Silicon Valley is resetting expectations for self-driving cars and settling in for years of more work.
After years of hype, billions of dollars of investments and promises that people would be commuting to work in self-driving cars by now,...
Read MoreJD.com, Meituan and Neolix to test autonomous deliveries on Beijing public roads
People in a Beijing suburb will begin to see autonomous delivery mini-vans across their neighborhood, moving cautiously alongside human...
Read MoreInfusing a dose of human driver skepticism into the AI driving systems of self-driving cars
Are you skeptical about most things? Maybe you are rarely skeptical. In that case, it might be that you take life as it seems to exist and...
Read MoreThe costly pursuit of self-driving cars continues on. And on. And on.
It was seven years ago when Waymo discovered that spring blossoms made its self-driving cars get twitchy on the brakes. So did soap...
Read MoreFrom driverless cars to robotic warehouses, China looks to automation to solve population issues
GUANGZHOU, China — Qin Jiahao has been working at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s logistics operations for around six years. Now a huge...
Read MoreSolving big city murder cases and other crimes via AI and self-driving cars
The nationwide murder rate is heading in the wrong direction. It is decidedly on the rise, rather than on the decline....
Read MoreChinese startup Pony.ai can now test driverless vehicles in three California cities
Chinese robotaxi startup Pony.ai has been given permission by California regulators to pilot its autonomous vehicles without a human...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars might never be able to drive themselves
The California Department of Motor Vehicles said this week it’s reviewing whether Tesla is telling people that its cars are self-driving...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars pose crucial question: Who to blame in a crash
A debate over who to blame — or sue — when a self-driven car hits someone is holding up legislation the industry says it needs...
Read MoreDiDi chooses NVIDIA DRIVE for new fleet of self-driving robotaxis
Robotaxis are one major step closer to becoming reality. DiDi Autonomous Driving, the self-driving technology arm of mobility technology...
Read MoreMay Mobility launches public road testing of natively automated vehicle based on the Sienna
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — May Mobility, a leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and shuttle operations,...
Read MoreWaymo eyes raising up to $4 billion as leaders’ exits sow doubts
Waymo is talking to outside investors about raising as much as $4 billion in additional capital to fuel its self-driving efforts. And the...
Read MorePedestrians said to need ‘reprogramming’ for the benefit of self-driving cars
When growing up, most children are taught the rather simple but altogether life-saving idea that they should look both ways before...
Read MoreLatest data shows Apple has increased self-driving test cars but decreased number of drivers
Apple Car rumors have been slow for the past couple of months. Today, a story from MacReports says the company has increased the number of...
Read MorePony.ai expands Robotaxi service scale in Beijing
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Pony.ai, a Chinese startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions, said on May 13 it has expanded the...
Read MoreNHTSA misses opportunity to say there’s no autonomous car yet
Lately, we’ve heard of more crashes that might involve Autopilot than we would like to report. A guy in desperate need of attention...
Read MoreGAC Aion, DiDi Autonomous Driving to co-develop driverless NEV model
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- GAC Aion, the electric vehicle subsidiary of GAC Group, announced on May 17 the strategic cooperation with DiDi...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars dealing with those barefaced acts of repeated brake-checking by human drivers
We’ve all been brake-checked at one time or another. Brake checking refers to the notion that a car ahead of you will pump on its brakes...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars will help soften the blow when asking loved ones to retire their keys
Most of us take for granted that we can drive a car. The driving act seems to be ostensibly trivial. You get behind the wheel, turn on the...
Read MoreA driverless Waymo got stuck in traffic and then tried to run away from its support crew
One of Waymo’s fully autonomous minivans got stuck at an intersection in Chandler, Arizona, prompting the company to send a roadside...
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