Tag: Self-Driving

October 27, 2022

U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Tesla Inc. made misleading claims about the capabilities of its Autopilot driver assistance system, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Justice Department’s Washington and San Francisco offices are probing statements by the […]

April 9, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is once again drawing scrutiny for questionable comments he made to Wall Street analysts, this time involving the status of his company’s vehicle production. On a Jan. 27 conference call to discuss Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings, Musk […]

June 2, 2020

Argo AI, the self-driving startup tightly aligned with Ford Motor Co., completed an expected tie-up with Volkswagen AG involving a $2.6 billion investment from the German automaker. VW’s investment includes a $1 billion cash infusion and the folding of its […]

March 26, 2020

SINCE AN INTERNET search company named Google began testing self-driving vehicles more than a decade ago, the still-in-development technology has faced a niggling issue: The federal vehicle safety rules that govern car design assume that a human sits behind the […]

January 7, 2020

A PIONEERING SELF-DRIVING CAR LAWYER ON THE STATE OF REGULATION: Estrada has been on the cutting edge of transportation tech for years. He helped write the first-in-the-nation autonomous vehicle legislation in Nevada in 2011, while working for Google’s secretive X […]

September 20, 2019

After several years of fanfare and debate over when and how self-driving commercial vehicles would reach the market, early forms of this technology are beginning to become an option in new trucks. The first trucks equipped with auto­mated steering features […]

August 27, 2019

The Fate of the Furious doesn’t really get crazy until the movie’s villain, played by Charlize Theron, tells her hacker minions to “make it rain.” A few obedient keystrokes later and empty cars are flinging themselves from a high-rise parking […]

April 3, 2019

Volkswagen AG has started testing five electric and highly-automated versions of its Golf compact cars on the streets of Hamburg, Germany. The vehicles, equipped with safety drivers as well as lasers, radars and scanners, will navigate a 3-kilometer area in […]

March 14, 2019

Seven in 10 Americans don’t want to go anywhere near self-driving cars. The portion of Americans who fear autonomous vehicles — 71% in AAA’s latest survey — virtually is unchanged from a year ago and up 8 percentage points from […]

January 24, 2019

REALLY, IT WAS only a matter of time before somebody thought to combine today’s hottest transportation trends: shared electric scooters and autonomous driving. Over the weekend, Uber reportedly unveiled a micromobility robotics division at a robotics meetup in the Bay […]

December 12, 2018

Negotiations on the Senate’s self-driving car bill, S. 1885 (115), are rolling along slowly. Our Tanya Snyder reported Tuesday that the group representing trial lawyers — whose problems with the legislation have been one of the factors holding it up […]

November 12, 2018

Congress returns this week to kick off a jam-packed lame duck session. In the House, Democrats are rejuvenated and Republicans are staring down the reality of at least two years in the minority wilderness. And the GOP Senate majority is […]

October 3, 2018

Daimler AG and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance see opportunities to collaborate on mobility offerings as well as connected and self-driving cars, a move that would push their partnership into new territory. Daimler and Renault-Nissan started working together eight years ago in […]

September 5, 2018

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is adding more muscle to its self-driving vehicle testing efforts. The company will spend more than $30 million at a new testing and development facility at its Chelsea Proving Grounds west of Detroit. Testing begins this month […]

May 17, 2018

Just last year, Apple was in the backseat of an increasingly crowded competition for self-driving cars with Google-owned Waymo, Tesla and Uber vying for an edge. Apple had just three permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to operate […]

May 3, 2018

A fleet of 30 driverless BMW 5 Series vehicles are about to hit the streets of Las Vegas. Building off a successful test run during the Consumer Electronics Show in January, when the cars navigated passengers among predetermined sites and […]

April 3, 2018

California began accepting applications April 2 for permits to deploy self-driving cars on public roads without a human backup driver at the wheel. Recent fatal crashes by a self-driving Uber car in Arizona and a Tesla car operating in semiautonomous […]

March 28, 2018

As the global auto industry vies to deploy driverless cars, some contenders may be cutting corners in a bid to get ahead, warned Jack Hollis, group vice president of U.S. sales for the Toyota brand. “Some competitors, not by name […]

March 26, 2018

The companies and officials influencing the development of self-driving technology offered a wide variety of reactions to the death of a pedestrian struck by an Uber autonomous vehicle March 18. Uber Technologies Inc. suspended the testing of its self-driving cars […]

March 16, 2018

Ride-hailing company Lyft is joining with large Canadian auto parts supplier Magna to develop self-driving vehicles, sharing expenses on a multi-year project that could vault them onto the leader board in autonomous technology. The companies announced the partnership March 14 […]