Self-driving Vehicles

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…

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest technologies in the era of digital transformation, connecting everything to the Internet. It is the core technology behind smart homes, self-driving cars, smart utility meters, and smart cities. But there are nin…

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…