Silicon Valley is resetting expectations for self-driving cars and settling in for years of more work.
After years of hype, billions of dollars of investments and promises that people would be commuting to work in self-driving cars by now,...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars offer chance to re-imagine sound systems
As auto manufacturers continue developing tomorrow’s self-driving cars, there’s a parallel design process taking shape....
Read MoreOp-ed: Alphabet’s Waymo warns that describing vehicles as ‘self-driving’ before they’re ready can lead to unsafe driver behavior
Yesterday’s science fiction is a real transportation option today for a growing segment of the population. I’m referring specifically to...
Read MoreOpinion: It’s time for Elon Musk to start telling the truth about autonomous driving
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has shown that he has an influential platform by roiling the cryptocurrency market with his...
Read MoreInfusing a dose of human driver skepticism into the AI driving systems of self-driving cars
Are you skeptical about most things? Maybe you are rarely skeptical. In that case, it might be that you take life as it seems to exist and...
Read MoreIn it for the long haul: Autonomous trucking startup Plus goes public via SPAC
Autonomous trucking startup Plus (formerly known as Plus.ai) is a company I’ve begun to follow closely. While much of the hype...
Read MoreThe costly pursuit of self-driving cars continues on. And on. And on.
It was seven years ago when Waymo discovered that spring blossoms made its self-driving cars get twitchy on the brakes. So did soap...
Read MoreFrom driverless cars to robotic warehouses, China looks to automation to solve population issues
GUANGZHOU, China — Qin Jiahao has been working at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s logistics operations for around six years. Now a huge...
Read MoreSolving big city murder cases and other crimes via AI and self-driving cars
The nationwide murder rate is heading in the wrong direction. It is decidedly on the rise, rather than on the decline....
Read MoreLooking ahead to autonomous trucking
Although autonomous trucks are still in their infancy, the continued development and eventual deployment of these vehicles represents a...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars might never be able to drive themselves
The California Department of Motor Vehicles said this week it’s reviewing whether Tesla is telling people that its cars are self-driving...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars pose crucial question: Who to blame in a crash
A debate over who to blame — or sue — when a self-driven car hits someone is holding up legislation the industry says it needs...
Read MorePedestrians said to need ‘reprogramming’ for the benefit of self-driving cars
When growing up, most children are taught the rather simple but altogether life-saving idea that they should look both ways before...
Read MoreThere’s money to be made in driverless logistics
When the concept of autonomous driving is raised, most people’s first thought is for the driverless passenger vehicles which will come to...
Read MoreNHTSA misses opportunity to say there’s no autonomous car yet
Lately, we’ve heard of more crashes that might involve Autopilot than we would like to report. A guy in desperate need of attention...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars dealing with those barefaced acts of repeated brake-checking by human drivers
We’ve all been brake-checked at one time or another. Brake checking refers to the notion that a car ahead of you will pump on its brakes...
Read MoreAutomated driving classifications are updated, but Level 3 remains tricky
The Society of Automotive Engineers last week published an update to its widely used six-level automated driving taxonomy. SAE worked...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars will help soften the blow when asking loved ones to retire their keys
Most of us take for granted that we can drive a car. The driving act seems to be ostensibly trivial. You get behind the wheel, turn on the...
Read MoreAutonomous delivery could be around the corner for millions of Americans
A $2.75 billion investment by Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and other institutional investors into General Motors’ (NYSE: GM) self-driving...
Read MoreA cybercriminal hijacks an autonomous vehicle. Who’s responsible for a crash?
Vehicle manufacturers are likely going to be on the hook for damages following autonomous car crashes in which no human being is...
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