Safety Sharing Economy: Toyota Offers Its Driver Assistance Technology to Competitors January 8, 2019 By Keith Naughton Toyota Motor Corp. — in an unusual move for the cut-throat car business — has decided to share with rivals...
Autonomous Driving Hype Now at ‘Peak Absurdity,’ Claims Auto Dealer Group Leader October 10, 2018 By Keith Naughton The auto industry is a long way from seeing autonomous vehicles and ride-hailing companies put an end to traffic deaths...
Tesla Insists Driver to Blame for Fatal Crash; Family Hires Lawyer April 12, 2018 By Keith Naughton and Dana Hull Tesla Inc. again placed blame for a fatal crash involving a Model X last month on the driver as the...
Safety Worry: Keeping Humans In and Around Autonomous Vehicles Engaged April 11, 2018 By Keith Naughton, Ryan Beene and Alan Levin After partially faulting Tesla Inc.’s automation system for a 2016 fatal crash, U.S. safety investigators last year called on carmakers...
Why Driverless Delivery of Goods Is Likely to Arrive Before Passengers March 13, 2018 By Keith Naughton and Kyle Stock In the wait for self-driving technology, cell-phone toting tech bros may have to cede their spot in line to pizzas,...
Americans’ Fear of Driverless Cars Subsiding: AAA Survey January 29, 2018 By Keith Naughton American drivers are slowly warming up to the idea of relinquishing the wheel to a robot. Although 63 percent of...
Self-Driving Delivery Cars, Robot Taxis ‘Will Be Ready to Roll’ in 2018 December 5, 2017 By Keith Naughton and Gabrielle Coppola Self-driving vehicles will be ready to roll next year, though the work to make them affordable to individual consumers is...
Trump Regulation Approach Likely to Stall Connected Vehicles September 26, 2017 By David Welch, Keith Naughton and Ryan Beene The technology that gives cars superpowers to see around corners and through walls won’t be on the first self-driving rides...
Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Self-Driving Cars September 11, 2017 By Keith Naughton Fully self-driving cars are set the hit the road within four years, but most Americans aren’t ready to buy them....
Michigan WWII Bomber Site Gears Up for Driverless Demos in December August 21, 2017 By Keith Naughton Self-driving cars will begin taking test laps this December on the site of a famous World War II airplane factory...