A Run of Fatal Airline Crashes Upends Sterling Safety Record February 20, 2025 By Allyson Versprille, Julie Johnsson and Gabrielle Coppola A spate of deadly airline crashes has tarnished the industry’s sterling track record, fraying the nerves of travelers and prompting...
GM, Ford Fall on Trump Tariffs Seen Adding $3,000 to Car Prices November 27, 2024 By David Welch, Gabrielle Coppola and Keith Laing Shares of US automakers tumbled on worries that a new round of tariffs imposed by President-elect Donald Trump will cause...
Car-Data Firms Flop as Automakers See Dollar Signs in Software February 13, 2023 By Gabrielle Coppola Auto companies promising billions in new software revenue by the end of the decade have been hiring engineers left and...
Porsche Expands Its ‘Flexible Ownership’ Subscription That Includes Insurance August 29, 2019 By Gabrielle Coppola Porsche is expanding its app-based subscription service to four new cities in the U.S. and Canada, deepening its experiment in...
Stolen High-End Cars Recovered in Chicago Car-Sharing Fraud April 18, 2019 By Gabrielle Coppola and Elizabeth Campbell Daimler AG and BMW AG’s joint car-sharing and mobility business has suspended service in Chicago after a fraud incident. Some...
Turning Sharing Into a Sales Pitch for Pricier New Cars March 11, 2019 By Gabrielle Coppola The ability to rent his car to strangers for cash convinced Trevor Davis, a high-school teacher in Dallas, to buy...
It’s Not Easy to Teach Robot Drivers to Think Like Humans October 9, 2018 By Gabrielle Coppola Robot cars make for annoying drivers. Relative to human motorists, the driverless vehicles now undergoing testing on public roads are...
Supplier Claims Uber Disabled Its Safety Tech in Volvo That Caused Pedestrian Fatality March 27, 2018 By Gabrielle Coppola and Ian King Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona...
NuTonomy Temporarily Halts Self-Driving Tests After Boston Asks March 21, 2018 By Gabrielle Coppola Self-driving startup NuTonomy halted its pilot tests on Boston’s public roads after city officials requested a pause following the death...
Arizona Became Autonomous Hotbed Prior to Uber’s Deadly Crash March 20, 2018 By Gabrielle Coppola, Ryan Beene and Dana Hull The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers in Pittsburgh....