Will NHTSA’s Connected Car Mandate Crash and Burn?

Morning Consult The Trump administration appears to be pumping the brakes on a mandate that would have required automakers to install vehicle-to-vehicle communications devices in...

Self-Driving Trucks Deliver Refrigerators

Wired If you live in Southern California and you've ordered one of those fancy new smart refrigerators in the past few weeks, it may have...

Arizona Shaping Up to be Top Autonomous Vehicle Test Location

The New York Times PHOENIX - Three weeks into his new job as Arizona's governor, Doug Ducey made a move that won over Silicon Valley...

U.S. safety board to probe self-driving shuttle crash in Las Vegas

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal transportation safety officials headed to Las Vegas on Friday to investigate a collision this week between a self-driving shuttle bus...

Starting today, you can now take a driverless bus down the...

Business Insider Navy ARMA's driverless bus will begin shuttling passengers along a half-mile route in downtown Las Vegas.  The bus has driven Las Vegas's streets before —...

Alphabet Launches the First Taxi Service With No Human Drivers

Bloomberg For almost a decade, self-driving cars have graced public roads -- but always with a person behind the wheel. Now Waymo is yanking the...

Waymo’s $1.86B Damages Estimate Imperiled By Judge

LAW.COM Updated 12 p.m. 11/6/17 with material from the unsealed decision.  SAN FRANCISCO —The judge presiding over Waymo’s driverless car trade secrets case against Uber has...

How Driverless Cars Could Drive Even Deeper Economic Inequality

Fast Company By Ralph McLaughlin The reports of suburbia’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The emergence of driverless cars–like past innovations in transportation technology–will actually put...

AutoNation announces Waymo fleet repair deal, shares jump

Reuters (Reuters) - U.S. auto retailer AutoNation Inc (AN.N) announced a multi-year partnership on Thursday to support Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit, including...

Trump administration working to update driverless vehicle guidance

The Hill The Trump administration is already in the process of updating its federal guidance for driverless vehicles, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Thursday. The Department...

China’s Baidu teams up with Shouqi on driverless cars: Xinhua

Reuters Baidu (BIDU.O) will provide Shouqi with its Baidu Map service, while Shouqi will help Baidu develop high-precision maps for self-driving cars. Baidu will also offer...

Toyota will test autonomous cars at California’s GoMentum station

TechCrunch Toyota’s Research Institute will test its autonomous vehicle tech at GoMentum Station, a 5,000 acre proving ground for self-driving vehicle tech located in Concord,...

Super Hacker George Hotz: I Can Make Your Car Drive Itself...

Reason Full interview at link above... George Hotz, known online as GeoHot, became one of the world's most famous hackers at 17 when he was the...

2017 Connected Cars & Autonomous Vehicles Survey

Foley and Lardner Click abover for 15-page executive summary.

New ITSA President

ITSA Click above for full bio/news release... Solid transportation department official.  But another government exec running the transportation association?  Will this organization/its trade show/membership grow without private...

Automakers are making big investments in a key piece of self-driving-car...

Business Insider ArgoAI — in which Ford has $1 billion invested — acquired Princeton Lightwave for an undisclosed amount. The deal follows GM's purchase...

Self-driving startups race down a narrowing road

Reuters DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lei Xu and Justin Song once worked at electric carmaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), one of the hottest companies in Silicon...

Delphi Acquires nuTonomy For $450 Million, Advancing Push For Automated Driving

Forbes Over the past half-decade, countless startups have appeared on the landscape with the hope of disrupting the more-than-century-old automotive industry with automated driving. Increasingly,...

Watch this autonomous bulldozer excavate dirt without a human operator

The Verge Link to video... We have self-driving cars, self-driving trucks, self-driving boats, and self-driving buses, so it was only a matter of time before we...

Alphabet Unit Leads $1 Billion Investment in Lyft

Bloomberg Lyft Inc. raised $1 billion in a deal that values the ride-sharing startup at $11 billion, steps up competition with rival Uber Technologies Inc. and...