Alphabet launches U.S. ad campaign to promote driverless car safety

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit Waymo and several groups are launching a campaign aimed at convincing skeptical Americans of what they...

The US Postal Service Is Building a Self-Driving Mail Truck

Wired Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds-and...

Mapped: The Top 263 Companies Racing Toward Autonomous Cars

  Wired Forget dot coms and social networks. The hotspot for research and investment in Silicon Valley right now is the future of transport. Convince the...

G.M. Acquires Strobe, Start-Up Focused on Driverless Technology

The New York Times DETROIT — General Motors said on Monday that it had acquired a company that specializes in laser-imaging technology geared toward enhancing...

GM’s self-driving cars involved in six accidents in September

Reuters WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - General Motors Co’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, told California regulators its vehicles were involved in six crashes in the...

U.S. Senate panel puts self-driving cars in fast lane

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously gave the green light to a bill aimed at speeding the use of self-driving...

Self-driving taxis are coming to residential neighborhoods

The Verge Most experts agree that robot cars will first roll out as fleets of self-driving taxis in controlled environments — college campuses, business parks,...

Don’t shut trucks out of the driverless vehicle future

Washington Examiner A law that would, for the first time, create a federal regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles is speeding down the legislative highway....

GM and Cruise announce first mass-production self-driving car

TechCrunch Kyle Vogt, CEO and founder of Cruise Automation, revealed very big news for his company and its owner GM, which acquired the startup last...

Judge delays Waymo/Uber trial until December 4th

TechCrunch This morning, Judge William Alsup ruled that the Waymo v. Uber trial would be delayed until December 4th. The trial had initially been expected...

Ford And Lyft Partner to Bring Self-Driving Cars to Public Roads

Fortune Ford Motor has struck a partnership with Lyft to develop and test self-driving vehicles...

Mobile World Congress Americas Features Connected and Autonomous Panels

While last week’s Mobile World Congress-Americas in San Francisco would hardly be mistaken for an auto tech show, it featured several panels on connected...

Waymo clarifies it actually wants $1.8 billion from Uber

TechCrunch Last week, Uber’s legal team told Judge William Alsup that Waymo was seeking $2.6 billion for an allegedly stolen trade secret related to the company’s...

Waymo Seeks to Delay Trial in Uber Trade Secrets Lawsuit

CNET Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, is asking a federal judge to postpone the trial of a trade secret lawsuit against...

Tesla Autopilot ‘partly to blame’ for Crash

BBC The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that Tesla's Autopilot system was partly to blame for a fatal accident in which a...

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....