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John Kuolt is certain of what he’s not doing as founder and CEO of the year-old UP.Labs. He’s not building a startup incubator, nor a studio, and definitely not an accelerator program. What exactly is he doing? “We’ve been trying to figure out how to best describe it,” he said, mulling his choice of words […]

Advanced technologies such as intersection-assistance may be relevant to 650,000 crashes per year and could prevent hundreds of thousands of accidents, new data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows. “Left turn assist and other, upcoming intersection-assistance technologies could deliver big safety benefits for drivers in their 70s and 80s,” said Aimee Cox, IIHS

Striking truckers in South Korea reached an agreement with the government, ending a weeklong strike that added to the strain on global supply chains. The truck drivers will immediately resume their duties after agreeing to extend a freight rate system guaranteeing minimum wages, according to a statement from the Cargo Truckers Solidarity division of the

The electric version of the Chevrolet Blazer will retain key elements, such as a low, sporty profile and a hunched rear profile, featured on the gasoline-powered crossover when it launches next year. But it will also feature plenty of strakes and scoops up front and behind the front wheels, based on a newly released image.

Getty Images The sight of a car limping along on a near-flat tyre, or a roadside wheel change are still common. So is the expense of replacing tyres that have worn out prematurely, perhaps because the driver may not have been checking the pressure as regularly as they should. Sometimes it’s difficult not to feel

General Motors‘ electric van unit, BrightDrop, said it acquired technology startup Marain Inc. to “analyze, forecast and identify multi-modal solutions for fleet customers.” BrightDrop launched as a GM subsidiary in January 2021 to produce electric products, software and services to “empower delivery and logistics companies to move goods more efficiently.” Since then, BrightDrop has developed

Editor’s note: What3words provided an updated figure for how many JLR vehicles were involved in this integration. The updated figure is more than 230,000 vehicles, a spokeswoman for What3words said. Jaguar Land Rover said it will integrate geolocation program What3words into more than 230,000 existing vehicles to streamline in-vehicle navigation. Only vehicles with the Pivi

One of the earliest battlegrounds in industry efforts to commercialize self-driving truck technology may play out on Uber Freight, the online platform that matches carriers and customers. On Tuesday, Waymo said it reached an agreement with Uber Freight to deploy its self-driving trucks on the network at a scale eventually reaching “billions of miles” of

Automakers seek every edge in the race for innovation, from investing in startups to incubating solutions in-house. Porsche is adding a new page to that playbook — joining with a Los Angeles-based startup accelerator program to develop next-generation technologies and business models. Porsche will partner with UP.Labs to seed six mobility startups by 2025. The

Public electric vehicle charging infrastructure is not as reliable as many providers claim, according to a study in electric vehicle-heavy California. A study of 657 connectors at 181 public direct-current fast charger stations in the San Francisco Bay area found about 23 percent of them to be “nonfunctioning.” That finding, by researchers with the University