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...

Self-driving Chevy Bolts will roam New York City streets next year

Recode New York City’s streets will get their first extensive test of self driving cars starting next year. General Motors will operate a handful of semi-driverless...