self-driving car

Video surfaced on social media showing a self-driving car – a Cruise car – getting pulled over by police in San Francisco, and its getting a lot of reactions.

A video showing a self-driving car getting pulled over by police in San Francisco has thousands of views and shares on social media. Stephanie Magallon reports.

Last August, Vince Patton was watching a YouTube video of a Tesla owner who had made a startling observation: Tesla drivers could now play a video game on their car’s touch-screen dashboard — while the vehicle is moving

A former engineer in Google’s self-driving division who became the focus of a criminal investigation that rocked Silicon Valley has pleaded guilty to a count of trade secrets theft, NBC News reports.

Less than a week after NBC Bay Area published an investigation finding more than a dozen possible shell companies may have provided false employment records to thousands of foreign students, one of those companies filed paperwork in Nevada to legally dissolve.

A months-long joint investigation between NBC Bay Area and NBC News found thousands of foreign students may have used false employment records at more than a dozen potential shell companies to illegally stay in the country after attending American universities. Stephen Stock reports on a story that first aired Wednesday, Nov. 27.

A driver of a self-driving car was caught sleeping behind the wheel on the 5 freeway in Santa Clarita. This is not the first documented instance of sleeping while driving, with nappers caught mid-snooze on the 405 and on the way to Anaheim.

If you’ve driven on Highway 101 in the Bay Area, you’ve probably seen jagged lane stripes that stretch from San Francisco to the South Bay. Now, Caltrans is responding to drivers confused about what happened.

Google parent Alphabet beat analyst earnings expectations but fell short on revenue, sending its stock down more than 7% in after-hours trading.

Karl Brauer literally wrote the book on car prices.

The autonomous Uber SUV that struck and killed an Arizona pedestrian in March spotted the woman about six seconds before hitting her, but did not stop because the system used to automatically apply brakes in potentially dangerous situations had been disabled, according to federal investigators.

Uber is pulling its self-driving cars out of Arizona, a reversal triggered by the recent death of woman who was run over by one of the ride-hailing service’s robotic vehicles while crossing a darkened street in a Phoenix suburb.

In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver’s seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that’s been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the lives of the visually impaired. “It was my...

Warning: the contents of this video may be disturbing to viewers, viewer discretion is advised. The Tempe, Arizona, police department on Wednesday released footage of the Sunday crash in which an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian. Uber has suspended testing of self-driving vehicles on public U.S. roads.

Google’s parent company is throwing its financial support behind ride-hailing service Lyft, deepening its rift with market leader Uber. Alphabet Inc., which gets most of its money from Google’s digital ad network, is leading a $1 billion investment in Lyft that values the privately held company at $11 billion. The investment announced Thursday is being made through Alphabet’s CapitalG venture...

A new study inspired by Boston’s early experiments with self-driving cars finds that the technology could ease congestion, but might also lead to more cars on the road and further encourage urban sprawl. The report, released Tuesday by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum, is a mostly optimistic take on how autonomous vehicles could change cities. Three...

Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, is alleging Uber stole its mapping technology. The suit accuses a former Waymo employee of taking documents to start a self-driving truck company, which Uber later acquired.

A legal battle over self-driving technology will head to a San Francisco courtroom. Google’s Waymo accuses Uber of ripping off key pieces of its self-driving car technology in 2016, charges Uber denies.

In the race to the self-driving future, Lyft has agreed to work with Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Google’s parent company, to bring autonomous vehicles to the masses, both companies told NBC News on Sunday night....
The announcement comes as Waymo has accused Lyft’s biggest competitor, Uber, of stealing trade secrets from the company to advance its own self-driving...

Uber’s self-driving cars will return to California’s streets, though the ride-hailing company doesn’t immediately plan to pick up passengers.