By Joey Klender Posted on March 11, 2022 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday that it would no longer require fully autonomous vehicles to equip human control elements in its vehicles to meet crash standards. “Through the 2020s, an important part of USDOT’s safety mission will be to ensure safety standards keep
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Watch more full episodes on MotorTrend! http://bit.ly/2rn5FrP The Rubicon Trail is the most famous 22-mile off-road trail in the world, and over the years the 4x4s that have attempted it have only gotten better. But it wasn’t started with 4x4s on 40-inch tires and big engines. Rather, it was started with little Jeeps on tiny
FRANKFURT — Volkswagen Group doubled its operating profit in 2021 but warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impact on supply chains could hit business this year in unforeseen ways. Operating profit last year doubled to 19.3 billion euros ($21.1 billion) despite lower deliveries, VW said in a statement on Friday. Global vehicle sales
Google is launching a vehicle ads platform that will allow auto dealerships to place inventory ads within search results. The ad format will show a consumer searching for a particular model an ad for that vehicle with photos, price, mileage and location, Google said. The ads will display on top of a search results page
2:47 PM ET Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz suggested Formula One champions Mercedes were playing “typical” games in talking up the Italian team’s prospects ahead of the season starting in Bahrain next week. Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and new teammate George Russell pointed to Ferrari’s form in testing at Sakhir. “From what I can see, today
Police officers in both California and Nevada have both come to the rescue of Jeep drivers who managed to get their vehicles stuck in two very different areas. The first incident happened in early March when an officer with the California Highway Patrol – West Valley spotted a Jeep Renegade sitting at the top of
EV maker Rivian has hired a top executive from a major auto supplier as its next COO, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to get its troubled manufacturing operations back on track. Rivian has struggled to ramp up production, citing supply chain constraints such as a shortage of semiconductors. To help tackle
Within an hour of hearing about a fatal crash between a self-driving test vehicle and a pedestrian, Bastien Beauchamp started thinking about better ways for autonomous vehicles to communicate with vulnerable road users. “I saw that news, and I was really shocked,” said Beauchamp, a serial entrepreneur. “I thought, ‘This is the future, where you
Fg Trade | Istock | Getty Images If your three-year auto lease is coming to an end soon, be aware that your car may be worth far more than you realize. The 2022 average trade-in value for 2019 model-year vehicles is 33% higher ($7,208) than the predetermined residual value — a vehicle’s worth at the
Subaru on Friday announced that the current-generation Subaru WRX won’t get a higher-performance STI model for this generation. The reason? The company is examining how “future sports and performance cars should evolve to meet the needs of the changing marketplace and the regulations and requirements for greenhouse gasses (GHG), zero emissions vehicles (ZEV), and Corporate
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has officially changed a long-standing rule that is now creating a path for automakers to deliver self-driving vehicles without steering wheels or pedals. Safety regulations have forced automakers to deliver every passenger vehicle with several safety features – including steering wheels and pedals – in order to
Ferrari is best known for producing some of the finest V8 and V12 engines that the world has ever known and to some, we’re sure that the idea of a V6-powered Ferrari is akin to sacrilegious. However, with the new 296 GTB, the Italian car manufacturer appears to have got the V6 recipe just right.
