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Google is already testing its autonomous cars on the roads of California, and plenty of other manufacturers are starting to muscle in on the act, too. But when they hit the roads, how do you go about policing a city full of self-driven cars? More »
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Google won a U.S. patent for its autonomous-vehicle system, paving the way for us dumb meat pods to be eliminated from the driving process. The patent applies to how the system switches from person control to machine control using "smart" parking spaces. More »
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The chilling transcripts from Air France 447 reveal the central conflict dooming the 228 people aboard the plane was not between two inexperienced pilots, but between a pilot and the technology that was supposed to keep him safe that he didn't understand. More »
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American drivers, like cigarettes, are immoral — waiting to kill us like cancer, and should be replaced by cars that drive themselves. So says Netscape co-founder and self-styled techno-futurist Mark Andreessen. More »
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This photo of what looks like a minor case of Prius-on-Prius vehicular violence may actually be a piece of automotive history: the first accident caused by Google's self-driving car. Whose name should the cop write down on the ticket? UPDATE! More »
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Researchers successfully tested a Volvo "slaved" to a truck in a test of technology designed to let drivers focus on anything but driving. The goal is to create "platoons" of undriven cars to lower congestion and boost safety. Scary. [BBCNews] More »
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From new technology to social change, the events of the past 12 months will impact cars and transportation for years to come. Here's ten ways we predict 2010 changed the future of what you'll drive. More »
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Although California bans hand-held cell phone use by drivers, and testers of Google self-driving vehicles are legally considered to be "drivers," one Google engineer is still illegally and dangerously reaching out to touch somebody. More »
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Google's project to design driverless vehicles raised several questions about the future of driving. But it also raised a more topical question: Are Google's heavily-modified driverless vehicle prototypes even legal? We found out. More »
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Yesterday we told you Google's secretly developing a driverless car and even logged over 140,000 miles on U.S. public roads. Today we've got video of a Google autonomous car driving normal California highways with nobody at the wheel. Eerie! More »
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Google today revealed a secret project to develop driverless cars, saying its test vehicles had driven 140,000 miles using software, sensors and a human minder. Google CEO Eric Schmidt wasn't kidding; Google believes people shouldn't drive. More »
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Later, Kip and Sally would use a mechanically correct doll of the driverless car to show policemen exactly where it touched them. [Photo Credit: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5335100&view=rss&microfeed=true We'll be there live on Tuesday when GM CEO "Slick" Rick Wagoner gives the keynote address at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas — and boy are we glad we're going. We're hearing the General's main man will devote part of his speech to GM's desire to really create KITT from Knight Rider. No, not an advanced crime-fighting vehicle with turbo boost, rather, a driverless car — and one that could be ready for sale within a decade using technology described in the above video from earlier this year. At least that's what Business Week is reporting this evening. More after the jump — but seriously how prescient was our posting of the new 30-second Knight Rider commercial earlier? More »
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