2018 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...
Read MoreHow self-driving cars will make our cities more charming
Everyone’s trying to get ready for roads that will be filled with more and more self-driving cars. But just as the first cars were...
Read MoreCOMMENT – The uncertain road to driverless delivery
Autonomous vehicles are increasingly seen as at the heart of a radically different future landscape for transport solutions in the...
Read MoreRoad rage against the machines? Self-driving our way into 2019
Self-driving cars – or Autos, as I hope we’ll call them – passed several important milestones in 2018, and they will pass several more in...
Read More32 hours in Chandler, Arizona, the self-driving capital of the world
THE PARKING LOT at the Walmart on West Chandler Boulevard is packed as the sun wanes on Chandler, a languid suburb of Phoenix....
Read MoreA fair criticism of Tesla — we need more Tesla taxis!
I have watched every single Elon Musk interview I can find. People often ask the same questions of him (which is unfortunate since there...
Read MoreCongress needs to tighten up AV legislation (opinion)
Self-driving cars are the future. An innovation that is projected to be an $800 billion business by 2035 — double the size of the...
Read MoreHow V2X will affect the future of automobiles
“Can you hear me now?” I think many of us can remember Verizon’s well-known advertising campaign from a few years ago. While communication...
Read MoreDriverless future a long way off
“Without drivers to pay, to carry, or to protect, autonomous vehicles will be much less expensive to produce than conventional delivery...
Read MoreRiding in Waymo One, the Google spinoff’s first self-driving taxi service
Waymo, the self-driving subsidiary of Alphabet, launched its first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service here in the Phoenix suburbs...
Read MoreWaymo’s service launch highlights its lead — and how much farther it has to go
There’s a decent amount of fine print attached to Waymo’s launch of a commercial self-driving service in Phoenix, and little...
Read MoreJourney: the picture history of the driverless car
For nearly 100 years, researchers have chased the same goals....
Read MoreWhy autonomous vehicles won’t reduce our dependence on cars in cities
The technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is progressing rapidly, but have we really thought through how they’ll work in reality?...
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 MoreSlow & steady: A case for driverless shuttles
As I’ve engaged in conversations about autonomous vehicles – and not just with engineers and industry experts, but with everyday citizens...
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