Self-driving Cars
Up close with Otto and its $680 million autonomous tech.
Autonomous driving features and an electric/hybrid drivetrain ranked dead last from a list of 12 car characteristics, even for future purchases.
Car companies are throwing caution aside and expecting to put thousands of cars on the streets before there has been sufficient testing.
Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft — all customers of Here Maps — are possibilities.
The communications capabilities of today’s cars are about to surpass those of any device we own.
The debate in self-driving circles: Is it safer to introduce semi-autonomous features incrementally or fully autonomous technology when it’s ready?
Lyft and Volvo are also involved.
”If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple.”
“Sometimes shifting your perspective is more powerful than being smart.”
Nauto’s after-market car tech business is a way to establish its value to the auto industry.
Ford CEO Mark Fields on electric cars, self-driving and the weird future of his rapidly changing industry.
Arizona is an obvious choice: It’s the only state where the governor has issued an executive order to allow for the testing of autonomous vehicles.
Volvo has set a goal of having zero fatalities in its vehicles by 2020, but it’ll take semi and fully autonomous technology to achieve that.
With the tech industry nipping at its heels, automakers like Ford and GM are pouring more resources into the development of driverless technology.
It is an acquisition that will aid in the development of autonomous vehicles.
Steel City is getting test roads for autonomous vehicles.
Newsom tells Re/code Executive Editor Kara Swisher that he wants tech companies to take an active role in fixing the socioeconomic problems caused by their success.
But it wasn’t easy. “We busted a lot of balloons,” moonshot chief Astro Teller said during a talk at the TED conference.
Does a robot car need a turn-signal switch?
Google lost $3.6 billion on moonshots in 2015.
“Car ownership as we know it will change.”
Emergencies, autonomous vehicles and over-the-air software updates are all reasons why vehicles are getting their own cellular connections.
The worst outcome we’re used to with most computers is figurative crashes. Literal ones are pretty intimidating.
Proposal could give nascent autonomous vehicle business a boost.
“We are trying not to make decisions too fast,” CEO Carlos Ghosn said in an interview.
Yeah, but can the car scrape ice off the windshield on its own?
Anthony Foxx wants to be an ally to tech companies plowing into transit.
Processing power equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros
This year’s annual geek confab is all about transportation.
How will Google’s clown cars make cash?
Ford joins Google and car companies like BMW, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Tesla, and Volkswagen.
Move over, Google. Volvo has a sleek autonomous vehicle called Concept 26.
“Gaps between those with and without skills ... may widen as never before.”
“License and regis ... hey, what the ...?”
Why Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs isn’t going to be an ad company.
That cash horde must be burning a hole in Apple’s pocket.
It’s called MARTY, naturally.
Stanford’s Revs program is moving the ethics of self-driving technology beyond a mere academic discussion.
The company is exploring bringing its images sensors to the next generation of vehicles.
“Any delay in getting autonomy out there is a crime.”