Auto Tech News

Four Wheeled Battery Powered Bike Will Blow Minds

The four wheeled battery powered bike is known as E-Wazuma. It looks more rugged and cooler than the typical quad bike which normally seen on desert or other out of bound locations. E-Wazuma is manufactured by Lazareth, a boutique carmaker based in a French village just outside Geneva Switzerland. It offers a 40-horsepower electric motor installed inside each of its rear wheels and weigh at 361…

Battery Pack Becomes More Important than Electric Car Itself?

Cost and the range which electric car able to travel are still the challenges of electric cars. Automakers currently are figuring out how to put the biggest capacity battery packs with the lowest price into their electric cars to make them more attractive to the customers. This raises a question of whether battery supplier will become the lead actors than the automakers themselves. LG Chem is…

The Future of Transportation for Ford

Ford sees itself as a part of $2.3 trillion automotive industry where it has 6 percent market share as well as $5.4 trillion transportation market. The company plans to offer its vehicle not only as a hardware which moves a person from A to B, but more as a platform for delivery services. On top of that, the company will offer an overall customer experience which includes autonomous driving,…

Congress Needs to Consider Connected cars as a Multi Trillion Market

Connected cars found on public roads are only possible if there is support by the government. Apart from the technology which is currently built by automakers and technology companies, road infrastructure which is able to support the technology is also essential in making it a reality. That is why congress needs to think of it as a trillion dollar market. The idea of connected cars is for cars to…

Researchers Found Lasers Used in Self Driving Cars Could Impose a Potential Threat

Lasers are used in Lidar system which is used in self driving cars to identify objects including bikers, buildings and other cars. However, lasers can also be used to trick the autonomous car system into seeing things that are not actually there resulting in it making poor driving decisions. Lidar system is normally installed on top of the car which spins in all direction whenever the car moves…

A Researcher Team from University of Nevada Completed 1500 miles Mexican Trek Hand-Free Using a Special High-Technology Volkswagen

A team of researchers led by Raul Rojas, a professor at University of Nevada, Reno, had completed a 1500 miles journey from Nogales to Mexico City in a special high-tech 2010 Volkswagen Passat station wagon named Autonomos. The self driving car was sent from Berlin, where it has approved to be tested on public roads since 2011. The team of researchers consisted of two researchers from Freie…

Local Delivery Self Driving Robot to Deliver Your Parcel at Your Door Step in the Future

Drones are planned to be used to deliver things in the future. However, there are a lot of things need to be arranged before they are able to do so. One of such examples is to “divide” the sky into a few layers to avoid the drones from being hit by aeroplanes or other drones. Starhip, a startup technology company, is developing a self driving robot which travels on the sidewalk to deliver your…

Google Patented a Way for its Self Driving Cars to Communicate to the Pedestrians

One of the challenges that driverless cars faced is mostly happened during the four-way intersections. As normally, it would take a human driver some aggressive action to drive the car pass through four-way intersections, if not, he could be stuck in the same location for a long time before he could move. However, how do we do it by using self driving car? Some scenarios that might can happen is…

Samsung Plans to Make Older Cars able to behave like Connected Cars

There are a lot of changes happening in automobile industry and one of them is about having connected cars concept. Connected cars concept is a concept whereby cars will be able to communicate with each others through a network with the help of technology in real time. Therefore, whatever one car experience, it can be shared to all the other cars so that other cars able to learn about it and make…

Michigan Approved $3 Million Grant to Fund Driverless Car Testing Facility

Michigan Economic Development Corporation(MEDC) has granted $3 million funding to American Center for Mobility(ACM) to convert the factory which formerly used by General Motors(GM) into a self-driving vehicle testing facility. The factory has been closed since 2010. Autonomous cars claim to be able to reduce car accidents as well as making commuting more productive as the drivers will be able to…

Nexar Mobile Apps Able to Understand the Road Situation Surround It

Nexar was founded by Eran Shir and Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz last year in Tel Aviv. Since then, they have managed to raise $4 million fund from Aleph Venture Capital and Slow Ventures. The company has developed a new free mobile phone apps which currently available in iPhone with the same name, Nexar. Nexar is designed to use computer vision to understand the road situation surround it. When mounted…

Google Sees United Kingdom as a Key Market for its Autonomous Cars

In documents obtained by Telegraph which made available under the Freedom of Information Act showed that Google has held five face-to-face meetings with Department for Transport (DfT) in the last two years to talk about autonomous cars. Some part of the documents as been redacted to protect commercial interest. Google is currently testing its autonomous cars on California roads with a total of 1m…

Where will Autonomous Cars Taking Us in the Future?

Autonomous cars are inevitable in the automotive industry. Most of the automakers claim that they are able to launch autonomous cars in 2020, Tesla, confident that the company can do it earlier, in 2018. So, what is exactly autonomous car and what makes it so special? Autonomous cars are divided to five types: Level 0: It is the type of cars which are bought before 2011 whereby drivers need to be…

Driverless Taxi Could be Available Earlier in Singapore

Driverless cars could be released in the market as early as 2020 and the National League of Cities expected that these cars will be a common mode of transportation by 2030. However, driverless cars could be released earlier in Singapore as driverless taxi cabs. NuTonomy is a driverless car start-up which started three years ago at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The company has…

Honda and Volvo Decide to go All-electric or Plug-in Hybrid Car Models

Honda and Volvo made announcement on the same day but at two different locations that the two companies are going for all-electric and plug-in hybrid car version for their latest car model. And no, they are not going to work together to build the next car models. Honda plans to have plug-in hybrids and fuel cells to account for two-thirds of its total sales by 2030. Its Clarity line which runs on…

Volvo Testing Autonomous Cars with Regular Road Drivers Starting Next Year

Autonomous cars are the future of automotive industry. That is the reason why automakers and technology companies are competing to launch their own version of autonomous cars. Aligned with this objective, it is not surprising that Volvo is coming with its own version of autonomous car and the company is currently planning to allow a regular road driver to test the system on public road starting…

More Restrictions Added to Tesla Autopilot Feature in response to Videos Uploaded by People Using it Dangerously

Videos uploaded on Youtube showing people doing stunts with Tesla Autopilot feature on private roads which could cause harm to them and the people surround them. In regards to this, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk said that additional constraints will be added to the feature at the earnings call with investors’ event. It seems that people have been testing the limit of Autopilot feature in Tesla’s car…