People keep putting fake walls in front of Teslas

Someone has responded to YouTuber Mark Rober’s Tesla fake wall test with a video that also tries to address the question of whether the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features would detect a Wile E. Coyote-style road obstruction in the real...

March 22, 2025

The AI-Driven Journey: Navigating the Future of Driverless Cars

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The AI-Driven Journey: Navigating the Future of Driverless Cars

The Role of AI in Shaping the Future of Autonomous Vehicles AI has, in recent decades, transformed how things are done globally across industries. But the most exciting use of this technology might just be an application within the autonomous...

October 22, 2024

Vay secures €34M to bring remote-controlled cars to the streets of Europe

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Vay secures €34M to bring remote-controlled cars to the streets of Europe

German “teledriving” startup Vay has secured €34mn from the European Investment Bank (EIB). In January, Vay launched a commercial remote-controlled car service in Las Vegas. Now it wants to roll out the technology on its home turf. In 2023, the...

October 17, 2024

This prototype turns your car’s windshield into a giant AR display

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This prototype turns your car’s windshield into a giant AR display

Car infotainment systems are getting ever bigger, but a startup’s new prototype takes things further than even something like Ford’s pillar-to-pillar touchscreen — by turning your windshield into a full-color 3D heads-up display. Distance Technologies, established by the co-founders of...

June 25, 2024

Ford looks to future EV breakthroughs — and smaller cars — to staunch the bleeding

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Ford looks to future EV breakthroughs — and smaller cars — to staunch the bleeding

Ford is the No. 2 seller of electric vehicles in the US. It’s very proud of that fact, but the amount of cash it had to burn to get there is enough to make you wonder whether it can keep...

April 25, 2024

‘Airbnb for cars’ platform SnappCar changes hands in bid for ‘further growth’

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‘Airbnb for cars’ platform SnappCar changes hands in bid for ‘further growth’

Dutch car-sharing platform SnappCar, which claims to be the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, has been fully acquired by AutoBinck Group — a shareholder in the scaleup since its founding in 2011. The ownership change also sees the...

April 24, 2024

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TNW Podcast: Flying cars and invisibility shields; Svilen Rangelov on drones and Dronamics

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode,...

April 4, 2024

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Formula E world champion reveals how race cars accelerate EV tech

António Félix da Costa is an extremely fast worker. The motorsports star has barely caught his breath since speeding at 250 km/h per hour into sixth place at a race in Sao Paulo, but he’s already back behind another wheel...

March 29, 2024

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Formula E world champion reveals how race cars accelerate EV tech

March 29, 2024

Flying cars edge towards takeoff after Chinese production deal

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Flying cars edge towards takeoff after Chinese production deal

A flying car that’s certified for aviation just took another big step towards commercialisation. The Aircar’s creator, KleinVision, today announced the sale of a “groundbreaking” license to manufacture the vehicle. The deal gives China’s Hebei Jianxin Flying Car Technology Co...

March 28, 2024