Self-driving Vehicles

Riding high on a newly formed partnership with the United States Postal Service (USPS), self-driving truck startup TuSimple today announced that it’s secured an extension to its $95 million series D round led by Weibo creator Sina, which reached a total of $2…

Rachel Premack: So first of all, I guess, what do you think about self-driving trucks and what sort of impact do you think that they'll have on your career, if any?Dan McCreary: I'm 47. I think that — I don't know. My career's probably not going to see a whol…

Danger of ‘Pittsburgh Left’ shows that self-driving cars must learn local road rules

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin A Tesla vehicle is shown charging at a Tesla Supercharger site in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, July 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) photocredit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Tesla (NAS…

Voyage, the autonomous vehicle startup that spun out of Udacity, announced Thursday it has raised $31 million in a round led by Franklin Templeton. Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land-Rovers InMotion Ventures, and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in th…

Voyage, a self-driving car startup that spun-out of online education giant Udacity back in 2017, has raised $31 million in a series B round of funding led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, a…

Fords lineup casualties include the Fusion, once among the nations most popular family sedans, and the Focus, the compact sedan and hatchback that helped prove Detroit could compete against Japanese blue-chippers like Hondas Civic and Toyotas Corolla. Instea…

As we navigate into the 21st century, great innovations promised by Star Trek and Marty McFly are starting to become reality. Transporters and self-tying shoes aside, ask any daily commuter what they want, and they will say autonomous cars. Imagine heading i…

Nico Gentry has always loved cars. "I wanted so badly to get my permit and eventually my driver's license," the 25-year-old manufacturing engineer from Orlando, Florida, told me in a recent phone call. But a neurological disorder called nystagmus that affects…

In the business world, money might be the lingua franca to connect us all, but theres really no equivalent in academic and policy circles. Language barriers often mean different rates of concern for emerging issues, such as in techn…