Self-driving Vehicles

Self-driving vehicles always look cool on TV and films but getting them right in real life no easy task. Considering the human lives involved, autopilot systems are often put under intense scrutiny to ensure nothing goes terribly wrong. Unfortunately, things do go wrong to different degrees, and, fortunately for one…

Do we want AI to decide on harming humans? Getty Quite a harrowing moment occurred recently when a man with a rifle started randomly shooting at people while standing on the Centennial Bridge in Leavenworth, Missouri. A Kansas soldier that happened to be driving his car on the bridge, waiting…

Amazon is expected to move into the transportation field, coming into direct competition with ... carmakers. (Photo illustration byJakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Jeff Bezos’s net worth jumped nearly 5% last month after Amazon’s stock hit a record high when the e-commerce leader registered unprecedented demand…

Waymo’s self-driving minivans will return to San Francisco Bay Area streets, three months after the company stopped public testing of its autonomous vehicles due to the coronavirus pandemic.Waymo plans to relaunch its fleet of self-driving minivans into Bay Area streets on June 8, according to an email acquired by The…

This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. Amazon's reported interest in the autonomous-driving startup Zoox may signal a desire to one day launch a robo-taxi service, Morgan Stanley said in a note to clients published on Wednesday.The retail giant could offer…

Controversy over vote-by-mail will continue in an era of self-driving cars. Getty There is a lot of controversy about ballot harvesting. First, some prefer to call it ballot collecting, since the word “harvesting” seems ominous and suggests a foul act. Others insist that due to the potential for the underhanded…

Last year, AI development company Cognitive Technologies installed its self-driving systems into combine harvesters operated by Russia's largest agro holding company. The pilot proved successful, and the technology will now be rolled out to 242 combines over the next year or so.The joint venture between Cognitive, Sherbank and Rusagro will…

The Tesla Model 3. Hollis Johnson/Business Insider When we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, some of us may take the plunge on car ownership.It's going to be easy to buy or lease a gas-powered vehicles, but the time couldn't be better for checking out an electric car.To that end, Tesla…

Decades of war, political chaos, desperate poverty, and now coronavirus.A perfect storm has gathered over one of the world’s most benighted nations, Afghanistan, where ordinary citizens are facing a fresh form of misery.Taliban militants have announced they will keep fighting since they say there have been no confirmed cases of…

Tesla is once again raising the price of its “Full Self-Driving” option of its Autopilot system on its cars by $1,000 as of July 1, with CEO Elon Musk hinting that this price increase won’t be the last. That means that Tesla customers placing their orders on said date and…