by aieg | Jan 23, 2018 | News
Michigan Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on Tuesday led a bipartisan effort urging congressional appropriators to include “robust funding” for the testing and development of self-driving vehicles in any government spending agreement for 2018. They are referring...
by aieg | Jan 17, 2018 | News
For safety advocates, the promise of expedited accident-prevention technology doesn’t justify relaxed standards. Two days after Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao discussed the federal strategy to regulate autonomous vehicles at the Detroit auto show, Joan...
by aieg | Dec 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
OH, THE UNTAINTED optimism of 2014. In the spring of that year, the good Swedes at Volvo introduced Drive Me, a program to get regular Josefs, Frejas, Joeys, and Fayes into autonomous vehicles. By 2017, Volvo executives promised, the company would distribute 100...
by aieg | Dec 28, 2017 | News
Battery makers must rethink their technology if predictions for a wave of self-driving vehicles pan out, according to one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery. In addition to focusing on making batteries more powerful to extend the driving range of single-owner...
by aieg | Dec 19, 2017 | News
Automakers with ambitious plans to roll out more than a hundred new battery-powered models in the next five years appear to be forgetting one little thing: Drivers aren’t yet buzzed about the new technology. Electric cars — which today comprise only 1 percent of...
