Self-driving Vehicles

Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora and former CTO of Google's self-driving car team, also emphasized the ... importance of ethics in designing self-driving cars. Drew Angerer/Getty Image In a wide-ranging conversation about AI and self-driving cars at the Forb…

Being the first to release an autonomous/autopilot driving software, Tesla started a self-driving vehicle trend that might shape the future of transportation. While the worldwide adoption of self-driving cars seems to be closer than ever, we might have self-f…

Volkswagen Autonomy's end goal is to bring autonomous driving capabilities to VW's cars, but former Apple engineer Alex Hitzinger calls it "the world's best-funded start-up." Hitzinger, Volkswagen Group's senior vice president for autonomous driving, will be …

Climate change has received more attention as its current and future effects become increasingly dire. Millennial luxury-car buyers have taken notice, according to Christophe Georges, the CEO of Bentley Motors Inc., Bentley's Americas division. The biggest d…

TOKYO Makers of airless tires such as Japan's Bridgestone Corp. hope driverless cars will herald a breakthrough for their niche technology, which is more than a decade old but underperforms standard tires in every way except resistance to puncture. Autonomou…

Tesla shares are up almost a fifth in after-hours trading after the 'leccy car maker posted a surprising profit for the third quarter. Financial analysts were increasingly losing patience with the company, which lost over $1bn in the first half of the year a…

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About 40 percent of adult drivers in the United States are leaning towards buying self-driving cars in the future as they look to snack, chat on their phone or catch up on email while the car drives itself, a survey by Adobe Analytics showed. The survey of 1…

A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. How did this unlikely scenario come around, you're no doubt asking? Well, for a surprisingly interesting reason, actually.  Researchers from the University of Richmond in Virgini…

SHANGHAI, CHINA - 2019/09/20: Chinese multinational technology company Huawei logo seen in Shanghai. ... Huawei unveiled its flagship Mate 30 Series in Munich, Germany on 19th September 2019. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) …