The self-driving car owned by Uber that fatally struck a woman in March detected her in the road about six seconds before the crash, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, which also acknowledged delayed responses from the vehicleâs automatic emergency braking system.
The New Yorker has a very long profile out today on Uberâs CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, that focuses on his effort to transition the company away from the unseemly culture fostered by its previous leader, Travis Kalanick. Way at the bottom is a mention to this monthâs terrible story involving an Uber-owned autonomous carâŚ
Uber has halted testing of its self-driving cars after a deadly accident involving one of them occurred late Sunday in Tempe, Arizona. An Uber vehicle traveling in autonomous mode struck a woman crossing the street. She died after being taken to the hospital.
It seems super boxy, fully-autonomous concepts are all the rage these days. And now thereâs a new startup looking to join the fray. Nuro.ai, started by two former Google engineers, revealed a driverless prototype thatâs designed to handle low-speed, last-mile deliveries. Think dry cleaning or food.
Americans are somewhat starting to warm up to the idea of fully-autonomous vehicles, but, interestingly, less drivers are interested in having their new cars equipped with semi-autonomous technology like Teslaâs Autopilot or General Motorsâ Super Cruise. Thatâs according to a new study from the American AutomobileâŚ
The majority of self-driving tech testing is happening on the pristine streets of sunny California, but across the Pacific, autonomous tech developers in Russia are also working to make robot cars a reality. But in the hellish driving environments found in Moscow, thatâs not an easy feat, as a fascinating story from The Guardian recounts.
After scaling back its ambitious car plans in 2016, Apple spent this year quietly immersing itself in the field of self-driving cars, and a new patent shows the companyâs thinking of more efficient ways for autonomous vehicles to get around.
If thereâs one thing that came sharply into focus this year, itâs that most of the automotive industry has bought into the idea that autonomous and electric cars are the way of the future. Notice I said the word âideaâ thereâexactly how that future will look, whether buyers will embrace it and how it will make moneyâŚ
Last week, a driverless shuttle in Las Vegas had its inaugural day of operation derailed, when a truck backed into it at a super-slow speed. The minor bump may seem inconsequential, but since it involved an autonomous vehicle and a human motoristâa notable concern as more automated cars hit the roadâregulators areâŚ
Earlier this week, a truck backed into a driverless shuttle in Las Vegas during the shuttleâs first hour of operation. Was it at all the robot shuttleâs fault? No! Jesus.
The Chinese-backed electric vehicle startup NIO raised more than $1 billion in its latest fundraising round, Reuters reported on Wednesday, breaking away from a crowded field of young Chinese-funded car firms whoâve notably struggled to raise money for their own ambitious endeavors.
On Wednesday, a driverless shuttle debuted in Las Vegas. The shuttle, made by the French company Navya ARMA, began a route looping it around Vegasâs downtown. Within an hour, the shuttle was already involved in a crash.
A billion dollars for a self-driving tech company? Itâs not unheard of anymore. But a new report from the Brookings Institute sheds light on just how much loot has been spent on the race to bring fully-autonomous cars to the public. The total, so far: $80 billion.
Between the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board weighing in on the probable cause of a fatal Tesla crash and the U.S. Transportation Secretary issuing new voluntary guidelines on how to deploy self-driving cars, today has been crazy busy on the autonomous vehicle front. Thereâs more to share, though: theâŚ
Ever since being appointed by President Trump to run the U.S. transportation department, Secretary Elaine Chao has said her agency would update a set of voluntary guidelines issued by her predecessor on how automakers should test and deploy self-driving cars. On Tuesday, already a jam-packed day for automated tech inâŚ
Autonomous tech start-ups have offered a number of waysâall of which they believe to be the most appropriate and correctâto approach the development of self-driving cars. A new company out of the United Kingdom, FiveAI, has a fresh take, though: CCTV cameras.
Elaine Chao, the U.S. Transportation Secretary, has said for months that her department would release new voluntary guidelines for self-driving cars. Now, the waitâs about to end, reports Reuters. The revamped guidelines are set to be released next week.
Driverless cars promise to save lives by driving better than constantly-texting, easily-distracted, sometimes-even-intoxicated humans, butâlike any married couple knowsâthe cars canât reach their true potential if they donât communicate with each other.
In a rare display of German automaker camaraderie, Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz will contribute data from millions of vehicles to build a fancy, real-time traffic map service.
The Federal Communications Commission just quintupled the allocation of the radio spectrum for motor vehicle use, a move paving the way for advanced, self-driving car innovation, Reuters reported. But what do driverless cars have to do with radio frequencies? A lot, it turns out.
