Aptiv CTO calls 2021 ‘overly aggressive’ for AV debuts
Targets by automakers such as Volvo Cars, Audi, Hyundai and Ford Motor to have Level 4 autonomous cars on the road by 2021 are very...
Read MoreD.C. is not ready for Ford’s driverless vehicle testing
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced last year that the District would be the corporate testing ground for Ford’s driverless...
Read More5 profound lessons in the mobility space in 2018
Looking back, like so many of us are wont to do at the end of the Gregorian calendar year, 2018 was a year like so many: ups, downs,...
Read MoreAre driverless cars a threat or benefit to society?
Driverless cars are the new sensation in both the tech and transport sectors. While the cars themselves may not yet be here with us yet,...
Read MoreHere’s why 2019 could be the year that an autonomous vehicle delivers your pizza and groceries
Domino’s Pizza is leading the charge in an unlikely trend of partnerships between food companies and autonomous vehicle...
Read MoreUber employees working on self-driving cars feel their cars are safer but their careers are stuck, according to leaked employee survey
Uber is sending its self-driving cars back on the public road this week in Pittsburgh, with a whole new set of revamped safety procedures...
Read MoreThe CEO of Argo AI, a self-driving startup backed by Ford, reveals the one thing that is absolutely necessary for an autonomous driving company to survive
The past few years have been good for entrepreneurs who were early to the self-driving-car game. In the aftermath of the financial crisis...
Read MoreDriverless cars will be the biggest investment write-off ever
In December 2015, I published an article on Seeking Alpha titled “The most overhyped story of 2015 — and 2016: Driverless...
Read MoreThe future is hybrid: Why we need a control tower for autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles and services are coming as early as next month or late in the next decade, depending on who you ask. Ford, Waymo and...
Read MoreSlow and steady could win the self-driving car race
The bulk of the attention in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space has been focused on Alphabet’s Waymo and GM, which will likely be the...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars might still need human drivers
For all the talk of cars without drivers, the deployment of autonomous vehicles might still require humans controlling them from a...
Read MoreWill Santa have a driverless sleigh by next Christmas?
For those of us who will soon head over the river and through the woods to meet up with family, the holidays mean travel. Last year,...
Read MoreLast-minute gift guide for (current and aspiring) self-driving car nerds
When people find out that I cover self-driving cars, they are almost always super curious to learn more about the subject but often...
Read MoreFormer Google engineer, once barred from autonomous-driving industry, says he just completed first cross-country self-driving car trip
Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of a now-settled lawsuit between Alphabet self-driving car company Waymo and Uber, claims...
Read More2018 was the year self-driving cars hit a roadblock
It’s been a long day. As you ride home from the office, you start to nod off. You close your eyes as the self-driving car merges...
Read MoreOne of Tesla’s early rivals reveals the fastest way to get self-driving vehicles on the road safely
The founder of one of Tesla’s early rivals, Fisker Automotive, is back with a vehicle that could demonstrate the benefits of...
Read MoreDoes AI truly learn and why we need to stop overhyping deep learning
AI today is described in breathless terms as computer algorithms that use silicon incarnations of our organic brains to learn and reason...
Read MoreThere’s no such thing as self-driving cars yet, and a spate of scary incidents could hurt their chances of ever existing
Autonomous vehicles promise safer roads and more freedom. But they’re not ready to drive themselves yet....
Read MoreThe long, winding and still evolving path toward automated driving
All within a few days, Waymo launched the first commercial self-driving robotic taxi service in Arizona, Tesla disclosed that Autopilot...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles are likely to be a slowly-arriving commodity
My wife recently needed a new car, and unlike me she seeks only basic transportation. I like exotic electric cars or plug-in hybrids with...
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