Drivemode raises $6.5M from Panasonic and others for smartphone car tech

 If you’re an Android device owner and also a driver, you may already be familiar with…

Nine manufacturers set for 2018 Formula E season

 Formula E announced the nine manufacturers that will race electric cars in seasons five, six, and…

Wanna hack your car? Macchina is a plug-and-vroom solution

 You can hack your IKEA furniture to be more awesome. You can hack video games to…

DeepScale raises $3 million for perception AI to make self-driving cars safe

 According to the World Health Organization, human error causes more than 90% of traffic accidents across the…

Laying a trap for self-driving cars

 We spend a lot of time and words on what autonomous cars can do, but sometimes…

Tesla raised $1.2 billion via share and convertible debt sale

 Tesla has raised $1.2 billion in new cash from sale of common shares, and convertible notes…

Equity podcast: The return of IPOs and Tesla’s billion-dollar bet

 One down, many more to go! The first episode of TechCrunch’s latest podcast, Equity, our venture capital-focused podcast…

Leaked internal Uber documents show rocky self-driving car progress

 New internal Uber documents leaked to Recode detail the company’s progress toward realizing its dream of a…