Chao Outlines Voluntary Industry Guidance for Autonomous Vehicles

Recode U.S. DOT secretary Elaine Chao just introduced the second version of voluntary guidance for the deployment and testing of self-driving cars. Chao, who spoke in...

The Death of the Car Show?

Reuters Frankfurt's vast auto show, which opens next week, is already getting attention of the wrong kind - for its impressive list of no-shows. Besides the...

Lyft to Offer Rides in Self-Driving Cars in San Francisco Area

Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A self-driving car will soon be one ride option available from Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, as the...

Self-Driving Cars’ Prospects Rise With Vote by House

The New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the House took a major step on Wednesday toward advancing the development of driverless cars, approving legislation...

Who Leads the Autonomous Driving Patent Race?

Statista These days the broad consensus on the future of driving seems to be that the car of tomorrow will be (at least partly) autonomous....

Why BigTech (Apple, Google) Is Scaling Back on Self-Driving Cars

Hackernoon I originally published a version of this post in June 2016. This update, with the recent news, further confirms some of the assumptions I...

Domino’s and Ford Test Autonomous Delivery Vehicle

The New York Times ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In the race to develop self-driving cars, much of the attention has focused on ferrying people. But...

What Business Models Will Drive Autonomous Vehicles?

TechCrunch “The technology is essentially here… We have machines that can make a bunch of quick decisions that could drastically reduce traffic fatalities, drastically improve...

Driverless cars could see humankind sprawl ever further into the countryside

The Conversation Self-driving cars will change how we live, in all sorts of ways. But they won’t just affect us humans – the coming revolution...

Autonomous Vehicles Transform Work, Travel, Live…

Medium The road ahead: beyond self-driving Autonomous vehicles will trigger new services and changes that transform the way we work, travel and live Many autonomous vehicle discussions...

Inside Waymo’s Autonomous Vehicle Testing

The Atlantic Read the story at The Atlantic...

Apple Scales Back Autonomous Driving Efforts

The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — As new employees were brought into Apple’s secret effort to create a self-driving car a few years ago,...

World War II Factory to open in December as Autonomous Vehicle...

Bloomberg Self-driving cars will begin taking test laps this December on the site of a famous World War II airplane factory in Michigan where Rosie the...

NTSB to Vote on Tesla Crash Cause

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will vote at a Sept. 12 hearing on the probable cause of a May 2016...

Ford CEO Not Convinced 2021 is Autonomous Rollout Year

Fortune Ford is reviewing its plans for rolling out autonomous vehicles, chief executive Jim Hackett has said.

A judge said Uber can’t present a key argument in the...

Recode A judge has ruled that Uber can’t present a key argument in its defense against an Alphabet lawsuit. It’s a potential blow to the ride-hail...

Feds Release Autonomous Vehicle Employment Impact

http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/Employment%20Impact%20Autonomous%20Vehicles_0.pdf

The judge in the Uber-Waymo case suggests Uber lawyers ‘misled the...

CNBC San Francisco district judge William Alsup said in a hearing on Wednesday he'll likely tell the jury that Uber lawyers "misled the court" and...

Levandowski Urges Kalanick to Criticize Musk

Bloomberg The former engineer at the center of Uber’s self-driving car legal troubles urged ex-Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to criticize Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk...

Waymo Gets New Policy Chief

Axios Alphabet's self-driving branch is getting some more Washington firepower. Waymo has hired Senate Commerce Committee staffer David Quinalty as its new Head of Federal...