Self-driving Vehicles

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…

The automotive industry has embraced — and advertised — self-driving cars as a kind of panacea that will solve numerous problems that modern society is grappling with right now, from congestion to safety to productivity (you can work while riding!). Unfortun…

Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai teams up with Toyota to work on autonomous driving vehicles, will start a pilot in September on public roads in China (Bloomberg)

It looks like Alphabet(NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Waymo's self-driving-car development is gaining ground at an impressive pace this year. Concerns were raised last year about how well its autonomous vehicles would fare under real-world conditions, …

Despite decades of interest in self-driving cars, the first large-scale attempt at producing them yielded little more than a series of broken promises. Now, autonomous-vehicle companies are giving the concept a reboot, learning from past mistakes and charting…

Waymo, the self-driving car company under Alphabet, has been testing in the suburbs of Phoenix for several years now. And while the sunny metropolis might seem like the ideal and easiest location to test autonomous vehicle technology, there are times when the…