Mercedes-Benz has about 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) of assets in Russia that could be at risk if Moscow decides to expropriate the property of foreign companies that leave the country over its invasion of Ukraine. The automaker said in its annual report on Friday that the prospect of expropriation presented a risk to the
10:24 AM ET Associated Press J.R. Hildebrand was named the oval driver for A.J. Foyt Racing on Friday and will make his season debut next week at Texas Motor Speedway. Hildebrand will share the No. 11 Chevrolet with Tatiana Calderon, the Colombian driver hired to race the street and road courses this year. Calderon, the
Dealers shouldn’t let a lack of sales experience on a resume stop them from hiring an otherwise qualified candidate, sales manager and Automotive News 40 Under 40 honoree Erikka Wells told NADA attendees. Not giving real consideration to applicants who are women and people of color is choking dealers’ ability to net a wider customer
Just weeks after starting to offer self-driving vehicle rides to the public in San Francisco, Cruise is preparing to quickly expand to other cities and other types of vehicles. “We get our early users to love the product and come back again and again,” Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said Thursday at the Morgan Stanley Technology,
In this article PCG’A F 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Ford Ford Motor will collaborate with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in California to evaluate the bidirectional charging capabilities of the electric F-150 Lightning to power homes and return energy to the power grid. Ford CEO Jim Farley and PG&E CEO Patti Poppe announced the plans
Lucid Motors, today posted the first of ten videos in its new YouTube series, Tech Talks. The California-based EV startup is using the series to explain how its technology is unique and in fact, industry-leading. Episode one premiered today with Lucid Motors’ CEO and CTO, Peter Rawlinson offering a quick lesson in energy before diving into the
The current Acura NSX may not have revolutionized the supercar industry in the same way that its predecessor did but it remains a very good car, as Doug DeMuro recently discovered when testing out the new Type S variant. The veteran car reviewer first tested the Acura NSX back in May 2017 and at the
Volvo Cars has begun the search for a new head of global commercial operations to replace Lex Kerssemakers, who will leave the post later this year. Kerssemakers, who has been with Volvo for 38 years, including 16 as a member of its executive management team, said it was time for him “to shift focus” in
4:05 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — In the space of Formula One’s two preseason tests, Mercedes has presented two very different versions of its new car. When the W13 left Barcelona after the first test it looked relatively conventional. When it emerged again in Bahrain for the second test it looked genuinely revolutionary. The changes,
A 36-year-old man has been arrested after leading police on a chase in a stolen BMW X6 near the Polish town of Wschowa. It is reported that the man stole the X6 from Germany and the police in Wschowa became interested in the car after noticing the foreign license plates and recognizing some oddities with
Rivian Automotive Inc. is slashing production targets for its electric vehicles, backing off on price hikes for some customers and posting huge financial losses. But the young automaker still has ambitious plans. In the short term, there’s not a lot the California EV startup can do to speed output of the R1T pickup, R1S SUV
WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Thursday issued final rules eliminating the need for automated vehicle manufacturers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards. Automakers and tech companies have faced significant hurdles to deploying automated driving system vehicles without human controls because of safety standards written decades ago that assume
In this article RIVN ZE594-CN R.J. Scaringe, Rivian’s CEO, introduces the world to his company’s R1T all-electric pickup and all-electric R1S SUV at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, November 27, 2018. Mike Blake | Reuters Electric vehicle maker Rivian plans to use new types of battery cells in its electric trucks,
Freiburger and Finnegan found a 440-powered 1971 Chrysler Newport eight-door airport car. This rare machine is missing parts of the floor and is rusted all over. So, of course, that means it’s time to take it on a road trip. #Roadkill #Chrysler #MotorTrend MotorTrend is the ultimate streaming destination for gearheads coupled with the latest
Acura on Thursday released more details on the 2023 Integra and opened reservations for the four-door hatchback. Deliveries are scheduled to start this spring. The production version preserves the styling of the Integra prototype unveiled in late 2021. Under the hood sits a 1.5-liter turbo-4 (the first turbocharged engine in an Integra) producing 200 hp
By Simon Alvarez Posted on March 10, 2022 Ukraine Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov recently confirmed that a second truckload of Starlink terminals has arrived in Ukraine. The shipment was confirmed by Elon Musk, who noted that SpaceX also sent power adapters for car cigarette lighters, solar and battery packs,
Lotus is on the precipice of a new generation of cars, having bid farewell to its old lineup. It’s now preparing a new SUV, of all things, after being bought by Geely, which could have some diehard fans of the old-school Lotus concerned. According to Carfection’s Henry Catchpole, though, one need not be too worried.
AvtoVAZ will partially resume operations at its Togliatti and Izhevsk plants from March 16 despite a persistent shortage of components, Russia’s biggest automaker said. AvtoVAZ says it has taken the decision because it wants to protect the incomes of its staff in Russia. The automaker, which is controlled by Renault, stopped its Togliatti and Izhevsk
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