Self-driving Vehicles

(Reuters) Intel on Monday released a video of its Mobileye autonomous car navigating the streets of Jerusalem for about 20 minutes with the help of 12 on-board cameras and, unusually, no other sensors. The development comes as chipmakers and machine-vision s…

Following Qualcomms promise last December of a major and unexpected automotive announcement at CES, the company today revealed several major vehicular initiatives: the new Snapdragon Drive Pilot autonomous driving platform, a Car-to-Cloud services platform, a…

Amazon Web Services is central to Amazons strategy. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters From making cars talk using Alexas voice to managing data from factories full of robots, Amazon.com Inc wants a big piece of the action in transportation, and this week at CES will…

Last Sunday, a Tesla Model S sedan left a freeway in Gardena, California, at a high speed, ran a red light and struck a Honda Civic, killing two people inside, police said.... Raj Rajkumar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon U…

Tesla Inc. beat Wall Street estimates for annual vehicle deliveries and met the low-end of its own target, sending shares to a record high in a vindication for Chief Executive Elon Musk after a few turbulent years. Boosted by demand for its mass-produced Mod…

There were lots of great reasons to hate on the original Segway: it was overhyped, it was expensive, it was easy to fall off, but most disappointing was that it required extensive standing. We were promised a future with minimal physical exertion, and Segway-…

An advertisement promotes Tesla's Autopilot technology at a showroom in Zurich, Switzerland, on March 28, 2018. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Three crashes involving Teslas that killed three people have increased scrutiny of the companys Autopilot driving system ju…

Engineers at Stanford University‘s Dynamic Design Lab have been able to make an autonomous DMC DeLorean drift. The technological efforts began almost five years ago in 2015, which kickstarted a project that resulted in the DeLorean being able to do donuts. S…

Climb into a self-driving car today and therell be a steering wheel right there where youd expect, and probably a back-up driver, too, ready to step in should something go awry during the journey. But General Motors (GM) autonomous-car unit Cruise wants to s…

Researchers are teaching a driverless DeLorean to steer with the agility and precision of a human driver to improve how autonomous cars handle hazardous conditions. As the DeLorean rolled to a stop and the cloud of tire smoke cleared, Jon Goh peeked out the …