Latest Autonomous Vehicles Headlines
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Google’s Autonomous Car Company Escalates Legal Battle With Uber
Mar 14 2017 // A self-driving car company founded by Google is presenting new evidence to support allegations that a former manager stole technology sold to Uber to help the ridesharing service build its own robot-powered...
U.S. Chipmaker Intel to Enter Driverless Car Tech with Acquisition of Mobileye
Mar 13 2017 // Intel Corp. will acquire Mobileye NV for about $15 billion, paying one of the highest takeover premiums this century to play catch-up in the market for technology that helps cars drive themselves. The U.S. chipmaker will...
California Legislators Consider Self-Driving Vehicles and the Need for Prop 103 Reform
Mar 9 2017 // Proposition 103—California’s restrictive regulatory regime for insurance—may need a few tweaks as fewer and fewer cars on the road have human drivers. During a March 8 informational hearing, members of the...
WikiLeaks Documents Shows CIA Worried About Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity
Mar 9 2017 // WikiLeaks documents showing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency considered a “mission” against connected car technology underscores auto industry concern that the science behind the next generation of vehicles...
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Could Pave Way for Self-Driving Cars, Smart Roads
Mar 8 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv What does the Trump Administration have in store for the development of autonomous vehicles and smart roads? With the administration’s ambitious infrastructure plan still far from...
Autonomous Bus Without Back-Up Driver Coming to California Road
Mar 7 2017 // A pair of $250,000 autonomous buses began driving around an empty San Francisco Bay Area parking lot this week in preparation to move onto a local public road in California’s first pilot program for a self-driving...
Self-Driving Nissan Car Begins Tests on Streets of London
Feb 27 2017 // Guided by cameras and radars, and negotiating traffic and roundabouts, a self-driving Nissan car took to the streets of London on Monday for the Japanese company’s first European tests of an autonomous...
Company Founded by Google Accuses Uber of Autonomous VehicleTheft
Feb 27 2017 // A self-driving car company founded by Google is colliding with ridesharing service Uber in a court battle revolving around allegations of betrayal, high-tech espionage and greed. The brewing showdown emerged in a lawsuit...
Trump Administration Reviewing Obama’s Autonomous Vehicle Guidance
Feb 27 2017 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said on Sunday she is reviewing self-driving vehicle guidance issued by the Obama administration and urged companies to explain the benefits of automated vehicles to a skeptical...
EU Lawmakers Call for Law Regulating Rise of Robots, Including Self-Driving Cars
Feb 24 2017 // European lawmakers on Feb. 16 called for EU-wide legislation to regulate the rise of robots, including an ethical framework for their development and deployment and the establishment of liability for the actions of robots...
What is Lidar and Why Are Autonomous Car Makers Fighting Over It?
Feb 24 2017 // Spacecraft use it to measure distance. Farmers use it to work out which fields need fertilizer. Archaeologists use it to map topography. And, crucially for Uber Technologies Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo,...
10 U.S.-Designated Autonomous Vehicle Testing Sites
Feb 21 2017 // The U.S. Department of Transportation recently designated 10 “proving grounds” to encourage safe testing of automated vehicle technologies. “The designated proving grounds will collectively form a...
Snoozing While Cruising Argues for Full Autonomy in Vehicles
Feb 21 2017 // As Ford Motor Co. has been developing self-driving cars, the U.S. automaker has started noticing a problem during test drives: Engineers monitoring the robot rides are dozing off. Company researchers have tried to roust...
Automakers Want Regulatory Road Cleared for Self-Driving Vehicles
Feb 14 2017 // General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. officials will tell a U.S. House panel on Tuesday that automakers need changes to automotive safety rules to allow the deployment of self-driving cars on American...
Driver in Double Fatal Tesla Crash in Indiana Was Drunk, Police Say
Feb 10 2017 // The driver of a speeding Tesla electric car that crashed and burned in Indianapolis, killing her and a passenger, was too drunk to drive, according to a police report released Wednesday. The report, which includes...
Report: Self-Driving Prototypes Getting Better at Navigating California Streets
Feb 3 2017 // Self-driving car prototypes appear to be getting better at negotiating California streets and highways without a human backup driver intervening, according to data made public by California transportation regulators. The...
Smart Cars on Rough Roads
Jan 23 2017 // Technology companies and traditional auto manufacturers are racing to deploy fully automated cars without driver controls within the next three or so years. Their immediate goal is to develop fully autonomous vehicles that...
Investigation Concludes Tesla Not at Fault in Self-Driving Car Crash
Jan 20 2017 // The push to bring self-driving cars to American roads got a significant boost on Thursday when the nation’s chief auto safety regulator essentially cleared Tesla Motors Inc.’s Autopilot system of fault in a...
Consumers Not Yet Convinced Driverless Cars Are Safer
Jan 19 2017 // Car makers and tech firms are convinced that driverless cars are the future, but they appear to be ahead of consumers in that thinking. Only 23 percent of Americans say they are willing to ride in an autonomous car, while...
State Agency Advocates for Self-Driving Car Legislation in Maryland
Jan 19 2017 // Maryland state’s Motor Vehicle Administration is advocating legislation that would transfer regulatory power of self-driving cars to the agency and the state police, saying the change may improve safety on Maryland...
