Latest Autonomous Vehicles Headlines
All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.
U.S. Agency Calls for Better Safety Metrics for Autonomous Cars
Oct 24 2018 // Autonomous vehicle manufacturers need a better yardstick to show that their products are safe, said Derek Kan, under secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation. The metrics that are most widely used by...
Federal Safety Agency Shuts Down Self-Driving School Bus Test
Oct 23 2018 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday said it had ordered Transdev North America to immediately stop transporting school children in Florida in a driverless shuttle, as the testing could be putting...
London’s Biggest Private Taxi Firm Aims to Roll Out Self-Driving Cars by 2021
Oct 22 2018 // A fleet of autonomous taxis could roll onto the streets of the U.K. capital within three years, after one of London’s biggest private-hire taxi companies struck a deal with a maker of autonomous vehicle...
How to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer on Roads with Humans
Oct 18 2018 // As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Congress press for removing safety regulations in order to fast-track the introduction of highly automated vehicles, human factors/ergonomics experts are...
Single Pilot Operations for Air Cargo a Test for Autonomous Flying
Oct 11 2018 // Aerospace and innovation have gone hand-in-hand since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Airplanes were once simple metal tubes powered by propellers. Long-haul flying meant four engines and at least three pilots on...
UK Self-Driving Startup Oxbotica Appoints Former Uber Executive to Board
Oct 10 2018 // Oxbotica, a U.K. startup whose self-driving vehicle software will help guide the European Space Agency’s Mars rover, has appointed former Uber executive Fraser Robinson to its board. Robinson served as the...
It’s Not Easy to Teach Robot Drivers to Think Like Humans
Oct 9 2018 // Robot cars make for annoying drivers. Relative to human motorists, the driverless vehicles now undergoing testing on public roads are overly cautious, maddeningly slow, and prone to abrupt halts or bizarre paralysis caused...
Tesla Touts Its Safety Statistics
Oct 8 2018 // When it’s machine versus human, it’s more likely humans will be exchanging insurance information with other humans, according to data released by the electric car maker Tesla. In the first quarterly report on...
Trump Administration Moves to Speed Up Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Oct 5 2018 // The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors, according to a document made public...
Toyota Eyes Future When People Don’t Buy Cars, Pushing Ride-Hailing Ties, Insurance
Sep 27 2018 // Toyota Motor Corp., Asia’s biggest carmaker, is preparing for a potential future where people don’t buy cars. That’s behind the hefty investments that the company has made in ride-hailing providers, most...
Assurant Invests in Connected Car Services Startup
Sep 20 2018 // Niche market specialty insurer Assurant has invested in a technology startup focused on connected car services. The New York-based company declined to disclose the level of investment in Mojio, a technology platform and...
Americans’ Interest in Self-Driving Cars Goes in Reverse
Sep 19 2018 // Less than half of Americans (43 percent) are interested in utilizing self-driving cars, down from 53 percent last year. According to an annual sharing economy index by Allianz Global Assistance, the lack of interest is...
VW, Other Carmakers in Talks Over Autonomous Vehicle Standards
Sep 17 2018 // Germany’s Volkswagen is in talks with other carmakers to set common standards for self-driving vehicle technology, Automotive News reported on Friday. The Volkswagen Group is discussing the initiative with more than...
Tesla Driver in California Blames Autopilot for Firetruck Crash, Arrested for DUI
Sep 17 2018 // Authorities say a Tesla driver, who said he thought his car was in Autopilot mode, crashed into the back of a firetruck in San Jose. The California Highway Patrol says the Tesla rear-ended a fire engine that was stopped...
Volvo Offers Self-Driving Truck with No Cab as Way to Address Shortage of Drivers
Sep 13 2018 // Sweden’s Volvo, the world’s second-biggest truck maker, presented a new self-driving electric truck on Wednesday, which it said should help respond to the boom in e-commerce and a shortage of freight...
Accident Report Confirms Apple Still in Autonomous Car Race
Sep 4 2018 // An Apple Inc. self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters this month, the company said in an accident report posted on Friday that confirmed the...
Tesla Driver in California Blames Autopilot for Firetruck Crash, Arrested for DUI
Aug 28 2018 // Authorities say a Tesla driver, who said he thought his car was in Autopilot mode, crashed into the back of a firetruck in San Jose. The California Highway Patrol says the Tesla rear-ended a fire engine that was stopped...
First Driverless Shuttle Demonstration Held in NYC by COAST Autonomous
Aug 20 2018 // New York City’s first driverless shuttle has arrived. In Times Square, a self-driving P-1 shuttle from COAST Autonomous was demonstrated July 17 along an approximately 150-yard course. “It’s...
Why Not Just Retrain Pedestrians to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Safer?
Aug 17 2018 // You’re crossing the street wrong. That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle and amid...
Kroger to Pilot Self-Driving Grocery Delivery in Arizona
Aug 16 2018 // Kroger Co. is bringing self-driving grocery delivery to Arizona. The largest grocery chain in the U.S. will start delivering groceries in autonomous-capable Toyota Prius cars starting Aug. 16 at a Fry’s Food Stores...
