Remember the big recall of vehicles with Takata airbags are few years ago that involved millions of vehicles - and the problems finding the current owners of those vehicles? Search for "Takata" on this site. Well, now there is a new issue with other airbags from another manufacturer that is causing concern. The Takata airbags had a manufacturing quality issue with bags made … [Read more...]
Self Driving Trucks
In the last few weeks Motoring Weekly has introduced two companies who are working in the background of autonomous vehicles: drive.ai and Nauto. Both are definitely not household names like Tesla or Uber, even Waymo is starting to be more well known globally and General Motors has its Cruise Automation division making some noise. Now it is time to introduce you to two more … [Read more...]
Nauto
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...]
