Category: Motor Age Articles
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Ford rethinks Level 3 autonomy
In 2016, Ford said it would largely pass over Level 3 autonomy, but now it’s embracing a more gradual approach to fully autonomous vehicles.
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Cadillac’s revived subscription program to rely on dealers
The lack of dealer involvement in the first program was a sore point for many Cadillac retailers.
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Thousands of Tesla customers still waiting for $35,000 Model 3
Thousands of would-be Tesla customers have waited almost three years to take delivery of the Model 3, a sedan they plopped down a $1,000 deposit for as early as March 2016.
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High-tech’s Israeli military connection
Defending the small nation of Israel fostered technologies for seeing objects in the dark, protecting assets from cyber attack and deploying AI. It just so happens that the world auto industry now needs some help in those fields.
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Subaru (finally) brings STI variant to U.S.
The high-performance STI S209 joins a Subaru lineup that is getting fresher, following redesigns of the Crosstrek, Forester and Ascent. But none of those models are quite like this one.
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It’s showtime for self-driving shuttles
A number of key global suppliers have moved the ball on self-driving shuttles. Commercial vehicles might be an easier and more receptive starting point for the technologies.
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Tesla’s bears and bulls duke it out on Wall Street
The perpetual tug-of-war between Tesla’s true believers and skeptics took a new turn Friday after the electric-car maker sparked a sell-off with its plan to cut thousands of jobs.
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German engineering firm IAV pleads guilty in VW emissions scandal
A German engineering company co-owned by Volkswagen pleaded guilty to a felony count of conspiracy in federal court for its role in helping the German automaker develop the defeat device software needed to temporarily alter the performance of its first…
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Yazaki finds humans are essential, not obsolete, for the future
If an automaker executive asks when everything is going to be automated, he or she might be asking the wrong question.
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Michelin CEO clears hurdle on path to replace Ghosn at Renault
Michelin CEO Jean-Dominique Senard, a frontrunner to replace Carlos Ghosn atop Renault, has passed one of the tests required for the job: Support of the French state.