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A law firm hired by the General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary Cruise to investigate the company’s response to a gruesome San Francisco crash last year found that the company failed to fully disclose disturbing details to regulators,…

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving development subsidiary, will lay off almost a quarter of its workforce—about 900 employees—the company announced Thursday. The cuts are part of a broader restructuring to focus the robotaxi unit on a…

Everyone involved in the strike should be calculating what’s at stake to figure out what sort of offers they’d be willing to accept or make—in other words, to resolve the whole dispute. “Absent calculating the pie, I would be negotiating…

Trucking and delivery driving jobs come in many different forms. Steve Viscelli, an economic sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies autonomous trucking, says that long-distance highway driving is the most susceptible…

California today cleared all-day paid robotaxi service in San Francisco—with unlimited fleets of self-driving cars. Soon, anyone in the city might be able to hail a driverless car with a few taps of a phone. And San Francisco cab and…

Lauren Goode: How often would you say that you see a car without a driver just cruising around San Francisco these days?Michael Calore: I would say at least a dozen a day.Lauren Goode: A dozen.Michael Calore: I usually commute by bike,…

Many repair shops, especially those who opt in and pay to be part of those certified networks, say they have no trouble finding the information they need to fix cars, even before this week’s agreement. Michael Bradshaw, vice president of…

The Chevy Bolt will soon be bolting from General Motors assembly lines.During GM's earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Mary Barra told investors the automaker would phase out production of its most popular electric car…

FordMotor Co. has delayed deliveries of certain vehicles because it didn’t have the blue oval badges that go on them, in another example of how supply-chain challenges have hit auto makers.The car company has run into supply constraints…

Image: Steve DaSilva (Assets: EM Motorcars, edrodr-76 via eBay)A signed 8x10 Photo of Elon Musk wearing a spacesuit that I found on eBay.Photo: edrodr-76 via eBayPhoto: EM MotorcarsCar prices are a curious thing these days, and so is…