self-driving technology

Commuters on Bay Area roadways likely are in the company of other drivers with some sort of self-driving features on their vehicle But, are they safe?

Commuters on Bay Area roadways likely are in the company of other drivers with some sort of self-driving features on their vehicles. But, are they safe? An expert from the TechCrunch Mobility conference shows different takes on the technology.

Commuters on Bay Area roadways likely are in the company of other drivers with some sort of self-driving features on their vehicles. But, are they safe? An expert from the TechCrunch Mobility conference demonstrates different takes on the technology.

Daimler Trucks and allied vehicle software company Torc Robotics announced Thursday the expansion of testing for self-driving trucks to public roads in New Mexico along major long-haul freight routes. The companies have established a new testing center in Albuquerque, as they begin automated runs for 18-wheel vehicles with autonomous diving technology on public highways — supported by a human driver…

Federal regulators on Thursday cleared the way for a Mountain View startup to use self-driving robot vehicles on the nation’s roads for its grocery delivery service, the company announced in its blog.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees in a company-wide email Thursday that $2 billion in new funds raised this month were only enough to get through 10 months if Tesla keeps spending as it did in the first quarter of 2019. He requested that everyone at the company take “hardcore” measures to pull back on spending. Musk wrote in the...

A self-driving shuttle got pulled over by police on its first day carrying passengers on a new Rhode Island route. Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements says an officer pulled over the odd-looking autonomous vehicle because he had never seen one before.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to start converting the company’s electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles next year as part of an audacious plan to create a network of robotic taxis to compete against Uber and other ride-hailing services. The vision sketched out Monday during an event at Tesla’s Silicon Valley headquarters requires several leaps of faith — something that...

Lyft’s shares soared as the company went public Friday, giving investors their first chance to bet on the future of the ride-hailing industry. The stock opened at $87.24, up 21 percent from its offering price of $72. It closed at $78.29, up 8.7 percent, giving the company a $27 billion valuation.

Law enforcement returned to class Wednesday to get a lesson in self-driving technology.

Waymo plans to keep testing its driverless cars on Bay Area roads.

A driver whose sedan collided with a self-driving vehicle owned by Waymo in Arizona has been cited for running a red light, police in a Phoenix suburb said. Chandler Police Department spokesman Seth Tyler said that the Waymo-owned Chrysler minivan was in manual mode and slowing for the red light when the collision occurred Friday.

Police in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler are investigating a collision involving a self-driving vehicle owned by the company Waymo.

Self-driving car spinoff Waymo will buy up to 20,000 electric vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover to help realize its vision for a robotic ride-hailing service.

A high-profile legal between Uber and Google-spin-off Waymo, which accuses the ride-hailing company of stealing its self-driving car technology, came to a close Friday after the two companies reached a settlement.

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...

Apple will begin testing self-driving car technology in California, its first public move into a highly competitive field that could radically change transportation.

Cars with no steering wheel, no pedals and nobody at all inside could be driving themselves on California roads by the end of the year, under proposed state rules that would give a powerful boost to the fast-developing technology.

Self-driving cars hold the promise of saving thousands of lives each year on U.S. roads. But does pointing out flaws with the technology effectively put people in danger?