By John R. Quain
- Feb 5, 2020
Mobile World Congress Show Hoping to Boost 5G is Getting Hit by Coronavirus Fears Instead
The annual mobile communications show in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress (MWC), just had another major participant cancel weeks before...
By John R. Quain
- Jan 15, 2020
The Best Car Tech of CES 2020
This year's CES 2020 tech show was a much more muted affair than in (many) years past. There was no single killer product, and there was...
By John R. Quain
- Jan 9, 2020
The Silliest Mobility and Car Tech at CES 2020
Hyundai Uber Taxi Last year, Bell installed a giant drone mockup on the CES show floor, drawing stares from thousands of visitors. This...
By John R. Quain
- Dec 17, 2019
Ford: More Money for EVs and AVs
Closing out 12 months that will become known as the Big Self-Driving Car Reset, Ford Motor Co. is putting its money where the future is...
By John R. Quain
- Oct 25, 2019
What Autonomous Cars Can't See Can Hurt You
In a year when the autonomous vehicle business has hit a big reset button, consensus is growing among designers that self-driving cars...
By John R. Quain
- Oct 11, 2019
Best Electric Cars, Dyson Won't Be One of Them
Vacuum maker Dyson abandoned its efforts to enter the electric car market this week. Unable to find a way to make it "commercially...
By John R. Quain
- Sep 20, 2019
Amazon Bets on EVs
Electric vehicles--and Ford-backed Rivian in particular--got another kick in the collective rear bumper this week, thanks to Amazon....
By John R. Quain
- Sep 10, 2019
What GM's Adoption of Google's Android Really Means
The fight for the dashboard has been an ongoing software battle for more than a decade. But in recent years, it has lost much of its...
By John R. Quain
- Jul 31, 2019
Is Parking the First Task to Go Autonomous?
Last week's announcement that Bosch and Mercedes-Benz would begin the first government approved deployment of a fully-autonomous driving...
By John R. Quain
- Jul 22, 2019
Autonomous Shuttles: The Trouble With Pedestrians
Last week, a Navya self-driving shuttle in a residential Vienna neighborhood bumped into a pedestrian. The female walker reportedly...
