China’s ‘elevated’ bus was a scam after all

Yesterday, Beijing police announced they’d opened an investigation for alleged illegal fundraising into the folks behind the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), as it was called. They’re holding over 30 people connected to the capital-raising platform Huaying Kailai, which raised funds from individual investors for the bus.

Ford exec points to ‘great progress’ on driverless cars

Ford is making “great progress” towards its goal of deploying its first fully self-driving car by 2021, says the automaker’s top research executive. But don’t expect Ford to be first. “We don’t worry too much about where the competitors are,” Ken Washington, Ford’s vice president of research and advanced engineering and chief technology officer.