Consumer Groups Want Congress to Carefully Consider Driverless Car Rules June 27, 2017 By Ryan Beene Basic rules of the road are needed before lawmakers allow companies from Apple Inc. to Ford Motor Co. to dramatically...
New Way to Test Self-Driving Cars Could Cut 99.9 Percent of Validation Costs June 16, 2017 Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions...
Waymo Hardware Testing to Ease Passenger Fears of Driverless Cars May 16, 2017 By Mark Bergen and Alistair Barr For years the Google coders and roboticists working on driverless cars have focused on making sure their creations could drive...
Waymo’s Trade Secret Case May Stall Uber Driverless Car Ambitions May 4, 2017 By Joel Rosenblatt and Eric Newcomer Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick calls driverless cars an “existential” necessity for his company. If he’s right,...
Video Games Help Driverless Cars Learn April 19, 2017 In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren’t enough hours in a day to clock the...
Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Partner to Build Driverless Cars April 6, 2017 By DAVID McHUGH Automaker Daimler AG and industry supplier Bosch Group are teaming up to make driverless cars that they say could be...
Intel Spends $15B on Mobileye in Race to a Driverless Future March 15, 2017 By TOM KRISHER Intel will buy Israel’s Mobileye in a deal valued at about $15 billion, instantly propelling the computer chip and technology...
Benefits of Self-Driving Cars Weighed Against Moral Issues January 20, 2017 Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your brakes fail. As you speed toward a crowded crosswalk, you’re confronted with an...
Uber Wants Pennsylvania DOT to Delay Driverless Car Rules December 9, 2016 Ride-sharing company Uber wants the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to delay policy recommendations that govern the testing of driverless cars....
Automated Cars, Trucks Threaten Professional Driver Jobs November 9, 2016 By PAUL WISEMAN and JOE MANDAK Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of...