Self-driving Vehicles

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…

General Motors is developing a more advanced version of its Super Cruise driver-assistance system under the internal codename of ‘Ultra Cruise.’ While speaking at Citi’s 2020 Car of the Future Symposium, GM executive vice president of global product development Doug Parks said the aim of Ultra Cruise will be to…

GM has a "big team" working on an advanced version of its hands-free driving assistance system, Super Cruise, that will expand its capability beyond highways and apply it to city streets, the automaker's vice president of global product development Doug Parks said Tuesday. GM is also continuing to improve its…

As the electric-car maker's driver-assist software package moves closer to being truly full self-driving, the company is raising its price. Elon Musk has said the vehicles Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is selling today could become appreciating assets over time. We're starting to see a preview of what the CEO means by that. The…

Roundup The world of artificial intelligence keeps on turning: here's a summary of what's been going down. Nvidia A100 in the cloud: Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) was particularly eventful this year as CEO Jensen Huang unveiled Ampere, the architecture powering its next-gen hardware, while speaking from his kitchen at…

An EasyMile shuttle carries passengers at Texas Southern U. EasyMile (TSU) EasyMile is a company that makes low-speed self-driving shuttle vehicles that are popular with local agencies trying to experiment with self-driving transportation, and they operate 16 projects in the USA and more overseas. In March, they shut down operations…

A Uber driver drives behind a plastic sheet separating himself and the passenger, as a preventative ... measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mexico City on April 6, 2020. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO / AFP) (Photo by PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Waymo, the world’s leading…

This week, WarnerMedia launched HBO Max, the long-awaited streaming platform that the company hopes can compete with the likes of Netflix and Disney+. But with HBO GO and HBO NOW already in existence, the addition of a third platform for HBO content has caused no small amount of confusion among…

Waymo's self-driving vans will be rolling again starting May 11. Waymo Waymo will restart road tests of its fleet of self-driving vans in suburban Phoenix next week, nearly two months after idling them because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but isn’t quite ready to resume robotaxi operations for local riders.  Initially,…