Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Self-Driving Claims October 27, 2022 By Mike Spector and Dan Levine Tesla Inc. is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves,...
Agency Probing Self-Driving Cruise Car Crash In California July 11, 2022 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a special investigation into a recent crash of a Cruise self-driving vehicle...
California Halts Pony.Ai’s Driverless Testing Permit After Accident December 14, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin and Brenda Goh A California regulator on Monday said it has suspended a driverless testing permit for startup technology firm Pony.ai following an...
Debate Over Liability Holds Up Self-Driving Car Legislation in Senate May 24, 2021 By Keith Laing A debate over who to blame — or sue — when a self-driven car hits someone is holding up legislation...
California Crash Victim Posted Videos Riding in Tesla on Autopilot May 17, 2021 By Daisy Nguyen The driver of a Tesla involved in a fatal crash that California highway authorities said may have been operating on...
Cruise Rolling out Fully Autonomous Cars in San Francisco December 11, 2020 By Michael Liedtke General Motors’ self-driving car company is sending vehicles without anybody behind the wheel in San Francisco as it navigates its...
Self-Driving’s Latest Turn: GM’s Cruise Seeks OK for Cars Without Steering Wheel, Pedals October 22, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee and David Shepardson Self-driving car maker Cruise said on Wednesday it and majority shareholder General Motors Co. would seek U.S. regulatory approval in...
Uber Backup Driver Faces Homicide Charges in Fatal 2018 Arizona Crash September 16, 2020 By David Shepardson The back-up safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman...
Profit-Driven Automakers Race to Next Level of Not Quite Self-Driving Cars July 15, 2020 By Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance...
House Panel to Hold Hearing to Advance Rules on Self-Driving Vehicles February 10, 2020 By David Shepardson A U.S. House panel will hold a hearing Tuesday on autonomous vehicles as lawmakers try to hammer out legislation to...