Audi 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 MoreThe pitch: Survive the autonomous era
Auto industry analysts from Bob Lutz to the consulting firm McKinsey foresee a decline in private auto sales in the approaching autonomous...
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 MoreFully autonomous vehicles must learn how to read pedestrians’ intentions
There are so many variables to take into account when it comes to pedestrians. Human drivers know this all too well. We are quite adept at...
Read MoreThe marketing fallout of autonomous vehicles
Auto industry analysts from Bob Lutz to the consulting firm McKinsey foresee a decline in private auto sales in the approaching autonomous...
Read MoreWhere is demand for autonomous?
TO THE EDITOR: Being in automotive sales, I spend much of my day discussing the future of the industry, not with outside experts or...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles will completely change how we shop
Since 2015, there have been at least 57 major retail bankruptcies. And after more than 5,000 store closures in 2017, we are on track to...
Read More7 insane roads that will push self-driving cars to their very limits
The technology that powers autonomous cars has clearly improved by leaps and bounds over the years. Tech companies and automakers alike...
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 MoreThe dawn of self-driving companies
If you’ve already imagined how profoundly self-driving vehicles will change our lives, think of what self-driving companies could do. I’m...
Read MoreWhy self-driving vehicles need a crystal ball
A pedestrian stands along a street with one foot on the curb and the other in the crosswalk. A bicyclist lifts a foot off the ground and...
Read MoreHow autonomous cars will reshape our world
Nobody, not even transportation experts like me, had an inkling that ride-on-demand services like Uber would change our travel habits so...
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 MoreWhy General Motors shifted gears in its manufacturing strategy
The decision earlier this week by General Motors to close five plants in North America, lay off some 14,000 workers, and retire six of its...
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 MoreL.A. Auto Show: Honda researches self-driving technology in its own backyard
Real-world experience away from a test track is hard to come by, for the technologies that will eventually enable autonomous cars to...
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