Week-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...
Read MoreTeslička makes Tesla cars turn profit before autonomous tech
Recently on Twitter (where else?), Elon Musk said Tesla cars currently offer a window of opportunity, so to speak. That’s because they...
Read MoreUK poll: Most drivers not keen on autonomous cars
The results of the survey, which was carried out by IAM RoadSmart, the UK’s biggest independent road safety charity, provides further...
Read MoreWhere May Mobility’s self-driving shuttles might show up next
May Mobility might be operating low-speed self-driving shuttles in three U.S. cities, but its founders don’t view this as just another...
Read MoreElon Musk says self-driving tech could mean consumers will have a limited time to buy Teslas at current prices
Elon Musk has made no secret of his ambitions to create a fleet of self-driving electric Tesla “robotaxis” that can one day ferry...
Read MoreTesla will stop selling cars once full self-driving is solved, says Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been talking a lot about Tesla Network lately, part of Tesla’s “Master Plan, Part Deux” which will enable Tesla...
Read MoreWhat if Tesla’s self-driving tech was spun out, sold off or broken up?
Tesla continues to be in the news as their latest counts of (especially) Model 3 car deliveries are reported and analyzed with intense...
Read MoreWhat are the different levels of self-driving cars?
The levels of driving automation explained. The Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) sets what have come to be the most globally...
Read MoreSebastian Thrun, the godfather of the self-driving car industry, explains how Larry Page taught him to be a visionary, not just an ‘expert’
The self-driving car company, Waymo, took another big step forward this week in its ambitions to usher in a new era of robot taxis. The...
Read MoreRoborace features all-electric self-driving race cars, where programmers are the stars
If you find Formula One getting boringly predictable and wish to switch to something more interesting, driverless cars are waiting for...
Read MoreWhy self-driving cars may not help older drivers as much as some anticipate
Could self-driving cars keep older drivers on the road longer? They might, but it wouldn’t necessarily be safe, according to a new study...
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