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Category: Self-driving
The newest attraction of the highly recommended Computer History Museum in Mountain View in California is one of Google’s self-driving mini-cars. Those have no steering wheel or gas pedals anymore. And why should they? A fully autonomous car of Level 4 does not expect a passenger to take control at any time, except telling the …
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Category: Automotive
The German magazine Captain Gadget visited the Tesla factory in Fremont and got unprecedented footage of the Model S and Model X assembly. Here are the images and the video.
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Category: Automotive
Tesla granted CBS access to their Fremont factory, showing the Tesla Model X during assembly and how the battery is married with the frame. Watch the video.
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Category: Automotive, Self-driving, Silicon Valley
Without any doubt Silicon Valley leads with the number the self-driving and autonomous car initiatives. Living here since 2001 I every day encounter self-driving cars on the streets in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and San Francisco. Just this Sunday I encountered a Dodge van with mounted cameras and radar systems on Shoreline Blvd …
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Category: Automotive, Silicon Valley
“But Tesla is losing money! They just announced heavy losses!” The knowing smile on the face of this German manager was immediately followed by an astonished look on his face. “And still their share prices rose and remain on a high level. I just don’t get it!” It’s true, in summer 2015 Tesla lost per …
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Category: Automotive, Failure, Innovation
German car makers have been under pressure for some time, and that from an unexpected area. Not the usual suspects are giving them hard times, but newcomers who come with full war chests and lots of ideas to overtake markets that make traditional concepts look old. A recent announcement of Porsche to offer an all …
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Category: Automotive, Failure
At this weeks Chaos Computer Club conference in Germany, one presentation went into details explaining two aspects of the Diesel scandal. First, a dive behind the scenes what the likely reasons, decision paths, and management involvements were that brought VW to this route. Second, an analysis of what the cheat code looks like and what …
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Category: Automotive, Innovation, Startup
The current unfolding of the Volkswagen cheat-scandal doesn’t miss out in drama. Millions of VW/Porsche/Audi-cars seem to be affected, recalls, multiple solutions, fines and damage payments, a sales decline, investigations all over the world, troves of people leaving, and now also Opel (a GM brand). We are just waiting for how more car-makers are involved …
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Category: Automotive, Case study, Failure
It is still mind-boggling how fast Nokia fell from the top rank of the dominant phone company to being sold to Microsoft within five years. How did this happen? And more importantly, can this happen to other companies as well? Those are the questions that researcher tried to figure out in an extensive study for …
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Category: Automotive, Innovation
While the scandal around Volkswagen’s emissions fraud is still unfolding, one thing is clear: it’s going to be costly in any aspect. And it may be the demise of iconic Volkswagen. What is known today is that some people at Volkswagen thought that cheating is acceptable. And it blew up in their face big times. …
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