucks purchased in EU countries will be required to include standard price-increasing features that will change how motorists drive. Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection voted in February to approve a range of new vehicle safety standards initially proposed by the European […]
Uber Court Decision, Algorithmic Bias, and the Union of Glass and Metal
Uber Court Decision This past week, Yavapai County, Arizona Judge Sheila Sullivan Polk declared that Uber has no criminal liability for the death of Tempe pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in March 2018. Herzberg was the first known pedestrian fatality of a driverless car. Walking her bike across a dark street outside of a crosswalk, Herzberg was […]