Tag: autonomous vehicles

January 12, 2018

ONCE UPON A time, the Consumer Electronics Show was about personal gadgets: fancy phones, curving televisions, college-educated refrigerators. But in recent years cars have become the stars, and the auto industry has taken its place in Vegas. This week at […]

January 5, 2018

EVERY HUMAN WHO gets down with the Gregorian calendar can celebrate New Year’s Day, that rare 24-hour stretch when soldiering through a hangover is expected, and precious little work gets done. Too bad that this year, they only got one […]

December 18, 2017

A decade ago, the idea of hacking a car seemed about as feasible as downloading one. After all, cars were physical objects driven by people, with all their accompanying human flaws. Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) technology is making a […]

October 27, 2017

FOR A MOMENT there, Arizona was the place for autonomous vehicles learning to drive. It’s a logical starting point for experimental tech—still in its wobbly, Bambi legs stage—that likes warm weather, little rain, and wide open roads. It’s easier for […]

October 18, 2017

Elon Musk famously thinks that cars can be made to drive themselves without relying on expensive laser-ranging lidars. But while Tesla is moving ahead with one fewer sensor than most self-driving car companies, a new startup wants them to add […]

September 21, 2017

Recently, the “trolley problem,” a decades-old thought experiment in moral philosophy, has been enjoying a second career of sorts, appearing in nightmare visions of a future in which cars make life-and-death decisions for us. Among many driverless car experts, however, […]

May 3, 2017

Proterra announced it is initiating the industry’s first autonomous bus program with the University of Nevada, Reno and its Living Lab Coalition partners that includes the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County (RTC); the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles; the […]

March 13, 2017

In a bold attempt to regain its place as a self-driving pioneer, California today proposed regulations that would make it one of the first places in the world where autonomous vehicles could carry paying passengers without a licensed driver on […]

March 13, 2017

THE RACE TO build the first fleet of robot cars is heating up, but today it’s brainiac lawyers—not brainiac engineers—toiling in the pit. On Friday in a San Francisco district court, attorneys for Google self-driving car spinoff Waymo filed for a […]

March 8, 2017

The City of Boston’s newly released transportation plan is comprised of 58 transportation projects and policies that are designed to expand access to a variety of connected transportation options, improve traffic-related safety on Boston’s streets, and ensure reliability of service […]

February 24, 2017

UNTIL TODAY, THE race to build a self-driving car seemed to hinge on who had the best technology. Now it’s become a case of full-blown corporate intrigue. Alphabet’s self-driving startup, Waymo, is suing Uber, accusing the ridesharing giant of stealing […]

February 20, 2017

Earlier this week, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection held a hearing on Self-Driving Cars: Road to Deployment. I know, it sounds super boring, and most of it was: if you’ve been following the space for […]

January 30, 2017

WELCOME TO 2017, where it seems like the one thing elected leaders can maybe, perhaps, possibly agree on is that America’s infrastructure is busted. That, and that the only way to spruce things up is by flinging a trillion dollars […]

January 13, 2017

REMEMBER BLACKBERRY? THE folks with the clicky keyboards may have fled the hardware business, but the software side of the company lives on. And now it’s pushing hard into the car world, because cars are the new smartphones. From sophisticated […]

January 6, 2017

The U.S. Department of Transportation has selected a research consortium led by the New York University Tandon School of Engineering to become the first Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) in New York City, charged with taking on some of […]

December 28, 2016

As interest in the development of automated cars increases, public and media attention has focused on the speculative benefit of having an abundance of in-vehicle work and leisure time that would otherwise be spent driving. Although initial reports have suggested […]

December 23, 2016

Blackberry announced the opening of an innovation center that will focus on developing software for autonomous and connected vehicles. Experts predict that 50% of all cars will connect to the cloud by 2020, and the wide range of ‘connected things’ […]

December 22, 2016

Google’s newly independent self-driving car effort, are working together to figure out how to put the tech giant’s sensors and software into the automaker’s vehicles. The idea is to match the companies’ areas of expertise. Google can make a highly […]

December 12, 2016

YOU CAN HARDLY blame Michigan for trying to scarf down its piece of pie before someone swipes it off their plate. The Wolverine State just became one of the first in the country to formally give the thumbs-up to autonomous […]

November 22, 2016

nuTonomy, a developer of software for self-driving cars, announced it will begin testing its fleet of self-driving cars on specific public streets in a designated area of Boston. The company will begin testing its self-driving Renault Zoe electric vehicle before […]