2018 LA Auto Show — more on autonomy & security, few innovative electric cars
The 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show 2018 shows a new face, new trends, and that electric vehicles (EV) are here to stay — despite a fairly low...
Read MoreA not-so-sexy plan to win at self-driving cars
ARIEL MOORE EXHALED sharply and lifted her arms to the sky. “I have arrived alive!” she said to no one in particular. “I have arrived...
Read MoreAudi to spend nearly $16 billion on self-driving car tech, electrification through 2023
Audi, the German luxury automaker under VW Group, said Tuesday it will invest €14 billion ($15.95 billion) over the next five years on...
Read MoreNissan looks to future that’s driverless, with fewer cars
Every automaker needs to plan for the future. For more than a century, this generally has meant determining which types of vehicles to...
Read MoreUber hires former NHTSA official to help with self-driving car program
Uber has hired a former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) official to work in its self-driving car program, which has...
Read MoreAmerica’s first self-driving car bill gets last-minute push from Congress
Senators have been negotiating for over a year to pass a bill that would pave the way for a regulatory framework that would govern...
Read MoreThis futuristic car could solve a multibillion-dollar problem facing Amazon, Walmart, and Target
The company behind Walmart’s pickup towers has developed a self-driving car that could upend the last-mile delivery industry. The...
Read MoreInstead of shuttling around people ThorDrive delivers hardware supplies in self-driving vans
A little rain didn’t dampen ThorDrive, a self-driving car platform based in Seoul, from launching its self-driving delivery service....
Read More2019 may be year of the driverless car: Here’s where top automakers stand
Car manufacturers are hoping autonomous-driving technology will spur a revolution among consumers, igniting sales and repositioning the...
Read MoreAt Waymo, it’s launch time for Google’s biggest moonshot
It helps to know this about John Krafcik: He’s unusually upbeat. Lean and lively, he’s glued to a Chromebook playing a video of a minivan...
Read MoreGM’s Cruise has had the most self-driving crashes in California – here’s how the autonomous rivals stack up when it comes to safety
Self-driving cars will be safer than our current roads, experts say. But until we get to full autonomy, there have been – and will...
Read MoreG.M.’s President will take over its self-driving effort
A top General Motors official is taking on a new role that underlines the auto industry’s intense push to develop and commercialize...
Read MoreThis 23-year-old robotics prodigy is leading the pack in the driverless truck race
For Alex Rodrigues, it all began with a robot named Muffin. As a junior high school student in Calgary, Alberta, Rodrigues competed and...
Read MoreIf Waymo is having difficulty, everyone else must be in a right autonomous driving pickle
Waymo is taking a step backward in terms of the commercial readiness of its autonomous driving offering by reinstalling safety drivers and...
Read MoreINIT, Bestmile to integrate driverless vehicles into public transport
Bestmile and INIT announced a partnership to incorporate driverless vehicles into public transport to provide fully-integrated mobility...
Read MoreOhio cities sign up to be autonomous-vehicle testing grounds
Four Ohio cities signed agreements with the state government this week to open their streets to the testing of connected and autonomous...
Read MoreExtremely precise Bosch sensor will help self-driving cars navigate roads more accurately
Self-driving cars require an array of sensors to figure out things human drivers take for granted, like knowing the exact position of a...
Read MoreAudi and Disney are creating media for self-driving cars
If and when fully autonomous cars hit the road in earnest, you’re going to have a lot of free time on your hands. Audi and Disney...
Read MoreUber removed the second backup driver from its self-driving cars ahead of the crash that killed an Arizona pedestrian
After one of the Uber’s self-driving test cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March, some employees blamed the safety...
Read MoreDemand for faster, cheaper deliveries is good news for autonomous vehicle makers
Bots, drones and driverless cars and trucks are going to explode on the scene in coming years as demand for speedy delivery of goods...
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