GM Mass Produces Self-Driving Bolts, Boosts Test Fleet June 15, 2017 By DEE-ANN DURBIN General Motors Co. says it has built 130 self-driving Chevrolet Bolt electric cars at a factory in suburban Detroit, making...
Self-Driving Cars May Hit the Road Next Year June 8, 2017 By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next...
Self-Driving Cars to Add $81B in New Auto Insurance Premiums by 2025 May 19, 2017 Insurance coverage for autonomous vehicles will bring US$81 billion in new premiums to the U.S. auto insurance industry over the...
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...
Teaching Self-Driving Cars Quirky Rules of the Road a Challenge May 12, 2017 By Tom Krisher In just a few years, well-mannered self-driving robotaxis will share the roads with reckless, law-breaking human drivers. The prospect is...
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,...
Waymo’s Autonomous Cars Get First Real Drivers in Phoenix April 26, 2017 By Mark Bergen After almost a decade of research, Google’s autonomous car project is close to becoming a real service. Now known as...
Young Tech Prodigy Touts Better Lidar for Self-Driving Cars April 17, 2017 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Austin Russell, now 22, was barely old enough to drive when he set out to create a safer navigation system...
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...
Arizona Self-Driving Car Crash Renews Debate on Regulations March 30, 2017 By BOB CHRISTIE and JOSH HOFFNER A crash that caused an Uber self-driving SUV to flip onto its side in a Phoenix suburb serves as a...