Stainless Steel Cybertruck Good, Steel Level 5 Autonomous Ride Sharing Electric Vehicle Better
With an assist from the global steel industry, the humble electric vehicle battery case is ready for its Mobility-as-as-Service closeup.
With an assist from the global steel industry, the humble electric vehicle battery case is ready for its Mobility-as-as-Service closeup.
The IIHS has made it tougher for vehicles to earn a top safety award in 2023. Many perennial favorites did not make the cut this year.
As the delivery date for the first Polestar 2 nears, crash tests reveal how the car’s SPOC Block works to keep occupants and first responders safe.
It’s been a rough few weeks for boosters of vehicle autonomy. In March, one of Uber’s pilot autonomous vehicles killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg while she was crossing the street. A few days later, Walter Huang died when his Model X hit a highway barrier in California with the Autopilot system engaged. Mr. Huang was not the first Autopilot-related fatality: in 2016, Joshua Brown was killed in a crash while his Model S was in Autopilot mode (an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “did not identify any defects in the design or performance” of Autopilot).
Heads-up, pay attention to those colored cables, one clue to identification — how to handle a crash involving electric vehicles. The numbers electric cars on the road only recently increased from hundreds to the ever-increasing thousands. This increase necessitates new, more broadly distributed information about safe handling of crashes involving … [continued]