Self-driving Vehicles

Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it will add Austin, Texas, to the short list of cities where it plans to launch a commercial transportation service using automated vehicles in 2021. The U.S. automaker previously said it would begin transporting people and go…

If an XC40 EV got an X-ray, it'd look something like this. Volvo Volvo promised a battery-electric vehicle in 2019, and gosh darn it, it's going to deliver. Next month, Volvo will pen a new chapter in the company's history as it introduces its first electri…

There's hardly a consensus on how the world feels about self-driving cars. Audi While autonomous cars and self-driving technology aren't ready to roll in the near future, such technology is bound to become widespread in the decades to come. Yet despite in…

(Reuters) — Hyundai Motor Group will invest $1.6 billion in a joint venture to develop self-driving vehicle technologies with Aptiv, the biggest overseas investment by the South Korean carmaker to catch up to rivals in the autonomous car market. Global carma…

Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv are creating a 50:50 autonomous driving joint venture valued at $4 billion. In an announcement, Hyundai said the venture plans to begin testing fully driverless vehicle systems in 2020 and to "have a production-ready autonomous d…

Would you rather take an Uber ride home alone late at night or have a self-driving taxi service come pick you up with no one at the front wheel? The prospect of riding in a car with only a stranger driving can feel as unsafe as some people feel about…

Built Robotics, a company aiming to make construction equipment autonomous, is announcing a $33M Series B round this morning. With the construction industry facing a global labor shortage, Built’s aim is to allow one equipment operator to oversee a fleet of …

If you are in or around the Brooklyn Navy Yard and want to get to the East River Ferry, you can have a self driving car take you there. I did that yesterday: It’s sort of like a van. There are six passenger seats in the vehicle rand I saw…

Uber is taking its self-driving cars to Dallas, Texas, though at the start the company wont be testing them in autonomous mode. Instead, beginning in early November, its Volvo SUVs will be operated manually during outings to collect data to help it build the…

Uber uses a test track with dummies to train its human drivers in how to control self-driving cars. Uber Uber's self-driving car operations are growing. The company said Tuesday that the newest city where it'll be testing its autonomous vehicles is Dallas. …