Self-driving cars will destroy a lot of jobs—they’ll also create a lot
Ars Technica–Aug. 24, 2018
The center is home to dozens of self-driving cars that are being used to offer rides to participants in Waymo’s early rider program. Waymo’s blog …
Carmera’s human-driven sensors could pave the way for self-driving …
CNET–Aug. 23, 2018
An obvious setback for self-driving cars is the lack of eyeballs for noticing things like road construction or pedestrians. That’s why startup …
Carmera, the mapping startup for autonomous vehicles, raises $20 …
Highly Cited–TechCrunch–Aug. 23, 2018
Highly Cited–TechCrunch–Aug. 23, 2018
Driverless cars haven’t arrived instantaneously, but they’re well on …
Mashable–Aug. 21, 2018
Yes, it’s true: The promise of self-driving cars zooming around while their human operators doze off, read, or watch movies is not quite here yet.
The Future of Cars Is Electric, Autonomous, and Shared—Here’s How …
Singularity Hub–Aug. 23, 2018
This week, Lyft announced they’d hit the milestone of their 5,000th self-driving commercial ride. The company has a fleet of autonomous cars in …
Ford Releases Safety Assessment Report on Autonomous Vehicles
Wheels.ca–Aug. 24, 2018
As Ford pursues its goal of developing a self-driving vehicle for deployment in 2021, the company released a report that outlines its approach to …
Teaching self-driving cars to read minds
The Boston Globe–Aug. 24, 2018
Everyone who drives a car is a kind of mind reader, constantly guessing what nearby pedestrians are going to do next. Is that woman at the …
Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur
New York Times–Aug. 19, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — After Dara Khosrowshahi took over as Uber’s chief executive last August, he considered shutting the company’s …
Wanted in China: Detailed Maps for 30 Million Self-Driving Cars
Bloomberg–Aug. 22, 2018
That was until she took charge of the business at NavInfo Co. and saw how they are essential to self-driving cars, with demand that could reach …
Self-Driving Cars Should Look Down, Not Just Ahead
WIRED–Aug. 20, 2018
Self-Driving Cars Should Look Down, Not Just Ahead … Autonomous vehiclesuse a suite of sensors to monitor the world around them. Most of …
Will self-driving cars be saviours or bane of cities?
Ethical Corporation Magazine–Aug. 24, 2018
A range of solutions is needed to make urban travel more sustainable, with one possible answer being autonomous vehicles (AVs), the new …
Driverless cars are coming to ‘innovative and progressive’ Arlington …
Dallas News (blog)–Aug. 22, 2018
Autonomous vehicles are coming to the streets of another Dallas-Fort Worth city. The city of Arlington approved a one-year contract Tuesday …
$3.2 Billion Autonomous Car Startup Zoox Suddenly Fired Its CEO and …
Inc.com–Aug. 23, 2018
Tim Kentley-Klay has been ousted as CEO of high-profile self-driving car startup Zoox. Kentley-Klay was voted out by Zoox’s board, Bloomberg …
Waymo wants to test its self-driving car tech in China
CNNMoney–Aug. 24, 2018
The driverless car division of Google’s parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL), has registered a company in Shanghai called Huimo Business …
Forget Working From Home, Autonomous Vehicles Will Drive A Boom …
Forbes–Aug. 20, 2018
With self-driving cars poised to storm the streets in the coming years, disrupting everything from the auto industry to mass transit, business …
Apple Patents Autonomous Car Alerts Because Humans Are …
Inverse–Aug. 23, 2018
Researcher Andrew Ng told Bloomberg last week that autonomous cars could require stricter rules on jaywalking to avoid accidents, perhaps …
The founder of $3.2 billion startup Zoox says that he was ousted as …
Business Insider–Aug. 22, 2018
Tim Kentley-Klay has been ousted as CEO of high-profile self-driving car startup Zoox. Kentley-Klay was voted out by Zoox’s board, Bloomberg reported. He had …
This War-Proven Radar Tech Lets Self-Driving Cars See the Road …
RoadandTrack.com–Aug. 20, 2018
It’s a problem faced every winter by millions of drivers: You come out to your car in the morning, or after a long day of work, only to find that a …
V2X is Here to Stay—Now Let’s Use It for Autonomous Cars
Electronic Design–Aug. 22, 2018
Despite the controversy, the automotive industry continues to invest heavily in autonomous vehicles. Most of the discussion on the technologies …
Can Waymo Self-Driving Cars Help Fix Phoenix’s Public Transit?
