Filed under: Etc., Hatchback, Ford, Electric
This time last year, Ford was pulling the wraps off the Focus Electric at CES in Las Vegas. Twelve months later, Ford is slowly beginning production of its first EV at its Michigan Assembly plant and dropped off one early example to the crew at Google.
We’re not sure what the [...]
Filed under: Etc., Japan, Technology
The online news cycle moves at a blistering pace. It’s easy to forget that, while the story of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that occurred last March may move from the front page, individuals are still struggling to cope with the widespread devastation on the island.
Google took it upon itself to [...]
Filed under: Etc., Technology, Rumormill
In the midst of a longer piece on the top-secret Google X lab, The New York Times drops this bomb: “Google may turn one of the ideas – the driverless cars that it unleashed on California’s roads last year – into a new business.”
It was just over a year ago when [...]
Filed under: Etc.
In Google’s relentless push to map and photograph the world’s public spaces, the search giant has prepared custom trikes to bring its Street View treatment to parks.
Using these specially developed, tech-laden trikes, riders can take 360-degree photographs of trails and parks as they pedal through, providing would-be visitors a chance to see the [...]
Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Videos
Google co-founder Sergey Brin announced at Web 2.0 that Google’s next goal for its driverless cars is to go 1,000,000 miles without driver intervention. According to Brin, Google’s teams have already amassed more than 1,000 incident free miles without driver involvement.
Up to now, Google’s driverless cars have gone 160,000 miles, [...]
