Self-driving Vehicles

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…

DETROIT UPS said on Thursday it has bought a minority stake in self-driving company TuSimple, and the world's largest package delivery company has been testing the startup's autonomous trucks since May on a busy freight route in Arizona. The investment by UP…

August 16, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Between electric vehicles, self-driving technology and all-new segments emerging at nearly every auto show, the car industry will likely change more in the next five…

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…