Self-driving Vehicles

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Have you heard the good news? Self-driving cars will solve all our problems. If you believe the headlines, autonomous vehicles will reduce traffic congestion, improve commutes, save lives, and even solve the loneliness epidemic. Proponents of the technology o…

The startup thinks it's ready to take the human out of the car. AutoX Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo may have a new challenger that hails from China. AutoX, a startup with funding from Alibaba, has applied for a California permit to test autonomous cars in the state…

We are very much interested in how human-driven vehicles and robots can coexist, says Daniela Rus, director of the MIT lab and a coauthor of the paper. Its a grand challenge for the field of autonomy, and a question thats applicable not just for robots on roa…

Six months ago, Ford laid out an ambitious plan to expand its GoRide Health transportation service with an aim at delivering thousands of rides every day to hospitals, doctor offices and other health care facilities by the end of the year. In a few weeks, the…

The insurance industry is in the midst of a massive overhaul. Startups like Lemonade, which uses machine learning to determine the risk profile of potential customers and assign them a corresponding monthly premium, are challenging the human-centric model of…

In a recent study by a team of researchers at MIT, self driving cars are being programmed to identify the social personalities of other drivers in an effort to predict their future actions and drive safer on roads. It’s already been made evident that autonom…

Self-driving cars arent as far into the future that many may think. In fact, many of todays cars are self-driving in one way or another. Features such as brake assist and adaptive cruise control are considered advanced driver assistance systems, but the gener…

When you think of artificial intelligence and cars, the first thing that likely comes to mind is ambitious self-driving vehicle projects of tech giants like Google, Uber, and probably Apple. Most of these companies are leveraging AI to create cars that can un…

Last December, the Senates first bit of legislation that would have governed self-driving cars, a bill called AV START, sputtered and died after an analogous bill passed the House. The stakes are still high: More than 36,000 people died on American roads last…