Mobility Report

Qualcomm unveiled more powerful versions of its automated driving and digital cockpit platforms, delivering computing and AI performance several times greater than before.

The reinvented Japan Mobility Show kicks off its new annualized schedule outside Tokyo with a business-to-business agenda focused on matching startups with such giants of Japan Inc. as Toyota, Nissan and Honda.

While automakers toil to build visual interfaces that can compete with big tech, voice assistants represent the next battleground for a key consumer touch point.

An industry has been spawned. An ecosystem around the electric motor and battery is teeming with life. And whether Americans can be lured into an EV with the promise of a $7,500 tax credit is not going to put the brakes on electrification.

The fear is that vehicles wired with suspect software could become a sleeper cell fifth column ready to be turned on the American public with the flip of a switch in Beijing or Moscow.

Mapping efforts mark the first California operations for GM's self-driving subsidiary since one of the company's cars ran over a pedestrian in October 2023.