Self-driving Vehicles

Toyota is building a 175-acre smart city at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji, about 62 miles from Tokyo, the company announced earlier this month at CES, the biggest tech trade show of the year. The "city of the future" will function as a testing ground for te…

Most automakers offer some form of advanced driver assistance features, including automatic lane keeping on highways and radar cruise control. Tesla’s Autopilot, for all its faults, is one of the most advanced available. When enabled on highways, the car will handle most of the driving, but the driver still needs…

Uber Advanced Technologies Group will start mapping Washington, D.C., ahead of plans to begin testing its self-driving vehicles in the city this year. Initially, there will be three Uber vehicles mapping the area, a company spokesperson said. These vehicles, which will be manually driven and have two trained employees inside,…

Magna isn't fully severing ties with Lyft, in which it invested $200 million in 2018, but the self-driving partnership seems to have been impacting its bottom line. They'll keep working together on other autonomy-related software and hardware. Lyft has also c…

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Source: Android Central For several years now I've longed for the heads up displays (HUDs) and infotainment systems that I'd see in my rental cars or from my friends' rides that have built-in Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, and I've vowed that my next vehicle will have something like that.…

LAS VEGAS The Trump administration on Wednesday signaled strong support for self-driving vehicles as it released new guidance from federal agencies at the annual CES tech conference. U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao unveiled the administration's lat…

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, said its vehicles have now covered more than 20 million miles (32.2 million km) on public roads since its creation in 2009. "It took us a decade to drive the first 10 million miles but just over one yea…

Enlarge/ A Waymo self-driving car doing its thing in May 2019. 10 with 9 posters participating, including story author Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving company, has logged 20 million miles on public roads, the company announced in a Tuesday press statement. T…