Transportation
From self-driving cars to subways: how transportation — and the related policies — impacts our lives around the world.
The longtime PR pro is being replaced by her deputy Jill Hazelbaker.
Tesla made 75,000 cars last year. GM made 10 million. So why is Tesla worth more?
A conversation with Musk biographer Ashlee Vance about the SpaceX/Tesla entrepreneur.
The company further says that an injunction isn’t necessary because all the cars on the road are using Velodyne lidar.
A little less than two months in and yes, it’s already a saga.
Before the new round, Lyft was valued at $5.5 billion.
For the ride-sharing juggernaut, this is a “What kind of month has it been?” sort of month.
Kah Seng Tay will be heading up engineering at autonomous tech startup Drive.ai.
Uber says it doesn’t believe it has those files in its possession.
Mark Rosekind, the former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is now at secretive self-driving startup Zoox as its chief safety innovation officer.
Tesla delivered 25,000 cars in the first quarter while Ford’s sales dropped more than 7 percent in March.
With every defection, Uber and Google are feeding the fire of their own competition.
The company’s diversity is on par with the tech industry and that’s not great.
Tencent, a Chinese internet giant, is also an investor in Chinese ride-hail player Didi Chuxing.
The company suspended its testing of all autonomous vehicles on Saturday after one of its cars got into a collision with a human-driven car.
There are few details about the incident so far, but Uber says the car was in autonomous mode and no one involved was seriously hurt.
The company’s self-driving division is in a “mini civil war,” according to insiders.
The company might be looking to capitalize on the Trump administration.
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Uber did more trips last week in the U.S. than ever before.
Its self-driving car unit, Waymo, poached a government affairs guru from eBay.
McClendon is leaving the company after close to two years.
He is leaving after apparently deciding the current controversies are too much to handle.
President Donald Trump’s campaign spent more on Airbnb than any other sharing economy company and Clinton’s campaign spent more on Uber.
The capsule is bringing back 5,400 pounds of cargo and test samples from the International Space Station.
A first look at Uber’s progress.
The company is offering $250 million in common stock and $750 million in convertible notes.
Anthony Levandowski, who launched self-driving company Otto publicly in May, was consulting Uber’s self-driving arm weeks before that.
Think of your future car as a rolling computer.
The deal gives Intel control over a big auto supplier in the self-driving space.
It’s easy to forget how reliable Uber is these days.
Waymo filed sworn testimony that Uber’s head of self-driving, Anthony Levandowski, stole key files.
Here are the first speakers we’re announcing for the annual tech and media conference.
A handful of companies have popped up in the months after Uber and Lyft bowed out of Austin.
But the technology will still be used for things like promotions, testing new features and fraud prevention.
Gary Marcus joined Uber in December as part of the company’s acquisition of his AI startup Geometric Intelligence.
The Mountain View lab will focus on AI-based security and intelligent driving systems for cars.
Some dream names for the job include former Disney COO Tom Staggs and CVS’ Helena Foulkes.
Drivers have long had reason to prefer other services over Uber, but haven’t been able to abandon it entirely.
His departure is tinged by allegations made about him to those investigating the ride-hailing company’s loose culture.