Autonomous vehicle deployment in the U.S. will lead to the creation of more than 114,000 jobs over the next 15 years to meet production, distribution, maintenance, upgrades and repair needs, a new report by a tech-industry policy coalition shows. The …
Tesla Inc. reached a settlement on the eve of its highest-profile trial yet over a crash blamed on Autopilot, the driver-assistance system Elon Musk has billed as crucial to his pursuit of self-driving cars, according to court filings. Terms of …
California lawmakers and labor unions rallied to call for laws to not allow autonomous trucks without human drivers, amid rising safety concerns after accidents involving self-driving taxis from General Motors and Alphabet. A robotaxi from Alphabet’s GOOGL.OWaymo was torched by …
Completely driverless vehicles traveled nearly 3.3 million miles in California last year, over five times the previous year’s total, even as concerns rose in the wake of a Cruise robotaxi accident, state data on vehicle testing released on Friday showed. …
General Motors said Monday it plans to temporarily halt production of its fully autonomous Cruise Origin van just days after the unit said it was pausing all driverless operations. The move was first reported by Forbes, citing an audio of …
U.S. auto safety regulator has opened a probe into whether General Motors’ self-driving unit Cruise has taken sufficient precautions with its autonomous vehicles to safeguard pedestrians, it said on Tuesday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its Office …
LONDON – Britain could lose out on investments in autonomous vehicles and see startups shift testing elsewhere if promised laws to regulate the technology are not passed before the next general election, startups and insurance companies said. Despite the government’s …
Attorneys with Clyde & Co., an international law firm, offer these predictions for the insurance industry in the coming year: Courts show less willingness to consider extravagant policyholder coverage arguments post-COVID Onslaught of litigation has subsided but some changes are …
Autonomous vehicle companies and suppliers have collectively spent around $75 billiondeveloping self-driving technology, with scant sign of meaningful revenue emerging from robo-car services after all that cash incineration. This has spelled disaster for Aurora Innovation, TuSimple Holdings and Embark Technology, …
SAN FRANCISCO –– Toyota Motor Corp unit Woven Planet is following the lead of Tesla Inc. in trying to advance self-driving technology with low-cost cameras. Woven Planet told Reuters it is able to use cameras to collect data and effectively …