The California Department of Motor Vehicles is investigating A self-driving Cruise car is said to have almost hit a 7-year-old boy who, with his family, had the right of way as they properly crossed a street in San Francisco last year. NBC News quotes Sascha Retailleau, boy’s father, as saying the car “was fully stopped,…
A crowd surrounded a driverless Waymo car and set it alight in San Francisco on Saturday evening, 10 February. Four videos posted to Twitter by a bystander show the incident in the city’s Chinatown district. One shows people smashing windows with skateboards while the crowd shouts and cheers; the other shows people standing back from…
by Sascha Klapper, S&P Global Mobility Research & Analysis Manager The automotive lighting industry always excites me these days. It has evolved from a simple car lamp provider to a confident and very dynamic industry that is innovative and design driven. It is not just about seeing and being seen better; vehicle lighting is going…
The new Kuga has an eyecatching full-width LED light bar framing the grille, and dynamic pixel LED headlamps are available as an option—they use Valeo’s two-row 48-pixel ADB module, with more than 4,500 lumens in the high beam and a virtual dynamic bending light done by illuminating additional pixels of the kink row. The low…
Audi’s refreshed big Q7 SUV has all kinds of new lights. High-performance LED headlamps are standard equipment, with Matrix LEDs or HD Matrix LEDs + laser high beam booster available as options. They work with 24 LEDs and a high-power laser diode on each side of the car, buyers’ neighbours will know to be envious…
Smart’s #3 model has just been awarded five stars in the Euro NCAP tests. This latest model is equipped with a Valeo Smart Safety 360 system including sensors, detection systems, advanced functionalities, a smart front camera and radars. Valeo’s Smart Safety 360 (VSS 360) is a new turnkey ADAS that lets automakers offer safety and park…
Rimac will show a highly autonomous robotaxi early this year, and they plan for it to be in commercial operation by 2026. The Croatian company, maker of the 1,877-bhp Nevera EV and parent of Bugatti, are expanding into the mass-mobility market under the Project 3 Mobility moniker. Rimac have revealed only a few details of…
Tesla has been forced—again—to recall and fix cars that don’t meet applicable safety standards. This time, it’s because they failed to make every single one of their US-specification cars in accord with one of the easier-to-meet aspects of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.The noncompliance involves the brake system fault, ABS fault, and parking-brake-applied telltales.…
The new Lancia Ypsilon Edizione Limitata Cassina is quite a mouthful of a name for a car to be launched in Italy on 14 February. Many vehicles have had “Limited” somewhere in their trim line names, but Lancia really mean it: 1,906 numbered and certified units will be made. The collaboration between Lancia and Cassina introduces a…
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