WIRED–Jul. 31, 2018
Those building the technology like to remind the public that self-driving cars are more than vehicles shuttling you around—that they’re a lifestyle …
Valley Metro experiments with driverless cars through Waymo …
Local Source–AZCentral.com–Jul. 31, 2018
Local Source–AZCentral.com–Jul. 31, 2018
Driverless–Car Legislation Is Unsafe at This Speed
Wall Street Journal–Aug. 22, 2018
Autonomous–vehicle manufacturers argue that completely driverless cars would be safer than conventional cars, in that they would eliminate …
Apple has an idea for self-driving cars to tell riders what they’re about …
CNBC–Aug. 21, 2018
Apple has an idea for self-driving cars that might make riders more comfortable about the idea of the car driving itself. A new Apple patent …
How Will Autonomous Cars Respond to Emergency Vehicles?
Forbes–Jul. 31, 2018
As we get closer to the widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles, there’s still discussions about what sensors will be required to make …
Will self-driving cars kill parking?
TechCrunch–Aug. 2, 2018
Some people have postulated that autonomous ridesharing cars will never need to park and cities of the future will not need street parking, …
Uber dumps self-driving truck division to focus on autonomous cars
The INQUIRER–Aug. 1, 2018
The company achieved the world’s first commercial shipment delivered by a self-driving truck in 2016, with a vehicle that drove 120 miles along …
Maps for 30 million self-driving cars needed
The Straits Times–Aug. 24, 2018
The mainland’s autonomous vehicle market could be worth US$500 billion (S$685 billion) by 2030, according to McKinsey & Co. Whoever …
The self-driving cars hitting the road in Texas today are unlike any we …
The Verge–Jul. 30, 2018
There’s a very different-looking kind of self-driving car on the streets of Texas today. Instead of the spotless white look of the autonomous cars …
AI Weekly: For self-driving cars, the path to public acceptance is …
VentureBeat–Jul. 27, 2018
Self-driving cars have transformative potential. They’re poised to reduce traffic fatalities, ease congestion, and even decrease carbon emissions …
To Make Self-Driving Cars Safe, We Also Need Better Roads and …
Harvard Business Review–Aug. 14, 2018
The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous …
How a billion-dollar autonomous vehicle startup lost its way
The Star Online–Aug. 22, 2018
Quanergy Systems Inc found itself in the centre of a sudden frenzy over self-driving cars in 2014. It makes lidar, which bounces lasers off …
Not so fast: rethinking our approach to driverless cars
TechRadar–Jul. 28, 2018
Autonomous vehicles are big business. So it’s no surprise that some of the highest-valued technology companies in the world are looking to get …
Autonomous vehicles are coming. Now comes the hard part.
CNNMoney–Aug. 14, 2018
Self-driving cars are increasingly common sights on roads in California, Arizona, and a few other pioneering locales. They’re still something of …
Ford says slow and steady will win the self-driving car race
The Verge–Aug. 15, 2018
Ford doesn’t want to be the first company to offer self-driving cars to the public; it wants to be the brand most synonymous with the word “trust.
Could this AI camera be the breakthrough autonomous cars need?
