EV/AV Report: Confused AVs, Ford price-cuts and Montreal on the map
Toronto, Ontario — A first responder yells at an autonomous vehicle (AV) driving towards a San Francisco fire truck, Ford announces its own electric vehicle (EV) price cuts in a bit to compete with Tesla’s own reductions, and Montreal’s EV investments begin to bear fruit in North America’s e-trucking industry. This is the latest in […]
Are We There Yet: Tesla releases Full Self-Driving beta to U.S. drivers, Canadians still waiting
Toronto, Ontario — Do you have a Tesla and drive with a safety score above 95? You might have full self-driving on your system as we speak: but probably not, if you live in Canada. Over the weekend, Tesla’s 10.11 software update provided updates for safer assisted driving and unlocking the self-driving beta for some […]
New Driver, Caution: self-driving Teslas in Canada by Feb. 25, says Musk
UPDATE: As of March 14, 2022, Drive Tesla Canada reports there have been no known Full Self-Driving beta downloads in Canada. Toronto, Ontario — Elon Musk confirmed that 60 self-driving cars in Canada were being tested by Feb. 25, marking the first expansion of Tesla’s self-driving beta outside the United States. “Hoping to go wider […]
Autonomous Vehicle Report – overestimating the arrival of self-driving cars
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario – April 12, 2019 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, a CEO from a major OEM casts doubt on the public’s timing expectations for autonomous vehicles as self-driving cars as self-driving vehicles roam around a major European city. Delayed Arrival We’ve been hearing about it for years and expecting it any […]
What to expect at the 2019 CES
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — January 4, 2019 — As time progresses so do the advancements in technology, and the event that demonstrates it every year is the Consumer Electronic Show. This year’s show has quite the agenda with various OEMs displaying their latest concepts on self-driving cars, flying cars, and even walking cars?! […]
Can you believe this?! – October 18, 2018
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — October 19, 2018 –-This week, we have found a bunch of unbelievable news including the reveal of an actual self-driving car, a collection of fake recall notices that were sent out and much, much more! An actual self-driving flying car There has been discussion from Toyota about creating […]
The Autonomous Report: Calgary looks at driverless shuttles, China fast-forwards self-driving tests and examining the impact on cities
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 27, 2016 — The emergence of automated vehicles is a hot and trendy topic these days. Collision Repair magazine provides a weekly look at some of the developments in the field. – Calgary has announced it will begin running a driverless shuttle between the Zoo LRT station and […]
The Autonomous Report: Ghosn’s future vision, proliferation is decades away and a self-driver runs out of gas
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 20, 2016 — This week in the autonomous vehicle (AV) world, we look at Nissan’s CEO’s vision for the future of AVs, concerns that President-elect Trump will gut self-driving regs and a self-driving Uber appears to have made a very human error. – The Detroit News suggests that, […]
The Autonomous Report: Self-driving truck makes its first delivery and OEMs send a clear message to tech companies
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 30, 2016 — We round up the latest news on autonomous vehicles (AVs) just in time for Halloween. Highlights from the last week include executives from the OEMs firing back at the tech companies encroaching on auto turf and an autonomous truck makes its first delivery (of beer). […]
The Autonomous Report: Telsa turns off Autopilot, even cheaper LIDAR on the way and operators battle for bandwidth
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 23, 2016 — Highlights from the world of autonomous vehicles this week includes news that Tesla will turn off its Autopilot but continue to include the capability in its cars, Infineon Technologies intends to sell a LIDAR unit that costs just $25 and a new survey shows Americans […]
