All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 31 2016 // Self-driving cars are getting closer by the day, but they won’t be coming from hacking phenomenon George Hotz.Hotz, the first person to jailbreak an iPhone and a vagabond of the world’s top tech companies, has...
Oct 25 2016 // A tractor trailer full of beer drove itself down Colorado’s I-25 last week with nobody behind the wheel. Uber Technologies Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV teamed up on the delivery, which they said is the first time...
Oct 21 2016 // Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to equip all of its vehicles with self-driving hardware has intensified competition among rival camps of technology and auto companies over what equipment will be on board cars of the...
Oct 20 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit and automakers objected on Wednesday to California proposals to set new, mandatory rules for testing self-driving cars in the state, which industry officials said could hobble their...
Oct 12 2016 // A Toyota Motor Corp. official is raising concerns about California’s plans to require compliance with a planned U.S. autonomous vehicle safety check list, calling it “preposterous.”Hilary Cain, director...
Oct 11 2016 // Self-driving technology promises to pretty much transform the auto industry as we know it. It may also change the business of selling motorcycles—but in a very different way.It all comes down to safety, according to Karl...
Oct 7 2016 // Global automakers Toyota, BMW and insurer Allianz will license technology from Silicon Valley start-up Nauto, which uses cameras and artificial intelligence systems in cars to understand driver behavior, Nauto said on...
Oct 5 2016 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told Reuters he expects automakers and tech companies will comply with voluntary guidelines his department issued last month for autonomous vehicles.The National Highway Traffic...
Oct 5 2016 // With its recent acquisition of self-driving truck startup Otto, Uber Technologies Inc. is plotting its entry into the long-haul trucking business, aiming to establish itself as a freight hauler and a technology partner for...
Oct 4 2016 // People operating self-driving cars need at least six seconds and some cues from the vehicle to “get back in the loop” and take control in time to avoid an accident, researchers say.There are already partially...
Oct 3 2016 // A Tesla Motors Inc. car operating under Autopilot collided with a bus in northern Germany, but the electric car maker said a collision was unavoidable because the bus swerved into the vehicle’s lane.The incident...
Oct 3 2016 // New research from North Carolina State University finds that older adults have comparable response times to young adults when tasked with taking control of a semi-autonomous vehicle.“Before we see fully autonomous...
Oct 3 2016 // Boston, Mass., Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Transportation Department and the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, announced the launch of a new program to explore...
Oct 3 2016 // Google says three of its self-driving vehicles were involved in crashes in the Phoenix, Arizona, metro area in August.The California-based company says its drivers were manually controlling the vehicles during two of the...
Oct 3 2016 // Auto and tech companies are in a race to get self-driving cars to the public, but as with many cutting-edge technologies, there aren’t enough trained engineers to meet the demand for talent.So Mountain View,...
Oct 3 2016 // California is no longer the heartland for testing autonomous cars. The first commercial deployment of self-driving cars in the U.S. is already happening in Pittsburgh, where Uber is offering its customers the opportunity...
Sep 28 2016 // Japanese car maker Nissan has designed a self-driving chair for those who can’t stand standing in line waiting to get into their favorite restaurant, concert, motor vehicle office or other popular venue. The...
Sep 27 2016 // Automated cars have the backing of President Barack Obama, who’s signed off on what’s largely been a hands-off approach to regulating the burgeoning industry, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.The...
Sep 22 2016 // The new U.S. policy on self-driving cars received a mixed reaction from highway-safety advocates who acknowledged the life-saving potential though warned of a world of “human guinea pigs.”The Transportation...
Sep 21 2016 // Google says three of its self-driving vehicles were involved in crashes in the Phoenix, Ariz. metro area in August.The California-based company says its drivers were manually controlling the vehicles during two of the...