Transportation
From self-driving cars to subways: how transportation — and the related policies — impacts our lives around the world.
Uber has also hired a second law firm in addition to Covington and Burling to help with the volume of the investigation.
Kalanick responded to a video that surfaced today of him yelling at an Uber driver.
The driver asks why the CEO has “dropped the prices” on its UberBlack service.
As written, the laws restrict autonomous vehicle operation to automakers.
Embark launched out of stealth on Friday.
The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.
Krikorian joined Uber after more than five years at Twitter to head up the company’s Pittsburgh headquarters.
The two mainstays of Silicon Valley were seed investors in the ride-hail company.
How quickly can the car-hailing phenom clean up appalling allegations of sexism and sexual harassment? Not quickly enough.
The electric carmaker needs more production capacity.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made the announcement on the Q4 earnings call.
The well-known blogger and online publisher is an Uber director and part of an investigation into allegations of widespread sexism at the car-hailing company.
Could allegations of sexual harassment and sexism put the company’s future IPO prospects at risk?
Foxx and Recode Senior Editor Johana Bhuiyan talk about the future of self-driving technology and much more.
And that’s why Uber might beat Google and Apple.
Susan Fowler penned a devastating essay on her experience with sexism and sexual harassment at the ride-hailing service.
Travis Kalanick states the obvious: Sexual harassment is a fireable offense.
How Elon wants to beat flying cars.
There’s no one flying the aircraft.
The automaker will take a majority stake in Argo AI, founded by two top engineers from Google and Uber.
Brogan BamBrogan is back to take on his former company.
Luc Vincent, Lyft’s new vice president of engineering, is leaving Google after 12 years.
The DMV said Otto informed the agency that it was not operating its trucks autonomously in California.
As the New York Taxi Workers Alliance would have it, Uber = Trump.
Human drivers have to take over far less often.
The Northern Kentucky facility will eventually employ more than 2,000 people.
The company now says the ban is “unjust, wrong and against everything we stand for as a company.”
The former labor secretary will be steering the Department of Transportation at a crucial time for the tech and auto industries.
Daimler will use Uber’s platform to get consumers into their self-driving cars.
Uber’s decision to turn off surge pricing during a taxi union’s anti-Trump protest was just the last straw.
Recode’s Johana Bhuiyan demystifies the landscape of autonomous vehicles on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Waymo’s move to bring its hardware manufacturing in-house shows the company’s attempt to edge out suppliers like Delphi and Mobileye.
Sterling Anderson was working with the former CTO of Google’s self-driving arm, Chris Urmson.
Before joining Apple in 2014, Musa Tariq headed up Nike’s digital marketing.
Ex-Apple engineer Chris Lattner says he’s an “un-car person.”
From immigration to surveillance to self-driving cars, Trump’s cabinet appointments give us a glimpse of what’s to come.
Also, self-driving trucks and a way for small drones to assemble into a big drone.
Google’s former head of search, Amit Singhal, and the company’s SVP of engineering, Kevin Thompson, will be working together at the ride-sharing behemoth.
Uber did not admit to any of the alleged violations.
There are still some lingering questions about human distraction while driving in a semi-autonomous car.