Latest Autonomous Vehicles Headlines
All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo Launching Autonomous Vehicle Testing Site in Ohio
Dec 3 2020 // Waymo plans to open a new testing site in Ohio for its driverless autonomous vehicles that will focus on dense, urban areas, the company has said. The new site being built at the Transportation Research Center near...
Automakers Unveil Steps for U.S. to Speed Up Self-Driving Vehicle Deployment
Dec 3 2020 // A group representing major automakers is unveiling a detailed proposal Wednesday aimed at making it easier to deploy thousands of self-driving vehicles in the coming years, according to a document seen by Reuters. The...
Liability, Safety and Infrastructure Concerns Slow Development of Self-Driving Cars
Nov 5 2020 // Tesla recently made headlines with the beta launch of its Full Self-Driving system. That system comes with a disclaimer saying, “It may do the wrong thing at the worst time, so you must always keep your hands on the...
Waymo Issues Self-Driving Car Incident Score Card for Phoenix Area
Oct 30 2020 // Self-driving tech company Waymo, which this month opened its driverless taxi service in the Phoenix suburbs to the public, on Friday said its autonomous vehicles there had been involved in 18 minor incidents since 2019...
GM’s Cruise on Top in Consumer Reports Safety Ratings of Driving Assistance Systems
Oct 29 2020 // General Motors Co.’s Super Cruise once again edged Tesla’s Autopilot in an evaluation of 17 vehicles equipped with active driving assistance systems (ADAS) by Consumer Reports, the testing organization said on...
Safety Regulator Vows to ‘Closely Monitor’ New Tesla Self-Driving Software
Oct 23 2020 // The U.S. auto safety regulator said on Thursday it was closely watching Tesla Inc.’s release of a software version intended to allow its cars to drive themselves, saying it stood ready to protect the public against...
Self-Driving’s Latest Turn: GM’s Cruise Seeks OK for Cars Without Steering Wheel, Pedals
Oct 22 2020 // Self-driving car maker Cruise said on Wednesday it and majority shareholder General Motors Co. would seek U.S. regulatory approval in coming months to deploy a limited number of Cruise Origin vehicles without steering...
Waymo Driverless Taxi Now Available to Public in Phoenix
Oct 8 2020 // Waymo on Thursday will relaunch and expand its fully automated, robo-taxi ride hailing service in Phoenix, rebooting its effort to transform years of autonomous vehicle research into a revenue-producing business. Waymo,...
Congress Parks Self-Driving Car Regulation Until 2021
Sep 24 2020 // The U.S. Congress will try again in 2021 to try to approve long-stalled reforms to speed the adoption of self-driving cars, a key Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday. U.S. lawmakers have been divided for years over how to...
Uber Backup Driver Faces Homicide Charges in Fatal 2018 Arizona Crash
Sep 16 2020 // The back-up safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Rafael...
Uber Vows Better Disclosure of Safety Data on Self-Driving Cars
Aug 31 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. vowed to make public more safety information regarding its self-driving cars after the National Transportation Safety Board placed partial blame for a fatal 2018 crash on the company’s...
Autonomous Vehicle Design Should Take Nothing for Granted
Aug 10 2020 // Driver mistakes play a role in virtually all crashes. That’s why automation has been held up as a potential safety game changer. But autonomous vehicles might prevent only around a third of all crashes if automated...
Americans Becoming More Leery of Autonomous Technologies
Aug 7 2020 // Americans are becoming less comfortable with the idea of driverless transportation. A new report from an American Automobile Association (AAA) indicates that consumer trust in these vehicles has quickly eroded over the...
Profit-Driven Automakers Race to Next Level of Not Quite Self-Driving Cars
Jul 15 2020 // Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance standards to follow as they roll out the most significant changes to vehicle...
There’s Still Work to Do Addressing Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles
Jul 9 2020 // There’s a fairly large flaw in the way that programmers are currently addressing ethical concerns related to artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles (AVs). Namely, existing approaches don’t account...
TuSimple Launches Self-Driving Truck Network with Berkshire’s McLane, UPS
Jul 2 2020 // U.S. technology company TuSimple on Wednesday launched a self-driving freight network with UPS and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. supply chain unit McLane that it said should operate nationwide by 2024 and start running some...
U.S. to Publicly Share Autonomous Vehicle Testing Data
Jun 15 2020 // U.S. auto safety regulators will unveil on Monday a voluntary effort to collect and make available nationwide data on existing autonomous vehicle testing. U.S. states have a variety of regulations governing self-driving...
Autonomous Car Makers at Odds With Insurance Industry Study Claiming Low Estimate of Crashes
Jun 15 2020 // Companies working on self-driving vehicles have criticized an insurance industry study suggesting that only a third of all U.S. road crashes could be prevented by driverless cars, arguing that the study has underestimated...
Autonomous Car Makers Dispute Insurance Study’s Low Estimate of Crashes
Jun 8 2020 // Companies working on self-driving vehicles have criticized an insurance industry study suggesting that only a third of all U.S. road crashes could be prevented by driverless cars, arguing that the study has underestimated...
Self-Driving Vehicles, Robots Showing What They Can Do in Contactless Deliveries
May 4 2020 // Self-driving cars, trucks, sidewalk robots and shuttles are rolling out of the labs and parking garages and onto American streets to help deliver groceries, meals, and medical supplies. Although self-driving car companies...
