Self-driving Vehicles

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) showed a notable improvement in growth across the business in its latest quarter. Besides the strength in the gaming segment, two other areas that stood out in Q2 2020 were the data center and automotive divisions, with both showing an in…

TOKYO Toyota and Suzuki will take small equity stakes in each other, the Japanese car makers said on Wednesday, as they seek to develop newer technologies and meet sweeping changes upending the global auto industry. The tie-up is the latest example of automa…

A former Google engineer spent months downloading Googles secret files on self-driving cars before he abruptly quit the company in 2016 to run Uber's autonomous vehicle program, federal prosecutors alleged on Tuesday. Interested in Google? Add Google as an …

Investors have been buzzing about the tremendous potential of self-driving vehicles for several years now. There are good reasons for the buzz: In theory, at least, vehicles that can safely move people and goods from place to place without human drivers could…

Anthony Levandowski (pictured above) stands accused of pilfering intellectual property from the tech giant and taking it with him to bitter rival Uber. The news: According to the New York Times, federal prosecutors have charged Levandowski with 33 counts of …

San Francisco (AFP) - A former Google engineer was hit with criminal charges Tuesday alleging he stole trade secrets from the technology giant's self-driving car project before he went to work at Uber. If convicted on the charges, Anthony Levandowski faces u…

Sebastian Thrun can’t be described easily. He’s a serial entrepreneur and educator, a computer scientist and inventor. He helped bring self-driving cars out of academia through X, the Google moonshot factory he founded. (That little project is now known as W…

Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car wunderkind at the center of one of the most high-profile lawsuits in Silicon Valley history, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury with 33 counts of theft of trade secrets. Anthony Levandowski is the key playe…

Instead of a human grabbing the wheel to help a self-driving shuttle in a jam, a university is looking to remote drivers.  Oregon-based teleoperations company Designated Driver is working with Texas A&M University's self-driving shuttles in downtown Brya…

Despite the best efforts of automakers like Tesla the public still isn’t all that trustworthy of self-driving cars. Nissan engineers came up with a fun little way to warm people up to the idea, and it took real balls to do it. Golf balls, that is. Nissan’s c…