GM’s First Self-Driving Cars Will Still Be Driven by Humans
General Motors will deploy a network of self-driving cars within Lyft’s service in a couple of years--but with a catch. In the beginning, those automated vehicles will have drivers, said Mike Ableson,...
View ArticleGM’s Mary Barra Continues to Surprise, and Impress
I continue to be impressed by Mary Barra's leadership of General Motors gm . Time and again she causes me to smite my forehead, at least figuratively, and ask, "This is GM?" The latest example is GM...
View ArticleThese Are the 10 Worst Cars of 2016
Trying to steer clear of the clunkers lurking at your local wheels dealership? Then you may wish to avoid these autos. Get Data Sheet, Fortune's technology newsletter. Out of the all the latest models,...
View ArticleGM Is Planning a Big Push in China’s Car Market
Despite an economic slowdown in China, General Motors is plotting a big push there over the next few years. On Monday, the automaker detailed its goals at a press briefing in Beijing, including plans...
View ArticleGM Is Recalling Thousands of Police Cars
General Motors has issued a recall that affects nearly 6,300 police cars in the United States, reports the Associated Press. The vehicles are at risk of power-steering failure due to “corrosion on a...
View ArticleExclusive: Sidecar Co-founder Leaves General Motors for Uber
In February, General Motors acquired the assets and talent behind ride-hailing startup Sidecar to help it develop its own car service. But the Sidecar band isn’t staying together. Jahan Khanna, who...
View ArticleGM Shifts $245M Investment From Michigan to Kansas
General Motors is moving production of a planned new vehicle--rumored to be a crossover Cadillac--out of its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan to a factory in Kansas. The move means Orion loses...
View ArticleVerizon Strike Among the Top 3 of the Last 10 Years
About 40,000 Verizon workers up and down the East Coast walked off the job on Wednesday after contract negotiations broke down. The nation’s second-largest telecommunications carrier by revenue wants...
View ArticleWhy Europe’s Biggest Railway is Working on Self-Driving Cars
Getting people on a train isn’t the hard part; it’s getting them to the train station or bus stop that has long vexed public transit companies and urban planners. Deutsche Bahn, a German-based railway...
View ArticleGM Comes Clean About Testing Self-Driving Tech on the New Chevy Bolt EV
Photos of a Chevy Bolt EV equipped with radar on the roof and being driven by the co-founder of an autonomous vehicle startup that General Motors recently acquired seemed like evidence enough that the...
View ArticleWhy You’ll Want to Tune Into Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech
This essay originally appeared in Data Sheet,Fortune's daily tech newsletter. Sign up here. During a few days from July 11 to 13, Silicon Valley will take a break from being the center of the tech...
View ArticleQuiz: 5 Questions About General Motors
General Motors came in at No. 8 on this year’s Fortune 500, the highest ranked auto company on the list. After a tough few years spent mostly dealing with the aftermath of a massive recall scandal, GM...
View ArticleWhy GM is Slashing the Price of its In-Car Wireless Data Plans
General Motors has cut the price of its wireless data plans in half, giving the automaker a competitive advantage over an industry trying to use in-car Internet connectivity to attract customers. The...
View ArticleGM’s President Hopes to Drive the Automaker Into the Future
A 2012 Reuters headline asked whether Dan Ammann, then General Motors’ chief financial officer, is a "bean counter" or a "car guy," the former a reference to his career in finance. Since becoming the...
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