Self-Driving Cars

For human drivers, vision is king. But what drivers see depends on how they move the car: Braking, accelerating and steering change the car’s position and thereby the driver’s view.

With self-driving cars, societies can redesign their traffic systems. From the crosswalk to overall traffic design—it is mundane situations that raise really hard questions. Extreme situations are a distraction.

On Sunday March 18, an Uber SUV hit and killed a pedestrian in the Arizona city of Tempe. What made the death of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg different was that the vehicle that killed her was driving itself.

China issued licenses to auto makers on Thursday that allow self-driving vehicles to be road tested for the first time.

California's DMV is expected to approve the rules allowing completely driverless cars on Monday.

The self-driving Tesla Model S was travelling at 65 mph when it crashed on a California freeway.

General Motors is first major automaker planning to mass-produce driverless cars lacking a steering wheel.

Alphabet's Waymo also sought a public apology from Uber in a lawsuit about self-driving technology.

MIT researchers develop AI system that analyzes light patterns on the floor to view blind spots.

What will become of parking lots? Gas stations? Traffic signals? Society stands to look much different in just a few decades.

Morgan Stanley analysts estimated Alphabet's self-driving car division to be worth at least $70bn, based on growth forecasts up to 2030.

Baidu and German automaker BMW said back in November that they would end their joint research on self-driving cars because of differences in opinion.

On Friday, Uber suspended its pilot program in the three cities after the crash, in which a human-driven vehicle "failed to yield" to an Uber vehicle while making a turn.

The most important metric—miles per intervention—was just 0.8 miles.

A pair of $250,000 autonomous buses are part of California's first pilot program for a self-driving vehicle without a steering wheel or human operator.

Most of the specially equipped versions of the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle will be used by San Francisco-based Lyft, which will test them in its ride-sharing fleet in several states.

iPhone-maker declares its interest in the future of driverless vehicles with a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The beleaguered phone maker is one of several companies set to test self-driving cars on Canadian roads.

An elevated set of rules are needed for autonomous vehicles to share the road and make life-and-death decisions for us.

A powerful suite of technologies has been built around the Tesla Vision software.

If a self-driving car is far less likely to crash, should humans be allowed to drive?

Self-driving vehicles might become as good at driving as the average human and thus save more lives overall.

A quirk in Finnish law means 'robot buses' are allowed on Helsinki streets.

Uber's plan to replace its 1 million drivers with robots is underway.

Ford says mass-market car won't have steering wheel and can be hailed like a taxi.

Tesla Model X Autopilot system assisted a driver suffering from a medical emergency.

Singapore is set to test a "mobility-on-demand" transport concept.

The firm's mapping project would reduce reliance on Google Maps.

Uber's hybrid Ford Fusion will collect mapping data as well as test the potential of autonomous vehicles.

An adhesive layer acts like flypaper to stick a pedestrian to a self-driving car in a collision.