Ford and its luxury brand Lincoln are enabling customers to access apps and services in their vehicles through a new integrated native experience. Drivers will also be able to do so with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the company said in a Monday (Jan. 22) press...
RXO, a provider of asset-light transportation solutions, has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered check-in system for trucks arriving at warehouses and distribution centers. This visual AI technology aims to simplify the check-in and security process by utilizing video to identify trucks and extract image and...
Car rental firm Hertz is selling 20,000 electric vehicles (EVs) from its U.S. fleet — amounting to one-third of its global fleet — and replacing them with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. It is doing so because EVs are more expensive than ICE vehicles to...
For autonomous vehicles (AVs), the road ahead stretches out a bit farther. On Thursday (Jan. 4), Mobileye, which makes self-driving technology — spanning cameras and chips and systems — posted preliminary results for the third quarter. The results pointed to what the company called “excess...
Mobility technology firm Continental and self-driving technology company Aurora Innovation have finalized the design of a scalable autonomous trucking system and plan to start production in 2027. Finalizing the design and architecture of the future fallback system and hardware of the Aurora Driver autonomous driving...
Hyperloop One, a transportation company that aimed to revolutionize transit with its high-speed tube-encased lines, is reportedly shutting down. The company is selling off its assets and laying off its remaining employees at the end of the year, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec. 21). This news comes...
The automotive industry in the United States is reportedly set to experience a slight increase in new car sales in 2024. Industry analysts’ projections indicate a year-over-year growth rate ranging from 1% to 4%, with an estimated 15.6 million to 16.1 million vehicles expected to...
Online food delivery marketplace Just Eat Takeaway.com is testing in-car applications that will let drivers use their car screen to place orders. The Amsterdam-based firm is collaborating with an unnamed car manufacturer and expects to launch the service in Europe in the first half of 2024, Bloomberg reported Wednesday...
Bird, the once high-flying electric scooter startup, has filed for bankruptcy. The Miami-based company announced its Chapter 11 filing two years after going public, one year after warning bankruptcy could be on the horizon and three months after being delisted from the New York Stock...
