by Ben Schafer | Aug 16, 2016 | News
Could the development of an autonomous vehicle finally lead Apple to narrow the gap in research-and-development spending with Google? It looks like it, at least based on the companies’ latest quarterly filings, especially as execs at Alphabet — Google’s recently...
by Ben Schafer | Aug 8, 2016 | News
It’s a familiar experience for ride-hailing drivers: a group of passengers get picked up from a bar, and each one wants to go home to a different place. Or a guy needs to make a last-minute stop at the flower shop on the way to an anniversary dinner with his...
by Ben Schafer | Aug 1, 2016 | News
Uber is throwing in the towel in China, agreeing to be bought out by its biggest rival in the country, Didi Chuxing, in exchange for a 20 percent share in a company reorganized under the Didi banner. The deal, reported late Sunday, ends the ride-hailing giant’s...
by Ben Schafer | Jul 29, 2016 | News
Uber has come out with an online app designed to make it easier for companies and service providers to book rides for their customers and clients. UberCENTRAL offers a dashboard interface that allows users to book multiple rides for third parties. Through the...
by Ben Schafer | Jul 28, 2016 | News
When students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology return en masse in the fall they will likely be sharing campus roads and walkways with self-driving mini-cars. Ford Motor Company is partnering with the prestigious university to test what are essentially...
by Ben Schafer | Jul 27, 2016 | News
This week, the head of the company that has supplied image-recognition chips for Tesla’s autopilot system disclosed that the two were parting ways. While neither Mobileye nor Tesla pointed any fingers, it appears likely that Tesla pulled the plug — and that the fatal...