Tesla’s disappointing numbers and more car news this week
ALLOW ME TO get a bit philosophical here: History is only smooth in retrospect. Few earth-shaking shifts are inevitable. A few steps...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars in 10 years: EU expects ‘fully automated’ cars by 2030
The European Union commissioner for transport expects full self-driving capability by 2030, she said this week at City as a Lab conference...
Read MoreAustria’s AI brain has a plan to take down Waymo and Tesla
Think of the European automobile industry and countries like Germany come to mind, with its luxury cars whizzing down the speed-limit-less...
Read MoreAutonomous driving tech startup Wayve has completed a test run without pre-mapped roads
Wayve, a UK-based autonomous driving technology startup, recently completed a test run of a car equipped with its technologies on a road...
Read MoreFirst ride in driveless car is a bit jerky, but still ‘pretty cool’
Andrew Ogawa says he is excited about self-driving car technology after getting his first ride in an autonomous vehicle Sunday. “It...
Read MoreHow Brexit could derail U.K.’s bid to be leader in autonomous car development
A report published by U.K. trade association the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and business consultancy firm Frost...
Read MoreElon Musk: Self-driving Teslas are going to make their owners money by competing with Uber, Lyft
Elon Musk says Tesla vehicles one day make money for their owners by autonomously transporting people when their owners are not using them...
Read MoreChina building a highway with dedicated lanes for autonomous vehicles
A new highway in China is being built that will have dedicated lanes for autonomous vehicles. The lanes reserved for self-driving cars...
Read MoreTesla woos Wall Street and drivers with autonomous vehicle fanfare
Yesterday was a somewhat mixed day for Tesla, as the electric carmaker announced that Q1 shipments fell 31% on the previous quarter, due...
Read MoreReuters poll finds American drivers still aren’t interested in autonomous cars
Surveys are far from the most reliable source of information, but they do provide a decent, if not perfect, look at how a large amount of...
Read MoreResearchers quantify the impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic
Researchers of the UWICORE laboratory, of the Department of Communications Engineering and the I3E Engineering Research Centre of the...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars could provide £62bn boost to UK economy by 2030
Britain’s leading position in developing self-driving cars could produce a £62bn economic boost by 2030, the car industry claimed – but...
Read MoreAudi to showcase self-driving city car
Audi said its AI:ME design study demonstrates is vision for a self-driving city car for megacities. The concept will have its public debut...
Read MoreTesla to show self-driving car progress to investors
Tesla announced on Wednesday that it will give investors an up-close look at its self-driving car in a bid to bolster confidence in the...
Read MoreMore stringent, more technical: Uber’s new look self-driving programme
In August 2016, Uber’s footing in the autonomous drive space became significantly more assured, having penned a deal with Volvo Cars to...
Read MoreGroupe PSA continues its autonomous driving tests as part of the European L3Pilot project
Groupe PSA is continuing its autonomous driving trial runs. Since the start of April, the Group’s vehicles equipped with level 3*...
Read MoreWayve claims ‘world first’ in driving a car autonomously with only its AI and a SatNav
Projects like Google’s Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem, basing most...
Read MoreBMW set to begin testing driverless cars in Israel
Silicon Valley, Detroit, and Pittsburgh may be technology hubs for the United States, but spread your sights to other countries, and...
Read MoreFord, GM and Toyota team up to develop standards for autonomous vehicles
Ford, General Motors and Toyota and have joined forces with SAE International to form the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium. Designed to...
Read MoreLet Congress decide privacy safeguards for autonomous vehicles, 2020 hopeful John Delaney says
Questions regarding the use of data collected from self-driving vehicles will need to be addressed by policymakers when they craft a...
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