A Life And Death Question For Regulators: Is Tesla’s Autopilot Safe? September 21, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin, Mike Spector and David Shepardson Robin Geoulla had doubts about the automated driving technology equipped on his Tesla Model S when he bought the electric...
Money, Mimicry and Mind Control: Big Tech Slams Ethics Brakes on AI September 9, 2021 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO — In September last year, Google’s cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm...
Drunk-Driver Detectors for Cars Mandated in Infrastructure Bill August 3, 2021 By Keith Laing and Lillianna Byington New cars will be required to have technology to detect drunk drivers and a system to keep children from being...
California Tests Off-the-Grid Solutions to Power Outages July 1, 2021 By Daisy Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge...
U.S. to Seek Automated Braking Requirement for Heavy Trucks June 14, 2021 By Tom Krisher DETROIT (AP) — In a reversal from Trump administration policies, U.S. auto safety regulators say they will move to require...
Tesla Tells Regulator That Full Self-Driving Cars May Not Be Achieved by Year-End May 7, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Tesla Inc told a California regulator that it may not achieve full self-driving technology by the end...
UK Government Green Lights ‘Self-Driving’ Cars on Motorways April 28, 2021 By Nick Carey LONDON — The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving...
‘Big Storage’ Is the Next Big Technology in the Climate Fight March 30, 2021 By Eric Roston If the last 10 years of happy developments in solar power, wind turbines, batteries and electric vehicles have taught us...
Alphabet’s Waymo Says Its Tech Would Avoid Fatal Human Crashes March 9, 2021 By Ed Ludlow The autonomous-car artificial intelligence from Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo avoided or mitigated crashes in most of a set of virtually recreated...
Fighting Climate Change in America Means Changes to America February 1, 2021 By Seth Borenstein Climate isn’t the only thing changing. What comes next in the nation’s struggle to combat global warming will probably transform...