Getting cities ready for driverless vehicles
Driverless mobility will fundamentally change the way both people and goods move around cities. City governments face important challenges...
Read MoreAmid Tesla crash concerns Waymo’s new co-CEOs say no shortcuts to safe autonomy
Waymo’s new co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov say Alphabet’s self-driving powerhouse is sticking to a safety-conscious roadmap to...
Read MoreWaymo’s leadership shift spotlights self-driving car challenges
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car subsidiary, has reshuffled its top executive lineup. John Krafcik, Waymo’s CEO since 2015, announced on...
Read MoreThe robots are coming for Deliveroo’s riders
When Ocado, the UK technology group, unveiled its vision for the future of grocery home delivery last week, it sounded a little alarming....
Read MoreHow electric, self-driving cars and ride-hailing will transform the car industry
When GM’s very first car, the Chevrolet Classic 6, appeared on Detroit’s streets in 1912, it ran on gasoline. More than a century later,...
Read MoreAutonomous driving systems slash EV driving range by 25 percent
The microprocessors, cameras, lidars, and radars needed to let cars drive themselves consume so much electric power that they can trim the...
Read MoreAchieving trust in autonomous vehicles requires trustworthy electronics
Autonomous vehicle technology is almost ready for widespread deployment—but people aren’t ready for autonomous technology. This is because...
Read MoreThe recent Tesla car crash is proof that self-driving cars are still a long way off
The recent crash of a Tesla car in the United States, in which two people died, has reignited debate about the capabilities and safety of...
Read MoreNot many realize that there is crossover tech that crisscrosses self-driving cars and human-driven cars
There’s an old proverb that dates back to at least the year 1670 and declares that sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander. Say...
Read MoreHow this company has beaten Tesla with the world’s first autonomous electric truck
When asked which company was the first creating an autonomous electric freight truck, most people will be wrong. And when asked which...
Read MoreCommentary: Self-driving buses and delivery robots welcomed but who do we blame if AI goes rogue in Singapore?
As AI-powered systems become increasingly prevalent in our lives, it’s time to rethink the way criminal laws are applied to them, say...
Read MoreWhy self-driving cars: From horseless to driverless
When I first helped the Autopilot team at Tesla in launching our Full Self-Driving beta release last year, I had never felt so close to...
Read MoreBird’s-eye view to provide self-driving cars with some needed computational omnipresence
When driving a car, you could really benefit from having a bird’s-eye view of the driving scene. Let’s explore why....
Read MoreWhat will it take for us to trust driverless tech?
Since we first started discussing driverless tech, a lot has changed. It’s no longer all that difficult to imagine autonomous vehicles on...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles don’t need to be mandatory
Before I start making my case here, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: autonomous vehicle tech isn’t ready. CleanTechnica articles...
Read MorePrecipice edginess when a self-driving car drives down a super-steep slope like these top ten U.S. vertical-drop streets
Have you ever been driving and found yourself at the top edge of a really steep incline? I’m talking about a monster of a dizzying slope....
Read MorePlus and NVIDIA deal gives indications of our autonomous truck future
I’ve written before that autonomous vehicles will be one of the most powerful, most influential new technologies we see in our lifetimes....
Read MoreAurora’s plan to catch Waymo in robot trucks, then taxis
On Feb. 11, about a month after closing on the acquisition of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, or ATG, the self-driving-car startup...
Read MoreHyperdrive Daily: Self-driving’s trough of disillusionment continues
The year 2020 was supposed to herald the arrival of self-driving cars. Instead, we got a global pandemic and growing recognition that...
Read MoreUsing bountiful blurring to keep self-driving cars from telling all
Have you ever taken a picture and realized that a person in the snapshot appears blurry due to your camera being out of focus? I’m sure...
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