Self-Driving Car Developers Should Put Pedestrians First
WIRED–Sep. 15, 2018
But autonomous vehicle promoters are undeterred. AI entrepreneur Andrew Ng contends that self-driving cars will be safe for pedestrians when …
Autonomous cars mean a new mindset for motoring
Raconteur–Sep. 13, 2018
After catching the 8am Virgin Hyperloop One to Edinburgh – the 414-mile journey takes just 50 minutes – another of those autonomous cars, …
Autonomous cars need to think more like humans, less like machines
Fast Company–Sep. 11, 2018
From the other direction, a self-driving car had a green light, but didn’t move. Even though it was obvious to human drivers that the person on …
Self-driving cars face a long road to becoming transportation’s future
VentureBeat–Aug. 25, 2018
Self-driving cars are the future of transportation. According to some reports, 10 million vehicles will hit the road by 2020. They’ll ferry …
Don’t believe the naysayers: Self-driving cars are already here in …
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.
Waymo advisor on the road ahead for driverless cars
CNBC–Aug. 28, 2018
Waymo advisor on the road ahead for driverless cars … General Motors executive, discusses the future of autonomous driving technology.
Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet swells 27% in four months
TechCrunch–Sep. 11, 2018
Apple keeps adding autonomous vehicles to its test fleet in California, boosting its ranks 27 percent since May, according to records from the …
The No-Tech Safety Solution For Driverless Cars: People
Forbes–Aug. 26, 2018
“Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles: Traffic Safety Issues for States,” released earlier this month by the nonprofit safety organization that …
Apple reports first autonomous vehicle collision in California
CNBC–Aug. 31, 2018
Apple said that its first autonomous vehicle crash in California occurred last week. The accident during an autonomous driving test took place at …
How Nvidia is using its autonomous car platform to drive into health care
VentureBeat–Sep. 13, 2018
Nvidia is using the underlying architecture of its Drive autonomous vehicle platform to enable product development in other verticals with AI …
BMW flew its autonomous concept car on a cargo plane around the …
Mashable–1 hour ago
As I approached San Francisco International Airport, my expectations for BMW’s new concept car were as big as the looming Boeing 777F …
How do you get people to trust autonomous vehicles? This company is …
Washington Post–Aug. 29, 2018
One of the biggest challenges facing car companies developing driverless vehicleshas little to do with sophisticated robotics or laser …
Oklahoma City stores will deliver groceries with autonomous vehicles
Engadget–Sep. 14, 2018
Next year, Oklahoma City residents will be able to have their groceries delivered to them by an autonomous vehicle. Udelv announced this …
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 …
Self-Driving Cars Should Look Down, Not Just Ahead
WIRED–Aug. 20, 2018
Autonomous vehicles use a suite of sensors to monitor the world around … But the final component mix that will turn cars into fully autonomous …
Driverless Cars Will Dramatically Change Where And How We Live
Forbes–Sep. 13, 2018
Driverless cars aren’t coming. They’re already here. Much of he technology has been around for decades and many features are available on …
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 …
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 …
5G will enable autonomous vehicles to become four-wheeled clouds
TechRepublic–Sep. 14, 2018
CEO Synchronoss Technologies Glenn Lurie tells TechRepublic’s Teena Maddox how autonomous cars will communicate through 5G.
Balky start for driverless cars in Connecticut
CT Post–Sep. 14, 2018
Self-driving cars could be on the road in large numbers sooner than anyone expected — possibly by 2021 — even if public support for …
Toyota Joins Uber on Its Tortuous Journey to Self-Driving Cars
WIRED–Aug. 29, 2018
If you’re mystified, well, so is everyone else in the autonomous vehicle game. About everything, really. Questions range from the technical (How …
Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber for self-driving cars
Reuters–Aug. 28, 2018
T) will invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both …
Toyota Investing $500 Million in Uber in Driverless–Car Pact
Highly Cited–Wall Street Journal–Aug. 28, 2018
Highly Cited–Wall Street Journal–Aug. 28, 2018
Driverless cars could be here faster than you think. Here’s how SLO is …
The San Luis Obispo Tribune–Sep. 1, 2018
The future of driverless cars is coming and, perhaps, faster than some might think: Robot drivers are expected to share public roads within a few …
How Self-Driving Cars Could Ruin the American City
The Atlantic–Sep. 6, 2018
Making use of technology that’s a bit like a multi-sensory echolocation, the car turned smoothly out of the parking lot. It navigated through …
‘I hate them’: Locals reportedly are frustrated with Alphabet’s self …
CNBC–Aug. 29, 2018
Alphabet’s self-driving cars are annoying their neighbors in Chandler, Arizona. More than a dozen locals who work near Waymo’s office gave …
Self-driving delivery startup Nuro releases its voluntary safety report
The Verge–Sep. 13, 2018
The driverless vehicle is “lighter than a passenger vehicle, narrower and more nimble, and operates at slower speeds,” the company says.
