More companies are trying to bring self-driving cars to the masses than ever before, but a truly autonomous vehicle still doesn’t exist. It’s not clear if, or when, our driverless future will arrive. Where exactly are we with self-driving cars, and when can we expect them to be a part of our daily lives?
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Over the last 20 years the Indian automotive market has grown from about 500,000 new vehicles to 3.5 million in 2018. But some automakers have struggled to make it work. Among them is General Motor...
American cars are struggling in China, and it may only get tougher for automakers. One company that has seen its share of struggles in the Chinese market is Ford. The company arrived late to China,...
More companies are trying to bring self-driving cars to the masses than ever before, but a truly autonomous vehicle still doesn’t exist. It’s not clear if, or when, our driverless future will arriv...
The name Volvo has been synonymous with car safety for decades. The brand has often been the first to introduce key safety features that are now common across the car industry. Safety, though, has ...
American automakers take their trucks extremely seriously. And the ongoing battles for dominance among the Detroit three are often called the "Truck wars". Third place challenger Ram has made wave...
The Hummer was an angular, militaristic, go-anywhere truck that became an emblem of 1990s pop culture. General Motors' Hummer was a coveted status symbol sought by celebrities and a sometimes mocke...
The Toyota Land Cruiser is one of the auto industry's longest lasting and most widely-known brands. Land Cruisers have been in continuous production since the 1950s. It was also one of the first ve...
The tiny Smart car was meant to be a revolutionary new idea in urban mobility. But more than 20 years after its creation, the Smart car pulled out of the U.S. after years of increasingly dismal sal...
The station wagon was once a fixture of American family life. These days, however, it has nearly vanished from American roads and it shows in the tiny number of wagons sold every year. In the Unite...
MINI was a brand created in the midst of a fuel crisis. But the ultra-small cars designed to provide cheap and easy transportation for Britons in the 1950s and '60s became a cultural phenomenon and...
U.S. airports, for the most part, are publicly owned and operated by either a city, a county, a state or in some cases, a public authority. But, in the face of decaying infrastructure, a handful of...
China is leading the world in electric vehicle adoption, with almost all city buses run on electric batteries. The U.S. has been slow to catch on, with only 300 electric buses delivered last year c...
Trees are burning up around the planet at an alarming rate and impacting the climate. Now a new effort to plant as many trees as possible has taken hold around the globe. But will it mitigate clima...
Affordable housing has become a crisis on the West Coast, due in large part to the expansion of the tech industry. Cities like San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle have all seen rising housing costs...
More companies are trying to bring self-driving cars to the masses than ever before, but a truly autonomous vehicle still doesn’t exist. It’s not clear if, or when, our driverless future will arriv...
After Uber’s disastrous IPO, 2019 proved to be a rough year for the ridesharing giant. But there was one bright spot for Uber - its $3.1 billion acquisition of the Dubai-based ridesharing service C...
Cyberwarfare is the new weapon of choice for ransom attackers and nation states. And as the more than 9,700 power plants in the U.S. become more high tech, the ways in which utilities can be target...
Robocalls are at an all-time high. On average, Americans received more than 2,000 robocalls every second in October, up 25% from the previous month. With 49 billion robocalls so far this year, all...
Google’s hardware strategy has been somewhat of a puzzle. Why does a company that earns nearly all of its revenue from online advertising need the hassle of building and marketing hardware?
CNBC got a first look inside Lyft's level 5 lab, where it builds self-driving cars that are being tested on roads now. Self-driving rides are also available to select Lyft passengers in Arizona and...
Nuclear power has a controversial history, but many energy experts say it has a major role to play in our energy future. Some in the industry are working to make standard fission power safer and ch...
When Gmail was released to the public on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was a prank. Gmail offered one gigabyte of storage and robust email search. These features, among others, have helped ...
Returns take a major toll on retailers' bottom line and on the planet, but Amazon is taking big steps to change that. Free returns are now offered on almost all Amazon orders, with a new option to ...
Today, one out of three people don’t have access to safe drinking water. And that’s the result of many things, but one of them is that 96.5% of that water is found in our oceans. It’s saturated wit...