Era of Accident-Free Driving May be Within Reach
Is the auto industry approaching a high-tech era of accident-free driving? That's the vision at Continental, a major supplier of advanced driver assist technologies now focusing its R&D on fully...
View ArticleBuyers Show Increasing Interest in Autonomous Vehicles
Automakers now promise to put the first autonomous vehicles into production by decade's end. But if they build them, will motorists buy them? A new survey suggests that the answer is yes -- especially...
View ArticleCalifornia Questions Regulating Driverless Cars
It's rapidly moving from science fiction to reality, and regulators are racing to catch up as they set up rules for driving autonomous vehicles. California's DMV has begun the tricky process and is...
View ArticleDaimler Drives Deeper into Car-, Ride-Sharing
Ride- and car-sharing services typical offer users some drab vehicle options. But things could be looking up as Daimler's Mercedes brand lines up deals with both ride-sharing giant Uber, and...
View ArticleA Quarter of Miles Driven by 2030 Could Be in Driverless Battery-Cars
Ford and Mercedes want to put the first fully driverless cars on the road by 2021. And by the end of the decade fully 25% of the miles Americans clock traveling could be inside driverless battery...
View ArticleAre Privately Owned Cars Set to Vanish?
When Waymo began offering to let Phoenix-area families try out its vehicle service last month it touched off what a new study is calling “a historic revolution in transportation.” RethinkX is...
View ArticleLate to the Game, Honda Puts Autonomous Driving on the Fast Track
Honda has a reputation for building solid, reliable, fun-to-drive vehicles, but it has been slow to embrace some critical new technologies, including autonomous driving and plug-in vehicles. That's...
View ArticleFord Patent Shows How Autonomous Car’s Steering Wheel, Pedals Could Fold Away
Ford hopes to have a fully driverless vehicle in production by 2021, and a new patent shows how it would be able to turn that vehicle into a mobile lounge by hiding controls -- and then letting them...
View ArticleLyft Launches Autonomous Test in Boston
Lyft is the latest ride-sharing service to begin testing autonomous vehicles. The pilot program, launched in Boston, is a partnership with self-driving tech firm nuTonomy. Lyft is also partnering with...
View ArticleFormer Uber Autonomous Chief Levandowski Cops Plea in Tech Theft Case
Anthony Levandowski,an autonomous driving pioneer, could spend up to 30 months in prison after agreeing to plead guilty on federal charges arising out of the theft of intellectual property from Google....
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