U.S. Exempts Self-Driving Vehicles From Some Crash Standards
The outgoing Trump administration said on Thursday it was issuing new rules that would allow manufacturers of automated vehicles to bypass some crash standards required of conventional vehicles, which...
View ArticleCalifornia OKs China’s Baidu for Testing Self-Driving Cars Without Driver
Baidu Inc. has received a permit from the state of California to test self-driving cars without a driver behind the wheel, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said on Wednesday. Although...
View ArticleBritain’s Ambitions to Lead in Driverless Cars Faces Insurance Speed Bumps
Britain’s goal to be a leader in adopting self-driving cars could backfire unless automakers and government regulators spell out the current limitations of the technology, insurance companies warn....
View ArticleUK Government Green Lights ‘Self-Driving’ Cars on Motorways
LONDON — The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at slow speeds on motorways, with the first such cars possibly appearing...
View ArticlePhase One of Autonomous Corridor Project Begins in Md. City
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) — Drones, robots and self-driving cars were buzzing through downtown Westminster on Thursday for the ribbon-cutting of the first phase of MAGIC’s autonomous corridor project....
View ArticleAre Autonomous Vehicles Safe for Public Roads? There’s a Tool for Gauging That.
Aurora, the Silicon Valley self-driving startup founded by former Tesla, Uber and Google executives, has released what it says is the industry’s first tool for evaluating whether and when autonomous...
View ArticleUK Needs Law For Self-Driving Cars, Government Body Says
LONDON–Britain should pass a law regulating self-driving vehicles and include sanctions for companies if anything goes wrong when their vehicles take over control from human drivers, two independent...
View ArticleArgo Testing Driverless Vehicles on Miami and Austin Streets
AUSTIN —Self-driving startup Argo AI on Tuesday said it was having driverless vehicles carry employees around streets of Miami, Florida and Austin, Texas, noting that commercial applications would...
View ArticleGM’s Cruise Wins First California Permit to Carry Paying Riders in Driverless...
OAKLAND, Calif. –– General Motors Co’s Cruise on Thursday became the first company to secure a permit to charge for self-driving car rides in San Francisco, after it overcame objections by city...
View ArticleGM’s Cruise Recalls 80 Self-Driving Cars Due to Risk of Crash
General Motors Co.’s Cruise self-driving car unit has recalled an older version of software used by its robotaxis at the time of a crash in San Francisco in June, according to federal transportation...
View ArticleMany US Drivers Treat Partially Automated Cars as Self-Driving – Study
WASHINGTON –– Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla Autopilot or General Motors GM.N Super Cruise often treat their vehicles as fully self-driving despite warnings, a new study...
View ArticleDriverless Car Development Sets Ablaze a Bonfire of Billions
Autonomous vehicle companies and suppliers have collectively spent around $75 billiondeveloping self-driving technology, with scant sign of meaningful revenue emerging from robo-car services after all...
View ArticleTesla Braces For Its First Trial Involving Autopilot Fatality
Tesla Inc. is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief...
View ArticleGM-Owned Cruise’s Wrong Turn Could Slow Robotaxi Push
U.S. robotaxi operators could face increased regulatory scrutiny after an accident involving Cruise, the self-driving cab business of General Motors, forced the company to pause service. In October,...
View ArticleCalifornia Lawmakers Call for Stricter Regulation of Autonomous Vehicles
California lawmakers and labor unions rallied to call for laws to not allow autonomous trucks without human drivers, amid rising safety concerns after accidents involving self-driving taxis from...
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