‘We’re not Google’ won’t cut it for TomTom
TomTom NV’s pitch to customers is simple: It’s not Google. Yet as jittery as carmakers might be about letting the Alphabet Inc. unit into...
Read MoreKey former Google engineer says safety wasn’t his primary concern when developing self-driving cars
A new report in The New Yorker details the events leading up to Waymo’s 2017 high-profile lawsuit alleging Uber stole its trade...
Read MoreMovement rises to keep humans, not robots, in the driver’s seat
Car enthusiast McKeel Hagerty’s future changed in March 2017. He was at a car event in Vancouver, British Columbia, when a stranger...
Read MoreElon Musk eyes early 2019 release for Tesla’s custom AI chip
Elon Musk has announced that Tesla’s new custom AI chip is about six months away from being installed in new production cars. The CEO said...
Read MoreFuturistic autonomous cars don’t have to ‘lack soul,’ Peugeot designer says
French car maker Peugeot doesn’t think the future of self-driving cars has to look like sci-fi-inspired pods. Instead, a design executive...
Read MoreArizona is creating an autonomous vehicle research institute
Arizona, a state that has been quite open to self-driving technology, has now created the Institute for Automated Mobility (IAM), a...
Read MorePennsylvania approves its first self-driving car tests (update)
Self-driving startup Aurora is the first company to receive Pennsylvania’s blessing to test autonomous vehicles on its roads....
Read MoreWebinar: Autonomous vehicles: Driving employment for people with disabilities
National Center for Mobility Management, October 16, 2018 Celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month and learn about the...
Read MoreShrimp eyes inspire new camera focused on helping self-driving cars see better
Have you ever looked into an animal’s eyes and thought, ‘I wonder how they see the world?’ We have. We do it all the time. We wonder, for...
Read MoreBMW board member in denial about EV revolution (yikes)
As we recently reported, Klaus Frölich, BMW’s board member in charge of development, recently opened up about the company’s “nightmare”...
Read MoreRand study shows it’s hard to gauge self-driving car safety
The great promise of automated vehicles is that they will be safer than human-driven ones, but finding the metrics to measure this is a...
Read MoreGM’s driverless vehicles require a ‘degree of harmonization’ with governments, innovation chief says
Ahead of General Motors’ launch of a driverless vehicle fleet in 2019, the legacy automaker is hoping for some cooperation with...
Read MoreWhat’s it like to be driven in a driverless car?
As driverless car technology becomes more sophisticated, companies are getting closer to developing a truly driverless experience. Compelo...
Read MoreKeeping disruption in perspective
Big shifts are coming to the auto retail world, and dealers say they’re getting ready for them. But don’t fall for all the...
Read MoreFuturistic autonomous cars don’t have to ‘lack soul,’ Peugeot designer says
French car maker Peugeot doesn’t think the future of self-driving cars has to look like sci-fi-inspired pods. Instead, a design...
Read MoreDubai launches its self-driving taxi service
It might not be flying taxis, but self-driving taxis on the road started test runs in Dubai on Sunday. At the annual consumer electronics...
Read MoreVolvo shifts safety strategy for self-driving future
Volvo, with a bevy of new tools to ensure passenger safety, is shifting its safety strategy from passenger protection to accident...
Read MoreChange is coming to automobile dealerships
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” I was...
Read MoreThe beauty & the beast at #MondialParis
There were two cars that stole the show and competed for the most desirable automobile at the Mondial de l’Auto 2018 à Paris....
Read MoreNot everyone is ready to ride as autonomous vehicles take to the road in ever-increasing numbers
Pennsylvania regulators this week gave the nod to Aurora, an autonomous vehicle software company, to begin testing its prototypes on state...
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