Siliconrepublic.com–Aug. 20, 2018
A team from Stanford University has developed a new AI camera it claims could revolutionise the fledgling autonomous car industry. Trying to …
Autonomous vehicles won’t only kill jobs. They will create them, too
CNBC–Aug. 11, 2018
When Will Mouat, 41, heard there might be a career opportunity in self-driving cars, he jumped. Even though he did not have an engineering …
The News Wheel
Mapping Startup for Autonomous Vehicles Raises $20M
FenderBender–Aug. 24, 2018
Its main product is the Carmera autonomous map, a high-definition map for autonomous vehicle customers like automakers, suppliers and …
Pony.ai Racing To Top Of Chinese Self-Driving Startups For Funds …
CleanTechnica–Aug. 24, 2018
Pony.ai is a Chinese level 4 autonomous vehicle startup. At present, it has a HQ in Beijing, an office in Fremont, California, and another office in …
This military tech could finally help self-driving cars master snow
Ars Technica–Aug. 21, 2018
Until now, just about every variation of autonomous vehicle we’ve come across has done that through a combination of highly accurate GPS, …
Waymo, Alphabet’s Self-Driving Unit, Steers Into China
Wall Street Journal–Aug. 24, 2018
Self-driving cars also rely on high-definition mapping, which is strictly controlled in China. The only companies licensed to provide advanced …
Consumers Say ‘Not In My Backyard’ For Real-World Autonomous Car …
Forbes–Aug. 16, 2018
11 April 2018, Unterschleißheim, Germany: The words ‘Autonomous Driving Test Vehicle‘ written at the back of an autonomously driving BMW …
Autonomous Vehicle Awareness Rising, Acceptance Declining …
Highly Cited–PR Newswire (press release)–Aug. 16, 2018
Highly Cited–PR Newswire (press release)–Aug. 16, 2018
5 semi-autonomous cars took a road test and barely passed
Mashable–Aug. 9, 2018
Don’t start planning for your self-driving commute anytime soon. Human drivers are still very necessary as a recent road test for five cars‘ …
How driverless cars could potentially help with affordable housing, I …
Summit Daily News–Aug. 24, 2018
Our area will not be among the first to see the driverless car revolution take place. Areas such as Phoenix, San Fransisco and Atlanta have both …
Uber Parks Its Self-Driving Truck Project, Saying It Will Push For …
NPR–Jul. 31, 2018
With the new shift, Uber says that where it can, it will move employees from the trucking unit to work on self-driving cars. It will also continue …
Uber’s self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars
Highly Cited–TechCrunch–Jul. 30, 2018
Highly Cited–TechCrunch–Jul. 30, 2018
Trust critical to autonomous vehicle adoption
Asset Finance International (press release) (blog)–Aug. 24, 2018
In the race for self-driving cars, building consumer trust when it comes to safety is just as important as building the technology, according to …
Autonomous Vehicles Fall Into The Trough Of Disillusionment … But …
Forbes–Aug. 15, 2018
Autonomous vehicles have plunged into the Trough of Disillusionment! When I say it like that, it seems like the end is near, that the billions of …
Sharp Growth In Autonomous Car Market Value Predicted But May Be …
Forbes–Aug. 13, 2018
While recent surveys reveal fear of driving or riding in self-driving vehicles is on the rise, a new study predicts the value of the global …
Autonomous cars would navigate Sacramento streets with a backup …
Sacramento Bee–Aug. 1, 2018
Sacramento has signed a deal with a Silicon Valley firm to use downtown streets as a testing ground for autonomous vehicles that will be …
Sacramento to work with tech company to test driverless cars
Local Source–KCRA Sacramento–Aug. 1, 2018
Local Source–KCRA Sacramento–Aug. 1, 2018
Sacramento Eases Into the Self-Driving Scene
WIRED–Aug. 1, 2018
Because self-driving cars are far from ready to handle all road situations, remote-driving is the not-so-secret secret of the autonomous vehicle …
Uber pushes for self-driving cars after losing $900 million
Softonic–Aug. 24, 2018
The company’s Advanced Technologies Group division focuses on autonomousvehicles and self-driving technology. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi …
The State of Autonomous Cars
PocketNow (press release) (blog)–Aug. 19, 2018
While we won’t be having any flying cars soon, autonomous cars are no longer a topic for the future. With big names working relentlessly at …
The Top 10 Places Self-Driving Car Passengers Go
Forbes–Jul. 28, 2018
Health Salon or Spa. Autonomous vehicles might elevate this experience, making passengers feel more relaxed, cared for, and special.