New Rules Could Finally Clear the Way for Self-Driving Cars
WIRED–Mar. 26, 2020
The tweaks would give self-driving vehicle developers some—but not all—of the changes they say they need to run fully autonomous vehicles in US cities. In a …
BMW reinvents the wheel for autonomous cars
CarAdvice–2 hours ago
German car maker BMW appears to be in the process of inventing a collapsible steering wheel for autonomous cars. Patent drawings obtained by a BMW …
System trains driverless cars in simulation before they hit the …
MIT News–Mar. 23, 2020
A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic … Control systems, or “controllers,” for autonomous vehicles largely rely on …
Shenzhen to test self-driving cars with passengers
Asia Times–7 hours ago
Shenzhen is reportedly planning to green light road tests of autonomous vehicles carrying passengers as part of ongoing efforts to build a smart transport system …
There’s A Baby Sea Lion On Highway 101, What Would A Self …
Forbes–Mar. 27, 2020
Maybe there is a sofa that fell onto the freeway and the first driverless car that spots it would quickly broadcast to any nearby self-driving cars to be wary of the …
NHTSA revising safety rules to adapt to autonomous cars
Autoblog (blog)–Mar. 23, 2020
In self-driving vehicles that will carry passengers, that means changes like applying crash protection standards written for front passengers to the driver as well.
Lyft Boosting Its Self-Driving Program
Forbes–Mar. 19, 2020
The company continued testing autonomous vehicles in 2019 when they had a total of 19 self-driving cars on the streets of California. According to the data …
An Unlikely Coronavirus Hero? Self-Driving Cars
Popular Mechanics–Mar. 11, 2020
Makers of autonomous vehicles have long been selling the benefits driver-free transportation. But it took a devastating global pandemic to provide a compelling, …
Driverless Cars Have Arrived, and They All Look Like Loaves …
Bloomberg–Mar. 13, 2020
Do automakers investing billions in the self-driving cars of tomorrow risk repeating the same mistake they made with electric cars a decade ago? Cutting-edge …
Despite setbacks, coronavirus could hasten the adoption of …
VentureBeat–Mar. 20, 2020
This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the … in some cases, self-driving cars and delivery robots might minimize the risk of …