Information Technology

Partnership forms in the parking lot

Traffic data supplier Inrix has agreed to provide data for the mapping app Waze that will help drivers find a parking spot more quickly. The partnership pairs Inrix with Waze's owner, Google, a company that it once deemed a competitor to its vision for in-car services.

Intel exec: In-vehicle content delivery to be $5 billion industry

In-vehicle content delivery figures to be a major emerging business opportunity.

Autopilot upgrade aims beyond driver safety

Tesla Motors' most recent Autopilot upgrade does a better job of reminding drivers that it doesn't put the car in self-driving mode and that it's actually more of a next-level cruise-control setting.

Expert sees $5 billion opportunity for in-car autonomous car content

The autonomous vehicle content delivery industry could be worth up to $5 billion, said Elliot Garbus, general manager of the transportation solutions division at Intel, at an event hosted by SAE International in suburban Detroit earlier this week.

Robot rides may force error-prone human motorists off the road

New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington this week could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driver.

Shift Finance targets dealerships, private sales

Captive lender Shift Finance, and its parent, peer-to-peer used-car marketplace Shift Technologies Inc., have high ambitions.

Hyundai's great leap forward

After pressing pause on years of breakneck expansion to nail quality, restock the product pipeline and streamline production, Hyundai is on the offensive again.

Bill aims to protect kids in hot cars

Tesla was 'pushing the envelope in terms of safety,' Mobileye says

Mobileye broke ties with Tesla because the Silicon Valley firm was "pushing the envelope in terms of safety" with the design of its Autopilot driver-assistance system, Mobileye's chairman said.

Mobileye poised to seal more marquee deals for self-driving cars

Mobileye, a leading supplier of collision-avoidance car sensor systems, expects to seal its second alliance with a leading carmaker for self-driving vehicles in the next few months, the company's chairman said today.

Robot-car ethics need urgent societal review, Bill Ford says

The great-grandson of Henry Ford called on the auto industry and public institutions to address ethical issues emerging in a world where robot cars will make life-and-death decisions in roadway crashes -- and to do it soon.

Silicon Valley online course to mint self-driving car engineers

Silicon Valley is creating a crash course in self-driving car technology to address a shortage of engineers with help from a startup in a different field: online education.