Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison
While Vasquez and Uber may find some closure in the plea deal, self-driving expert Bryant Walker Smith says the NTSB should revisit the Slack issue to...
Missing Sub Passengers Believed Dead After Debris Found From Likely Implosion
On Sunday, a 22-foot submersible called Titan went missing on a trip to explore the wreck of the Titanic. Five people were aboard. As the sub’s...
Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems
Schmidt says that Tesla has long taken a “move fast and break things” approach to developing products, leading to concerns about whether its new releases are...
Tesla’s Magnet Mystery Shows Elon Musk Is Willing to Compromise
Meanwhile, demand is rising for magnets embedded in the tools of decarbonization, such as cars and wind turbines. Currently, 12 percent of rare earths go into EVs,...
Noah Raford Can Help You Prepare for a Not-So-Nice Future
Archival audioclip (Back to the Future): I’m from the future. Lauren Goode: Alright, I’m gonna ask the question that everyone’s wondering about: What is a futurist? Is this a...
Ford Jump-Starts Its Attempt to Revive Detroit
For almost two decades after it opened in 1913, Michigan’s Central Station was a major stop on the nation’s interurban rail network. Then the private car...
Paris Fell in Love With Escooters. Now It Might Ban Them
Atop my escooter, I am a human in a city of apes. With my back straight, I tower above my fellow road-users who are hunched over...
The Trans-American Race to Build Chargers for Electric Trucks
More than is typical even for technology entrepreneurs, Neha Palmer is in the business of predicting the future. TeraWatt Infrastructure, a startup unicorn based in San...
The Mystery Vehicle at the Heart of Tesla’s New Master Plan
Nearly four hours into Tesla’s marathon Investor Day, someone in the audience tried again to bring Elon Musk, the Tesla (and Twitter and SpaceX) CEO back...
The Mountain Village in the Path of India’s Electric Dreams
“The government is really obsessed with electrifying India. And that’s rooted in its net-zero targets. If you see the direction, that’s very, very clear,” he says....