Self-driving Vehicles

Next time you hear about the wonderful future of self-driving cars, picture this: Venezuelans, living in crisis conditions after their economy collapsed, sitting at laptops and outlining pictures of trees and bikes so that the robotic vehicles dont crash. Th…

Waymo, the self-driving spinoff of Alphabet, is the latest firm to offer up some of the information gleaned from its vehicles to the wider research community. The news: Waymo says it will share some of the data its gathered from its vehicles for free so othe…

Autonomous vehicles are changing so fast, its hard to keep up. Weve assembled some of the best materials to get you up to speed, and put you on track. You can also check out our field guide to autonomous vehicles (Quartz member exclusive) for a deep dive abou…

Scotty Labs CEO Tobenna Arodiogbu announced the deal on Medium yesterday. He said the three-year-old startup has been working to "transform the logistics industry for the better" and has former NASA, Google, Apple and Cruise Automation staff in its ranks. It'…

The Waymo team explained this as an opportunity to improve the industry as a whole. It hoped he data would improve not just other self-driving vehicles, but also general concepts like perception, behavior prediction and scene understanding. Those could help w…

San Francisco-based food delivery company DoorDash has acquired autonomous driving startup Scotty Labs for an undisclosed amount. The news comes just weeks after the on-demand food delivery firm purchased rival Caviar for $410 million USD in cash and DoorDash…

If you’re like me, and I’m just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you’re not driving. So what are we supposed to do in self-driving vehicles? Researchers are finally looking into this question wi…

Waymo is taking some of its autonomous vehicles to Florida just in time for hurricane season to begin testing in heavy rain. The move to Florida will focus on testing how its myriad of sensors hold up during the region’s rainy season as well as to collect da…

Over the past year the automotive industry has carefully walked back the expectations surrounding autonomous cars. Yet pretty much any change in rhetoric constitutes retracted goals. With numerous companies predicting self-driving fleets of commercial vehicl…

We were promised self-driving cars, but what we got were delays. In 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised drivers a car that could drive hands-free from New York to Los Angeles within a year. That same year, Carlos Ghosn, the former executive leading Renault, Ni…