Most Americans Continue to Be Very Afraid of Self-Driving Cars: AAA Survey March 15, 2019 By Keith Naughton Seven in 10 Americans don’t want to go anywhere near self-driving cars. The portion of Americans who fear autonomous vehicles—71...
Waymo Cleared to be First in California for Testing Without Backup Driver October 30, 2018 By David Shepardson and Alexandria Sage Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from the state of California to...
Driverless Ships Could Offer Significant Growth Area for London Market: IUA Survey October 8, 2018 Autonomous ships could offer significant growth potential for the London market, according to the findings of a survey conducted by...
Why Not Just Retrain Pedestrians to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Safer? August 17, 2018 By Jeremy Kahn You’re crossing the street wrong. That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the...
Rivals Uber, Waymo in Talks About Driverless Ride Hailing Partnership May 31, 2018 By David Ingram Uber Technologies Inc. is talking with Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit Waymo about using its technology on Uber’s ride-hailing app,...
Drive to Autonomous Vehicles Slows After Series of Accidents May 2, 2018 By Brian Eckhouse A series of high-profile accidents involving self-driving cars are slowing the mad rush into the autonomous vehicles business, according to...
Chinese Tech Giant Baidu to Test Self-Driving Cars in Beijing March 23, 2018 China’s capital city has given the green light to tech giant Baidu Inc to test self-driving cars on city streets,...
Driving in Snow: Difficult for Humans and Driverless Cars March 22, 2018 By Allison Lampert A Canadian town known for its annual theater festival is emerging as a hub of “snowtonomous” research, as automakers face...
Arizona Became Autonomous Hotbed Prior to Uber’s Deadly Crash March 20, 2018 By Gabrielle Coppola, Ryan Beene and Dana Hull The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers in Pittsburgh....
London Unprepared to Be Early Adopter of Autonomous Vehicles: Report February 14, 2018 By Christopher Jasper London is ill-prepared to become an early adopter of cutting-edge transport technology including driverless cars and retail deliveries by drone,...