Latest Autonomous Vehicles Headlines
All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New York to Receive Up to $20M to Develop Connected Vehicle Technologies
Sep 18 2015 // New York City will be the main testing ground for a smart device installed in vehicles to warn motorists of impending dangers and congestion, the U.S. secretary of transportation announced on Sept. 14. Secretary Anthony...
Technology May Outpace Humans on Road to Automated Driving
Sep 14 2015 // From his laboratory at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, automated vehicle pioneer Raj Rajkumar says self-driving cars will evolve step-by-step, with humans staying in charge for a long time to come. More than...
Makers of Self-Driving Cars Could Shoulder Burden of Insurance Liability
Sep 9 2015 // Hacker attacks or faulty software could shift the burden of legal and regulatory liability toward makers of self-driving cars and away from customers, experts say, forcing regulators and insurers to develop new...
Uber Plans for Driverless Cars, Hires Hacking and Robotics Experts
Aug 31 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. has hired two top vehicle security researchers, the company said on Friday, high-profile additions that come as the ride-hailing service ramps up its work on technology for self-driving cars. Charlie...
Unmanned Work Zone Trucks Promise Road Safety, Savings
Aug 27 2015 // Roving construction crews — the kind you see blacktopping a road, painting lines, inspecting a bridge or installing a traffic signal — are often protected from oncoming traffic by a specialized truck outfitted with a...
Insurers Unprepared for Self-Driving Car Disruption: KPMG
Aug 3 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...
Autonomous Vehicle Liability: Not Automatic Yet
Aug 3 2015 // A recent blog post asked a complicated question around the increasingly popular topic of insurance liability for accidents that involve autonomous vehicles (AVs — vehicles that can, as prototypes today, drive...
Fiat Chrysler Recall Highlights Cyber Risks of Connected Cars, Telematics
Jul 27 2015 // Fiat Chrysler will recall 1.4 million vehicles in the United States to install software to prevent hackers from gaining remote control of the engine, steering and other systems in what federal officials said was the first...
Staged Hacking Shows Vulnerability of Connected Vehicles
Jul 22 2015 // A pair of veteran cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to turn off a car’s engine as it drives, sharply escalating the stakes in the debate about the safety of increasingly connected cars...
M City: Where All Cars Are Driverless
Jul 21 2015 // A simulated city opened Monday on the north campus of the University of Michigan to test how self-driving cars will travel in the future without mowing down pedestrians or causing colossal crashes. “We had the...
Google Tests Driverless Cars in Texas City
Jul 8 2015 // Google Inc. has selected Texas as the latest testing site for its self-driving car project, the company announced Tuesday. A modified Lexus SUV has already been seen on Austin roads, with safety drivers on board, according...
What Those Smart Cars of Future Will Look Like
Jul 7 2015 // Much of the talk surrounding autonomous cars these days is centered on testing and regulations and not on what the car of the future might look like. A 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) press...
Nevada Governor Wants Officials to Support Self-Driving Cars
Jul 6 2015 // Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval voiced his support for self-driving cars. Sandoval said this month he wants state transportation officials to consider adding support for self-driving cars as part of a multi-million dollar...
Two Self-Driving Cars Avoid Collision, Says Passenger
Jun 26 2015 // Two self-driving prototype cars, one operated by Google Inc. and the other by Delphi Automotive Plc, had a close call on a Silicon Valley street earlier this week, a Delphi executive told Reuters on Thursday. It was...
Fully Self-Driving Cars Still 15 Years Down the Road: Supplier
Jun 25 2015 // The technology to make cars fully autonomous probably won’t be established until at least 2030, according to the top supplier for the world’s biggest automaker. The auto industry will take intermediate steps...
Insurers Unprepared for Self-Driving Car Disruption: KPMG
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...
Ethics of Self-Driving Cars: Should They Kill Driver to Save Others?
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...
Nevada Governor Wants Officials to Support Self-Driving Cars
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...
Google to Issue Monthly Reports on Self-Driving Car Accidents
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...
Google Driverless Test Cars to Have Steering Wheels, Brakes
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...
