All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2015 // The majority of property/casualty insurers do not expect autonomous or self-driving vehicles to have a real impact on their auto insurance business for another decade and have not adjusted their business models to prepare...
Jun 16 2015 // Imagine being in charge of the switch on a trolley track.The express is due any minute; but as you glance down the line you see a school bus, filled with children, stalled at the level crossing. No problem; that’s...
Jun 10 2015 // Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said this week he wants state transportation officials to consider adding support for self-driving cars as part of a multimillion-dollar highway widening and expansion project in Las Vegas.The...
Jun 8 2015 // Google Inc. said it would give monthly updates of accidents involving its driverless cars.The report for May showed Google cars had been involved in 12 accidents since the company first began testing its self-driving cars...
May 27 2015 // Google Inc. will begin testing self-driving cars of its own design on public roads this summer, but they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company described a year ago.Engineers will operate 25...
May 21 2015 // Traffic jams in the future could cause potentially dangerous data snarl-ups as cars packed with entertainment, safety and navigation features vie for airwaves with smartphones, tablets and networked features in other...
May 19 2015 // U.S. auto sales may drop about 40 percent in the next 25 years because of shared driverless cars, forcing mass-market producers such as General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. to slash output, a Barclays Plc analyst...
May 18 2015 // In a ceremony at Hoover Dam in May, Daimler Trucks North America unveiled the Freightliner Inspiration Truck, what it says is the first licensed autonomous commercial truck to operate on an open public highway in the...
May 12 2015 // Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads.Two accidents happened while...
May 11 2015 // Google Inc. said its self-driving vehicles have been involved in 11 minor accidents in the six years they’ve been in testing, and the automobiles were never to blame for the incidents.All of the accidents during 1.7...
May 6 2015 // In a ceremony at Hoover Dam, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) unveiled the Freightliner Inspiration Truck, what it says is the first licensed autonomous commercial truck to operate on an open public highway in the...
May 4 2015 // Picture a work day that begins like this: You step out of your house and into your self-driving vehicle, which carries you comfortably and safely to your office while you read the newspaper. After dropping you off, the car...
Apr 24 2015 // Vehicles with varying levels of self-driving capability will start to become available to consumers as early as this summer and it could then take 20 years for them to be the norm, according to a new report.The pace will...
Apr 20 2015 // On the topic of automation, Frank Lloyd Wright said: “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”It is safe to assume that Mr. Wright had no idea how true his words would ring or...
Apr 6 2015 // Driverless vehicles may reduce the number of vehicles a family needs, but may lead to an increase in total miles driven.Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) examined U.S....
Mar 24 2015 // Driverless vehicles may reduce the number of vehicles a family needs, but may lead to an increase in total miles driven.Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) examined U.S....
Mar 19 2015 // Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO Elon Musk thinks that human-driven cars could eventually be outlawed as computers show they can do a more efficient and safer job of driving.“In the distant future, [legislators] may...
Mar 16 2015 // Delphi Automotive Plc, a supplier of car electronics, is undertaking the longest test of a driverless auto, going coast to coast in the U.S. with a specially outfitted Audi Q5 sport-utility vehicle.The SUV will cover about...
Feb 2 2015 // Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based transportation...
Jan 15 2015 // Google Inc. sees Detroit’s snow as a bigger barrier than Washington’s regulators for its self-driving car.The technology giant doesn’t intend to offer a self-driving car to areas where it snows in the...