New documentary Autonomy makes the convincing case that self-driving cars will change everything
Autonomy, a new documentary on self-driving cars directed by Alex Horwitz and produced by Car and Driver magazine, gets its most grievous...
Read MoreToyota reveals ‘self-driving electric moon car’ as Japan prepares to land astronauts on the moon
Japan is planning a moon landing for 2029 and wants its astronauts to explore the lunar surface in a vehicle built by Japanese automaker...
Read MoreUS DOT forms council to support emerging transportation tech
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced a council aimed at supporting transportation projects including hyperloops and...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles could be an environmental boon or disaster
Widespread use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could either massively increase or drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions depending, in...
Read MoreTesla Autopilot & full self-driving prices rising on Monday — buy now to beat the price increase
News broke overnight that it isn’t just car prices that are going up Monday, March 18th, but the prices for Autopilot and Full...
Read MoreGM’s first autonomous car heads to Henry Ford Museum
General Motors has donated its first self-driving car, a 3-year-old Chevy Bolt electric car modified for autonomous operation, to the...
Read MoreUber’s self-driving car unit was burning $20 million a month
Uber thought it would have 75,000 autonomous vehicles on the roads this year and be operating driverless taxi services in 13 cities by...
Read MoreIf driverless cars are going to change the world, they have to be affordable
Silicon Valley is pouring billions into robot cars. Soon – although the time scale keeps shifting – tech manufacturers say driverless cars...
Read MoreComma.ai founder George Hotz wants to free humanity from the AI simulation
What keeps George Hotz, the enigmatic hacker and founder of self-driving startup Comma.ai, up at night is not whether his autonomous car...
Read MoreFCA thrives alone, but tie-up OK, too
Many observers speculated that without Sergio Marchionne keeping it intact, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles would be quickly sold off. But...
Read More14 experts choose their favorite tech from CES 2019
There’s no better place to get the inside scoop on groundbreaking new tech than the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), organized by...
Read More5G’s important role in autonomous car technology
The momentum for the realization of autonomous vehicles in mainstream use is reaching critical mass. Companies such as Tesla and Toyota...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars could soon navigate the world via micropayments
With autonomous vehicles already debuting on our roads and in our airspace, you’ve probably grown accustomed to the idea of a new future...
Read MoreSelf driving safety steps into the unknown
On August 30, 2017, I published an article in TheDrive about lessons that the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry could learn from decades of...
Read MoreGM’s self-driving division Cruise plans to double in size by year end
Cruise Automation, the San-Francisco startup acquired by General Motors in 2016, has plans to double in size this year. To help with its...
Read MoreTesla updates self-driving language, creates confusion and walks back features
Today, Tesla updated its language regarding Autopilot and self-driving capability on its website – walking back some previously announced...
Read MoreDaimler, BMW seek to define self-driving rules
Daimler and BMW want to set an industry standard that can help to shape future regulation for self-driving cars, senior executives said....
Read MoreCould unsupervised A.I. enable autonomous cars to learn as they go?
Most autonomous vehicle tech ventures such as Waymo, GM Cruise and Nvidia rack up miles of deep learning experience to build reliably safe...
Read MoreProsecutors don’t plan to charge Uber in self-driving car’s fatal accident
Arizona prosecutors said Tuesday that they had not found evidence to charge Uber with a crime in connection with an accident in which one...
Read MoreWhy Waymo is selling its autonomous driving sensors
Waymo, the autonomous driving unit for Alphabet (GOOGL – Get Report) (GOOG – Get Report) , is considered the leader in the...
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