Robot Ride Fears Escalate Following High-Profile Roadway Deaths May 25, 2018 By Keith Naughton Consumer trust in self-driving cars has plummeted following high-profile roadway fatalities, with almost three-quarters of Americans now saying they are...
Self-Driving Cars Find Smoother Path to Regulation in U.K., Germany Than U.S. May 15, 2018 By Ma Jie and David Welch Cars that drive themselves are finding the clearest paths to showrooms in the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Singapore, where...
Lyft, Aptiv to Launch Self-Driving Car Program in Las Vegas May 8, 2018 Ride-hailing service Lyft is partnering with an automotive technology company to deploy a fleet of 30 self-driving cars to the...
Waymo Leads Self-Driving Car Race May 8, 2018 By David Welch and Elisabeth Behrmann In the race to start the world’s first driving business without human drivers, everyone is chasing Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo. The...
Crashes Seem to Slow Self-Driving Car Pioneers’ Progress May 3, 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...
Researcher Says Autonomous Vehicles Are Traveling the Wrong Road to Safety April 12, 2018 The current method of programming autonomous vehicles may not be safe, according to Aviral Shrivastava, a computer science associate professor...
Senator Wants More Safeguards for Self-Driving Cars April 6, 2018 By SUSAN HAIGH U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who took a firsthand look at self-driving vehicle technology on Tuesday, said it was frightening to...
Rivals Warn About Cutting Corners After Uber, Tesla Crashes March 29, 2018 By Keith Naughton, John Lippert and Gabrielle Coppola As the global auto industry vies to deploy driverless cars, some contenders may be cutting corners in a bid to...
Liability in Uber Deadly Crash May Turn on Victim’s Steps March 22, 2018 Uber Technologies Inc.’s potential liability for the death of a woman hit and killed in Arizona by a self-driving car...
Solar Storms Are Driverless Cars’ Cosmic Weakness March 16, 2018 By Kyle Stock and Brian K Sullivan Self-driving cars are still working to master the snow. It turns out that excessive sun can also pose a problem...