How autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along
Two years ago, Lime was a great addition to guacamole, rather than a sidewalk. The market wasn’t sure about car sharing and whether it had...
Read MoreThe promise of self-driving delivery vehicles: Insights from Nuro cofounder Dave Ferguson
How many times have you gotten into your car to simply drive over to a local store to buy an item that you needed at your home? I’d wager...
Read MoreCould a morality setting be the future of autonomous vehicles?
A driver faces a terrible ethical dilemma: hit a pedestrian in the middle of the road, or swerve out of the way and drive into a brick...
Read MoreDespite high hopes, self-driving cars are ‘way in the future’
A year ago, Detroit and Silicon Valley had visions of putting thousands of self-driving taxis on the road in 2019, ushering in an age of...
Read MoreSelf-driving safety, talking to robots (podcast)
Noah Zych, ATG Chief of Staff at Uber, talks about building trust in autonomous vehicle safety. Author David Ewing Duncan discusses the...
Read MoreApollo’s 1202 program alarm, the 737MAX and driverless cars
On a scale of one to ten of difficulty and danger, Neil Armstrong thought walking around on the moon was about a one. Landing on the moon,...
Read MoreAutonomous cars: safety opportunity or cybersecurity threat?
It all started as science fiction, but the possibilities of autonomous cars gracing our roads are getting closer to reality by the day....
Read MoreContinental’s self-driving chief sees full autonomy taking time
The first fully autonomous vehicles able to handle all conditions on public roads — and potentially replacing private car ownership,...
Read MoreMasters of Agronomy: Greenskeeping Water Buffalo crews and autonomous Robo Mowers too
When it comes to golf course maintenance, deploying herds of grass munching goats and sheep to tidy up turf and keep rough from getting...
Read MoreWeek-in-Review: Google’s never-ending autonomous road trip
Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while...
Read MoreDriverless cars are taking longer than we expected. Here’s why.
When world-altering technologies come about, people can find themselves, literally, at a loss for words. So they sometimes define new...
Read MoreSelf-driving gas car — a horse led by a carrot on a stick?
Elon Musk has said that buying a car today that will not be upgradable to enable full autonomy is like buying a horse. It’s implied that...
Read MoreThe five components of autonomous leadership
It was only four years ago that AlphaGo began beating the world’s top professional Go players and Google released TensorFlow, an...
Read MoreDropping off passengers vexes self-driving cars, the last step is a doozie
I was using a ridesharing service last month in Detroit to get to a restaurant after having spoken at a conference on autonomous vehicles....
Read MoreInside the GM factory where Cruise’s autonomous Bolt is made
TechCrunch took a field trip to GM’s Orion Assembly plant in Michigan to get an up-close view of how this factory has evolved since the...
Read MoreThe future of autonomous vehicles runs off roads and on to farms, construction sites and mines
Fully self-driving passenger cars are not “just around the corner.” While the well-capitalized leaders — funded by corporations,...
Read MoreEarthquakes rattle proficiency of self-driving cars
California has been rocking and rolling, doing so to the tune of several recent earthquakes and aftershocks. That shaking feeling has also...
Read MoreThese are the 5 leaders in the self-driving-car race
Tech companies and auto companies are all racing to be he first to roll out self-driving cars onto the road. The stakes are high for...
Read MoreMoney and politics, not technology, stand between us and self-driving cars
Some human aspirations are easy to measure. JFK’s promise to put a man on the moon was simple: transport a human to the Moon where he will...
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