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....

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...