CES 2025: less automotive, more AI

By Roland Mayr

AI was clearly the dominant theme at CES 2025. Products become smarter, and humanoid robots are a thing now.

The car of the future is emerging — in XR

By Adam Tinworth

Despite bad car news from Apple and Tesla, and the lack of true autonomous cars on the roads, innovation is still happening — just not where you expect.

Quantum Realms: why predicting the next major innovation is so hard

By Adam Tinworth

Quantum computing is potentially the next great wave of innovation - but it's in the pre-product, pre-consumer stage, so it's hard to understand. But what other science could end up upending how we live?

Automotive after peak car: Valhalla burning?

By Martin Recke

Have we reached peak car, the tipping point where sales and usage of cars start to decline? And what does this mean for automotive, the dominant German industry?

Autonomous cars can fix road deaths – if we don’t rush them onto the roads too fast

By Adam Tinworth

In recent weeks, autonomous cars have been responsible for the deaths of a pedestrian and a driver. Are we moving too fast with this innovation?

Change how we travel, change the world

By Adam Tinworth

Self-driving vehicles will reshape more than the automotive: they have the potential to change everything from retail to the very fabric of our cities.

Planes, Drones and Autonomous Automobiles

By Adam Tinworth

Drone-carried bags, autonomous taxis to the airport along with VR in-flight entertainment. These are fever dreams of the near-future from a long-haul departure lounge…

Two Major Possible Scenarios for Automotive and Mobility

By Martin Recke

The business model of the automotive industry is about to change drastically. Let’s look at two possible scenarios.

Autonomous cars will make the real estate industry rich

By Adam Tinworth

Self-driving cars could change our urban landscape as much as cars did over a century ago. Start planning now.

The urban impact of autonomous cars

By Adam Tinworth

Forget the auto industry - self-driving cars will force us to rethink the very way we use urban space, says a new report.

Trapping a self-driving car in a magic circle

By Adam Tinworth

Magic meets technology in this conceptual project, where a magic circle of road markings confounds a self-driving car.

Relive #NEXT16 – the first videos are up

By Adam Tinworth

Experience the insights of #NEXT16 as the first wave of videos from the event become available.

NEXT16: Nils Wollny on mobile VR

By Adam Tinworth

What happens when you aren't driving your car? Maybe, you can be driven through a whole other reality… Audi is exploring this idea.

Mobileye: Tesla’s Autopilot isn’t a self-driving car system

By Adam Tinworth

After the Autopilot system in Teslas has been blamed for deaths, the software provider is fighting back against accusations made against it.

The elusive self-driving cars of Singapore

By Adam Tinworth

Self-Driving taxis are on the road already in Singapore - but they're hard to get a ride in right now.

Audi cars to start talking to traffic lights

By Adam Tinworth

While you driving, your Audi might be chatting away to the traffic management system of your city…

The first self-driving taxis hit the streets… this month

By Adam Tinworth

Uber has unexpectedly leap-frogged Google by putting its autonomous cars onto the streets.

Watch: Flying an ocean under solar power

By Adam Tinworth

The Solar Impulse team is proving that solar power can go much further than we though - but can it come into practical reality?

Tesla’s Autopilot: a potentially dangerous distraction from true autonomous cars

By Adam Tinworth

As Tesla's Autopilot comes under scrutiny, are we finding a dangerous middle grounding autonomous car tech?

When your car is a computer – what happens next?

By Adam Tinworth

The car is inexorably becoming a computer on wheels. What happens when it does?