Even as self-driving cars take to the road, drivers will still be in high demand
Tesla’s Elon Musk recently announced plans to start deploying driverless taxis across the United States next year. It was the latest...
Read MoreElon Musk may be a pain, but that doesn’t mean his ideas are crazy
You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to wonder if Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, is off his rocker. I mean to say, how many leaders of US...
Read MoreVideo: When will we see the mass deployment of autonomous cars?
Automated vehicles won’t slow down to gawk at the scene of an accident. Nor will they keep changing lanes in an effort to get to...
Read MoreWhy Amazon is revving up its investments in electric and self-driving cars
Amazon (AMZN – Get Report) is on a bit of an investment streak, and recently, it’s been focused on transportation....
Read MoreLetting your kids ride alone in an autonomous self-driving car: Ever or never?
There’s a lot of hand-wringing these days about letting your children be solo passengers in ridesharing cars run by the conventional...
Read MoreIt takes a village to build an autonomous vehicle
Many of the greatest breakthroughs in science and technology are inextricably associated with a specific name. Think Einstein and the...
Read MoreSelf-driving automobiles: How soon and how much?
Based on the wide range of published forecasts of when autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be on the street and how much they will cost, you...
Read MorePrinceton summit bolsters driverless cars for all, including the mobility marginalized
Professor Alain Kornhauser is a veritable force of nature when it comes to pursuing the cause of the mobility marginalized in the race...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars have long road to travel before they go public
Private autonomous vehicles will not hit public roads soon because of safety and cost, according to a senior executive at leading supplier...
Read MoreSemi-autonomous and always available: A peek into the near future of car rental
The world is inexorably moving to an era where personal mobility is connected, shared, electric, and ultimately autonomous. But that...
Read MoreWill self-driving cars make Tesla a $500 billion company?
In May 2019, the online investment blog Seeking Alpha (SA) published another article that dissed Tesla as a credible investment. Writing...
Read MoreDistracted driving will grow exponentially on the path to self-driving cars
All it takes is a brief moment of distraction and your world can change radically for the worse. When driving a car, a split-second...
Read MoreBlind trust, culture clashes and robot empathy: Mercedes-Benz on autonomous cars
At CES 2019, Mercedes-Benz revealed the Urbanetic autonomous shuttle, a futuristic proof-of-concept to illustrate the kind of work that is...
Read MoreHow Nissan’s ‘invisible-to-visible’ tech could pave the way for autonomous cars
Nissan’s engineers are working on more than just cars. At CES 2019, the Japanese automaker unveiled “invisible-to-visible” (I2V) tech that...
Read MoreAccessibility must be at the heart of new transport tech
New modes of transport and pioneering technologies should transform travel for older people and those with disabilities, the government...
Read MoreElon Musk’s hefty anti-LIDAR gamble undermines Tesla chances of survival
Readers have asked me to augment my remarks about Tesla’s Investor Autonomy Day, in which I had indicated Elon Musk decidedly and...
Read MoreHitting the Books: Autonomous cars will do more than drive you around
The idea that the ideal future involves fleets of shared-use autonomous cars does not acknowledge the true nature of how humans interact...
Read MoreA bet on Uber is a bet on self-driving
On Friday morning, Uber executives rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange as their 10-year-old, $82 billion company went...
Read MoreWhat do you think you know about self-driving cars? What the experts say may surprise you
Cars that completely drive themselves in showrooms a year from now? It’s a common misconception, consumer safety advocates and auto...
Read MoreElon Musk is wrong on robotaxi timing, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC he agrees with Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the future of mobility is electric, but he disagrees with...
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