Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo’s self-driving software footprint is expanding — this time in a partnership with Volvo Car Group. The two companies announced Thursday an “exclusive” partnership to integrate Waymo’s self-driving software into a new electric vehicle designed for ride-hailing. Volvo and Waymo provided few details on the partnership and what this might…

Dust storms make driving dicey, even for self-driving cars. Getty Meteorologists are closely following some mega-sized dust plumes that are slowly drifting from the Sahara Desert and for which those murky clouds have already descended upon the normally scenic Caribbean islands, causing tourists and locals alike to find themselves immersed…

Lyft is using data collected from drivers on its ride-hailing app to accelerate the development of self-driving cars. Lyft’s Level 5 self-driving car program is using the data to build 3D maps, understand human driving patterns and improve simulation tests — all tools needed to push their autonomous vehicle technology…

Lyft also explains that it conducts different kinds of tests to ensure the safety of its technology, including simulations, closed-course testing and on-road operations. At this point, the vehicles already being tested on the road have human operators and co-pilots onboard and are focused on collecting data and metrics. Finally,…

BMW and Mercedes may have also been too ambitious. When they announced the collaboration last July, they said their goal was to start selling Level 4 self-driving cars, with the ability to handle freeway driving and parking on their own, by 2024. Automotive executives like Ford CEO Jim Hackett have…

German automaker BMW has announced that it will freeze its self-driving technology development program with Mercedes-Benz after a steep plunge in demand for its vehicles due to the coronavirus. BMW will also get rid of 6,000 jobs, which accounts for 5% of its global employment force of 120,000 people. The…

Considering drive-by shootings in an era of self-driving cars. Getty Drive-by shootings continue to be in the news and seem to be occurring at an alarming pace. Those that undertake this heinous act are often doing so on the basis that they believe they will not be caught. Here’s why…

Interior of autonomous car. Driverless vehicle. Self driving. UGV. Advanced driver assistant system. Getty Federal safety regulators on Monday launched an effort to get companies working on autonomous vehicle technology to share more data about the limits of their systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is creating an online…

The Nokia 9.3 PureView will not use a kooky camera setup from Light. In fact, no other phone will either as the company behind the penta-camera of the previous PureView model is pulling out of the phone business. It looks like Light is refocusing on the car industry where the…

Gill Pratt, CEO Toyota Research Institute, speaks at the Toyota press conference during CES 2019 in ... Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7, 2019. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) AFP via Getty Images The automobile world is in quiet retreat on the topic of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). As…