Autonomous vehicle startup Udelv inks grocery delivery deal in …
VentureBeat–Sep. 13, 2018
A select few grocery shoppers in Oklahoma City will soon have their perishables delivered via self-driving car. Autonomous delivery vehicle …
Volvo wants to build a future in which you can’t wait to commute to work
Digital Trends–Sep. 14, 2018
More than anything, the firm’s designers and executives want to start a sincere conversation about how self-driving cars will fit into our society, …
Humans—Not Technology—Are the Leading Cause of Self-Driving …
Fortune–Aug. 29, 2018
Self-driving cars will eventually hit the roads. But it might still be humans we’ll need to worry about when that happens. In a study of vehicle …
Self-driving cars: New book looks at how we’re racing toward the …
USA TODAY–Aug. 27, 2018
The drama, ambition and genius characterizing the race to develop self-driving carszoom into sharper focus in “Autonomy: The Quest to Build …
How Far Can Driverless Cars Take Us?
City Journal–Sep. 9, 2018
Autonomous vehicles pose a particular challenge for dense cities like New … Standard and Poor’s predicts that driverless cars will make up a 2 …
Volvo’s 360c concept has softened my cynicism about autonomous cars
The Verge–Sep. 6, 2018
When you think about it, autonomous cars don’t ever need to exist. They’re not inevitable. The internet and the web? If they hadn’t come about …
Self-driving cars will be safe, we’re testing them in a massive AI Sim
The Register–Aug. 17, 2018
The British government this week unveiled plans for an ambitious AI simulator to be used to test self-driving cars. It’s part of a stated mission to …
No self-driving cars coming anytime soon – The Wall Street Journal
BizNews–Sep. 13, 2018
DUBLIN – Some technology companies, including Google, Uber, and Tesla, have been pushing the narrative that self-driving cars are right …
People don’t trust autonomous vehicles, so Jaguar added googly eyes
Fast Company–Sep. 6, 2018
As many as 73% of Americans don’t trust autonomous cars, according to a … solution: Put huge googly eyes on the front of its prototype vehicle.
Self-driving snacks? Grocery delivery becomes a test of autonomous …
MIT Technology Review–Aug. 27, 2018
A partnership between the startups AutoX and GrubMarket will transport produce and snacks to your doorstep via autonomous vehicle—if you …
Safety would take a back seat if Senate passes bill on driverless cars …
Salon–Sep. 15, 2018
Champions of driverless cars say they would improve mobility for disabled people and save lives by eliminating human errors that are the …
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 …
One of Apple’s Autonomous Cars Just Crashed, and (Surprise) It Was …
Futurism–Sep. 4, 2018
FLAWLESS NO MORE. They’ve been on the road for more than a year, but Apple’s autonomous vehicles (AV) just ended their collision-free …
Volkswagen in talks on self-driving car standards: Report
TIMESOFINDIA (satire) (press release) (blog)–Sep. 15, 2018
HAMBURG/PARIS: Germany’s Volkswagen is in talks with other carmakers to set common standards for self-driving vehicle technology, …
If self-driving cars want to transform cities, they’ll have to figure out …
Boston.com–Sep. 12, 2018
Most human drivers would agree that Boston can be a difficult city to drive in. So you might excuse autonomous vehicles for running into a few …
GM’s Plan to Test Autonomous Cars in New York City Seems to Have …
Jalopnik–Sep. 10, 2018
Just short of a year ago, General Motors garnered widespread national attention by announcing it planned to start testing autonomous cars on …
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 …
Toyota researching passenger safety of self-driving cars
Autoweek–Aug. 27, 2018
But engineers are only beginning to understand how bodies might be flung around inside autonomous vehicles when the “driver” is checking …
Land Rover develops virtual eyes to get others to trust driverless cars
NEWS.com.au–Aug. 28, 2018
Trust is being billed as one of the biggest issues with driverless cars. Ford recently said that for autonomous vehicles to become a reality they …
City of Vancouver prepares for driverless cars in 2040 Transportation …
CBC.ca–Aug. 26, 2018
The City of Vancouver is working toward a transportation plan for 2040, and a big part of that is preparing for self-driving cars to hit the roads.
PlayStation creator backs start-up that uses ‘theoretical neuroscience …
CNBC–Aug. 16, 2018
Japanese start-up Ascent Robotics wants to create software for self-driving carsand sell it to vehicle-makers and equipment manufacturers.
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 …
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 …
In One Texas City, You Can Soon Request an Autonomous Vehicle on …
Transport Topics Online–Aug. 22, 2018
Transport Topics Online–Aug. 22, 2018
Perils of driverless cars
Forbes India–Sep. 11, 2018
In early September, California’s road driving authority confirmed that a self-driving car owned by Apple was involved in an accident on August …