The FTC said its complaint alleged that “GM used a misleading enrollment process to get consumers to sign up for its OnStar connected vehicle service and the OnStar Smart Driver feature.” Lina Khan, who is in her final week as FTC chair, said that “GM monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior ..
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Post-pandemic, my creed became “Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise.” That belief is why I’ve almost exclusively used a bike to move myself around Portland, Oregon since (yes, I have become a Portlandia stereotype). However, that lifestyle is a lot more challenging without some pedal assistance. For a few summers, I showed up ..
The battery system on an electric car can either charge—from regenerative braking or an external power supply—or discharge—powering the EV’s motor(s) or supplying that power via so-called vehicle-to-load. As a rule, it can’t do both at once, but General Motors has some thoughts about that. The patent analysis site CarMoses spotted a recent GM patent ..
“If it’s a one-second maneuver, you want it to take one second, right? Those millions of degrees of freedom model do not necessarily execute in real time like that. So there’s a translation that has to happen to be able to drive the simulator,” Rohweder said. Goodyear now has a pair of dynamic simulator centers, ..
However, the ban, as written, is not absolute. Companies can seek authorization to import software or hardware that would otherwise be outlawed, but the request would need to satisfy the US government and possibly be subject to conditions. There are also exemptions for software for vehicles older than model year 2027 and hardware for vehicles ..
With that data—plus, in some cases, data from connected vehicles—Allstate could see when, how far, and for how long someone was driving, along with “hard braking events” and “whether a consumer picked up or opened their phone while traveling at certain speeds,” according to the complaint. Texas’ lawsuit claims that Arity incentivized—through “generous bonus incentives”—apps ..
The Unified Lateral Controller The algorithm that handles all of that is called the Unified Lateral Controller. “So it’s a single software stack, but it is also modular to adapt with different vehicle configurations, with different driving scenarios, different maneuvers,” Zarringhalam said. “Let’s imagine that you’re driving a Super Cruise vehicle, and you indicate to ..
Yesterday, Tesla revealed a facelift for its bestselling Model Y crossover. Or at least it did if you live in China—customers in the US and Europe will need to continue to wait for the revamped electric vehicle. Better efficiency was a goal—in the past, Tesla simply ignored complaints over its exaggerated range claims, but now ..
Only 5 percent of US consumers want their next vehicle to be a battery electric vehicle, according to a new survey by Deloitte. The consulting company gathered data from more than 31,000 people across 30 countries as part of its 2025 Global Automotive Consumer Study, and some of the results are rather interesting, as they ..
Many more OEMs have lost eligibility, however. The Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV have both fallen off the list as General Motors has ended production of those models. Nissan is still building the Leaf—in Smyrna, Tennessee, in fact—but for 2025, it too loses tax credit eligibility. Volkswagen’s ID.4 similarly drops off the list, as do ..