Google Autonomous Car

  • 'Revenge of the Electric Car' premiere: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on red carpet

    We take a deep look into two phenomenon: new technology in the Nissan Leaf's 30-kwh battery, and the war of words online surrounding Tesla and its CEO. A hydrogen shortage strands fuel-cell drivers in Los Angeles, and a new study shows sales of electric cars surge when more models are available. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Nissan uses a new cell structure and new battery pack design for the 2018 Nissan Leaf. We lay out the details. If you build them, they will come. A new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation, the folks who helped uncover Volkswagen's...

  • Waymo self-driving prototype
    Waymo purchase of Chrysler Pacifica Hybrids may limit consumer access to federal rebate

    Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet, put in an order for 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans last week to put into test fleets around the country. Riders will be able to summon the vans as taxis and be whisked to their destination complete with a "driver" who...

  • Google Self-Driving Car Prototype
    Google's Electric, Autonomous Test Car Looks Happy, Has No Steering Wheel

    This is probably not the car you'll be whisked around cities in, in the future. Which is either a good or bad thing, depending on how much you like cars that look like koala bears on a substance recently legalized in Colorado. But it is Google's latest, dedicated test vehicle for its autonomous car...

  • Google's Self-Driving Toyota Prius
    Self-Driving Tesla Electric Cars Coming, Courtesy Of Google?

    Love or hate Tesla Motors (NSDQ:TSLA) and its CEO Elon Musk, it's hard to deny that he's ahead of the curve when it comes to developing new cars. So when Musk says self-driving or autonomous technology is the next logical step in the evolution of the car, you take notice. According to Bloomberg...

  • 2013 Lexus RX 450h road test, Catskill Mountains, NY, July 2012
    Google Adds Lexus RX450h To Self-Driving Fleet, Safer Than Drivers

    After more than 300,000 miles of testing, Google’s automated self-driving Toyota Priuses have proven that self-driving cars have a future. Now Google is adding another hybrid car to its self-driving fleet: the 2012 Lexus RX450h luxury crossover SUV. “To provide the best experience we...

  • Blind driver Steve Mahan in Google's Self-Driving Toyota Prius, March 2012
    Blind Man Drives Prius, With A Little Help From Google (Video)

    Steve Mahan got into a Toyota Prius hybrid, drove to the dry cleaner's, picked up some clothes he'd left to be cleaned, and drove home. The trip was about a mile and a half. Steve Mahan is legally blind. He's lost 95 percent of his vision. He did it, though, with a little help from Google. The car...

  • Google-liveried 2012 Mitsubishi i

    Just before the holidays at the end of last year, Google welcomed the first 2012 Ford Focus Electric to roll off the production lines into its ever-expanding G Fleet of plug-in and hybrid cars. Google’s G Fleet now includes the 2012 Nissan Leaf, 2012 Chevrolet Volt, and various Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids, not to mention pre-production 2012 Honda Fit EVs. But why does Google seem to get electric cars well before anyone else? And just what exactly is a software company doing testing electric cars for the auto industry? However unfair it may seem, Google’s fleet of plug-in vehicles...

  • Google autonomous Toyota Prius test vehicle
    How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

    Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot cars as it raced around a closed course. Google's fleet of robotic Toyota...

  • China's National University of Defense Technology sent a robot-controlled car on a 216-mile trip
    China Builds And Tests Its Own Robot Car

    The select global fleet of self-driving cars has a new Chinese addition, and the developers claim the intellectual property behind it was created entirely at a Chinese university. After gaining early publicity five years ago, the robot-driven vehicle made the trip between the interior Chinese...

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