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Latest Self-Driving Tech Stories

Foxconn Is Building an Autonomous Car Development Site in Michigan
By Eric Brandt / Updated Jun 11, 2019

Volkswagen Wants to Make People Carsick in Order to Find Solution for Motion Sickness
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated May 29, 2019

My Infant Daughter’s Life Shouldn’t Be a Variable In Tesla Autopilot’s Public Beta
By Jonathon Klein / Updated May 28, 2019

South Korea Building an Entire Town for Testing Self-Driving Cars
By Will Sabel Courtney / Updated May 27, 2019

GM Cruise Division’s New $1B Investment Sets Valuation at Staggering $19B
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated May 25, 2019

Publisher’s Statement on Alex Roy’s New Role at Argo AI
By Andrew Perlman / Updated May 25, 2019

Pearl Automation Is Going Out of Business, Report Says
By Justin Hughes / Updated May 23, 2019

USPS Self-Driving Trucks Will Soon Start Carrying Mail in Arizona and Texas
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated May 21, 2019

Tier One Partnerships Turn Austrian iPhone Supplier Into Solid-State LIDAR Player
By Bertel Schmitt / Updated May 21, 2019

Autonomous Driving Will Mean a Lot More Sex in Cars
By Neal Pollack / Updated May 20, 2019

Self Driving Safety Steps Into The Unknown
By Christopher Hart / Updated May 17, 2019

No, Nissan’s Position On Lidar Is Not The Same As Elon Musk’s
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated May 17, 2019

10 Lessons From Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated May 17, 2019

Nissan Takes On Tesla With Hands-Free ProPILOT 2.0
By Bertel Schmitt / Updated May 17, 2019

Toyota’s Tri-Ad Division Wants Open Source Maps to Guide the Self-Driving Cars of Tomorrow
By Bertel Schmitt / Updated May 17, 2019

Tesla Limits Autopilot In Europe Due To New UN/ECE Regulations
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated May 16, 2019

Feds Say Tesla’s Autopilot Engaged During Fatal Crash: Report
By Jonathon Klein / Updated May 16, 2019

Autonomous Waymo Vans Now Available On The Lyft App In Phoenix, Arizona
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated May 7, 2019

MIT Paper Tackles The Challenging Economics Of Autonomous Taxis
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated May 6, 2019

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Over Tesla Model X Crash That Killed Apple Engineer
By Chris Chin / Updated May 6, 2019

Driver in Fatal Tesla Autopilot Accident Got Several Warnings Before Crash
By Eric Brandt / Updated May 3, 2019

Autonomous Weed-Killing Robot Could be the Future of Farming
By Lawrence Ulrich / Updated May 2, 2019

South Korean LIDAR Software Startup Jumps On Renovo’s Middleware Bandwagon
By Bertel Schmitt / Updated Apr 30, 2019

Tesla Autopilot Thinks Everything Is A Minivan
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated Apr 26, 2019

Waymo Is Repurposing a Large-Scale Detroit Factory to Build Self-Driving Cars
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Apr 24, 2019

Tesla Network Promises One Million Robotaxis on the Road by 2020
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Apr 23, 2019

Watch a Tesla Model 3 Take Its First Fully Autonomous Drive on Public Roads
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Apr 23, 2019

Tesla’s Autonomy Day Presentation Leaves Biggest Questions Unanswered
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated Apr 22, 2019

Toyota and SoftBank Revive Uber’s Self-Driving Car Unit With $1B Investment
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Apr 19, 2019

Kia HabaNiro Concept Is a Spicy, Self-Driving EV That’s Confused About Its Own Existence
By Chris Tsui / Updated Apr 17, 2019

You Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot by Placing Small Stickers on the Ground, Study Finds
By Stef Schrader / Updated Apr 16, 2019

Ford CEO Dials Back Expectations for Autonomous Cars Due to ‘Complex Problems’
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Apr 11, 2019

Frequency of Tesla Autopilot Crashes Up, Human Error Down in Q1 2019
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Apr 10, 2019

5G Mobile Internet Is (Potentially) About to Revolutionize Transportation
By Eric Adams / Updated Apr 2, 2019

Daimler Trucks to Acquire Majority Stake in Autonomous-Driving Firm Torc Robotics
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 31, 2019

Electric Bus Builder Proterra’s Autonomous Systems Will Leave Room for Human Drivers
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 29, 2019

Watch a Pair of Tesla Model 3s Drive Themselves to Their Owners Via New ‘Enhanced Summon’
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Mar 23, 2019

GM to Invest $300M in Michigan Plant for EVs and Autonomous Vehicles: Report
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 22, 2019

Racist Self-Driving Cars Concerns Are (Well-Intentioned) Clickbait
By Courtney Ehrlichman / Updated Mar 21, 2019

New York City Is Getting Its First-Ever Autonomous Shuttle Service
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 21, 2019

Toyota Will Test Its Autonomous Cars in Nvidia’s New Self-Driving Car Simulator
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 19, 2019

New Nighttime Camera System Will Allow Autonomous Trucks to Increase Productivity
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 18, 2019

Three in Four Americans Are Afraid to Ride In a Self-Driving Car: AAA Study
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Mar 13, 2019

Musk Says Lowering Price Was a Mistake, Tesla to Also Increase Autopilot Cost
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Mar 12, 2019

Tesla Transforms “Full Self-Driving” and “Tesla Network” Language
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated Mar 7, 2019

Waymo Shakes Up The Sensor Space With “Laser Bear” Lidar
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated Mar 6, 2019

Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Pricing Controversy Misses The Point
By Edward Niedermeyer / Updated Mar 5, 2019

Tesla Puts Full Self-Driving Back on the Menu, but It’s Not What You Think
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Mar 4, 2019

MIT Claims New Tech Could Help Self-Driving Cars ‘See’ Through Fog and Dust
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Feb 15, 2019

Apple’s Semi-Autonomous Program Ranks Dead-Last in Human Intervention Statistics
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Feb 13, 2019

Tesla Model X Driver Says Autopilot ‘Wouldn’t Let Him Take Control’ Before Crashing
By Jerry Perez / Updated Feb 12, 2019

The Mystery of Tesla’s Autopilot-less European Model 3
By Bertel Schmitt / Updated Feb 11, 2019

Will Humans Still Drive in an Autonomous Future?
By Alex Roy / Updated Feb 11, 2019

Can Sully Transform the World of Self-Driving Cars?
By Alex Roy / Updated Feb 11, 2019

When Stanford Roboticists Review Tesla Autopilot, They Don’t Send Their Best
By Alex Roy / Updated Feb 11, 2019

Amazon Invests in Self-Driving Car Startup Aurora Innovation
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Feb 8, 2019

GM’s Cruise Self-Driving Car Division Lost $728 Million In 2018
By Stephen Edelstein / Updated Feb 8, 2019

The Right Path to Autonomy—and the Wrong One
By Alex Roy / Updated Feb 7, 2019