Self-driving Vehicles

UPS is looking to all kinds of new-age vehicle technologies to step up its delivery game, with electric vans, e-bikes and drones that carry smaller packages all part of the mix. It is now expressing a keen interest in autonomous heavy haulers, revealing it ha…

Automakers have been talking up the potential of self-driving cars for years, and dozens of companies are trying to bring them to market. Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) is laser-focused on winning the race to bring an autonomous vehicle to market but is pursuing an entir…

Package delivery giant UPS has invested in TuSimple, a self-driving startup based in San Diego, California, to develop autonomous trucks, the mega-corp announced on Thursday. The two companies have been testing vehicles by shuttling truckloads of goods on a …

Chinas vision of profiting from the driverless economy is being clouded by intellectual property debates, as two Chinese suppliers of a key self-driving technology are accused of stealing IP from a Silicon Valley company. Velodyne, the worlds largest produce…

According to UPS, the trucks have been roaming a 100-mile stretch between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona since May. The fleet is designed as "level four autonomous trucking," which means all operations are automated; a driver and engineer are only on-board as a …

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin People today love their cars, but will the love endure in an era of self-driving driverless cars, it's a big question worth asking.  Photocredit: Getty Getty It…

If a hacker targeting connected cars in Manhattan could randomly stall 20% of them during rush hour, total gridlock would ensue. This isn't just bad traffic where you are an hour late. It becomes impossible to get from point A to point B, says Georgia Institu…

Apple is continuing to grow its fleet self-driving car test drivers in California. According to new data from the California DMV, Apple now has a total of 69 self-driving cars and 143 certified drivers on the road. Compared to data from March, Apple has not …

Say goodbye to these niche models. BMW Perhaps the BMW 3 Series and 6 Series Gran Turismo models took niches just a smidge too far. For anyone still yearning for one of the quirky sedan/coupe/hatchback mashups, time is running short. BMW noted in its full-…

With frequent delays and long security lines, the average airport may not seem like a model of efficiency. But that was where Waymo looked for a model when it started setting up an autonomous-vehicle testing hub in Chandler, Arizona, according to Automotive N…