Self-driving Vehicles

The National Transportation Safety Board weighs in Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The driver of a Tesla Model S who crashed into a fire truck on a California freeway last year was not paying attention to the road thanks to overreliance on Autopilot…

The shift toward electric vehicles is often positioned as a slow crawl, with projections typically estimating that battery-powered cars wont outsell conventional combustion engines until 2025 or 2030 at the earliest. But analysts who currently consider EVs a…

The Porsche Taycan is a missile aimed straight at Tesla. The German electric sedan packs everything needed to give the Model S its first real fight. The Porsche is just as fast, is sleeker thanks to a lower drag coefficient, and packs several technical goodie…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Self-driving cars have yet to gain the confidence of the American consumer, study finds. Getty To hear some pundits tell it, well all be carted around in self-driving el…

30 different models of L4 autonomous vehicles Didi Chuxing is launching a self-driving car pilot in Shanghai, the Chinese ride-hailing giant announced. The local government in Shanghai recently awarded Didi a permit to test its autonomous vehicles on publi…

Waymo, Cruise, and others call on the NHTSA to take action on human controls Image: GM The federal government should rewrite the safety rules for automobile manufacturing so self-driving carmakers can deploy vehicles without traditional controls like steeri…

Didi Chuxing will begin picking up ride-hailing passengers with self-driving cars in Shanghai in just a few months, according to company CTO Zhang Bo (via Reuters). The plan is to roll out autonomous pick-ups in Shanghai first, starting in one district of the…

Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing plans to start a self-driving taxi service in Shanghai within a few months, hopes to roll out in three Chinese cities by 2020 (Josh Horwitz/Reuters)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing plans to start using self-driving vehicles to pick up passengers in a district of Shanghai city in a pilot scheme, a senior executive said, taking a further step toward commercializing self-driving …

Zenuity, a self-driving start-up backed by Volvo Cars and Veoneer (NYSE:VNE), said that it's teaming up with renowned European physics research organization CERN to help its cars learn and make decisions more quickly.  Why is this important? Let's put it thi…