In a series of articles about the quiet achievers of the new age of automotive use, here at Motoring Weekly, we have highlighted the work at drive.ai. Now we have another company to be aware of: Nauto. Nauto was founded in 2015 with a view to getting modern cars and drivers to be safer and they have given themselves a huge target: zero traffic accidents. What sets them apart … [Read more...]
drive.ai
We heard about this company whilst researching other small technology companies in the automotive space - and with the constant chatter about autonomous cars, here at Motoring Weekly, we felt that we should look at those companies that aren’t so well known today. Drive.ai was spawned from the Stanford University where the Artificial Intelligence Lab was developing systems. … [Read more...]
Ex Chrysler Dealers Sue US Government
Back in 2008/2009 during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), two of the Big Three were close to failure. General Motors recreated itself and left its bad debts with the older entity whilst Chrysler, having left the DaimlerChrysler group in 2007 was struggling with its new owners Cerebus Capital Management. The timing of that transaction probably saved Daimler Benz during the … [Read more...]
Jaguar Land Rover Wins Fight Against LandWind
One of the first articles we wrote after converting Motoring Weekly from a podcast into a written form was about the LandWind X7 and how it was a clone of the first series Range Rover Evoque. That was back in December 2014 and mistakenly called a Land Wing - it was still a pre-production model then. Now, over four years later, a Chinese Court has finally ruled that LandWind … [Read more...]
The Mazda Toyota Twins
Badge engineering is alive and well - in the US at least. Toyota have just released information on a new Yaris hatchback for this market and it is a Toyota by name only! In all other markets it is a Mazda 2. Toyota decided that it would not be building a new Yaris for the US market because it would cost too much to deliver a small city car to a country that loves its big … [Read more...]