Driverless Cars Mapping Route from Labs to Driveways January 5, 2017 By Keith Naughton Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive Plc went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 sport-utility vehicle to prove the...
Ford CEO: Affordable Driverless Cars to Be in Showrooms in 10 Years September 14, 2016 By Keith Naughton Ford Motor Co. intends to start selling driverless cars to the public by about 2025, its chief executive officer said....
73% of U.S. Drivers Welcome Commuting with Robot Behind the Wheel: Survey June 30, 2016 By Keith Naughton Almost three-quarters of U.S. drivers are eager to replace the daily commute’s drudgery with a self-driving car and 80 percent...
U.S. Wants Safety ‘Two Times Better’ for Autonomous Cars June 9, 2016 By Keith Naughton Self-driving cars must increase safety at least twofold to make a real dent in the 38,000 lives lost on American...
Driverless Car Supporters Urge National Laws to Override State, Local March 16, 2016 By Jeff Plungis and Keith Naughton A patchwork of state laws governing the operation of self-driving cars threatens to stall their development, supporters told lawmakers as...
Michigan Says Potholes Make State a Great Place to Test Robot Cars February 25, 2016 By Keith Naughton Michigan and California, vying for control of our driverless future, are each proposing crumbling World War II military sites as...
Driverless Cars Give Lawyers Bottomless List of Defendants December 22, 2015 By Keith Naughton and Margaret Cronin Fisk Imagine a robot car with no one behind the wheel hitting another driverless car. Who’s at fault? The answer: No...
Driverless Car Accidents Pile Up As They Obey Laws, Humans Don’t So Much December 18, 2015 By Keith Naughton The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opposite...
Professor Steers Driverless Car Programmers Toward Ethical Questions October 14, 2015 By Keith Naughton It’s nothing more than a dune buggy on a cordoned-off street but it’s headed for trouble. A jumble of sawhorses...
U.S. Missing Life-Saving Opportunity of Driver Assistance Technologies September 30, 2015 By Keith Naughton New auto safety technologies such as automatic braking and sensors that keep a car in its lane could prevent almost...