Self-driving Vehicles

Driverless cars are finally coming to New York. Sort of. Optimus Ride, a self-driving tech company, is launching a fleet of six cars at Brooklyn's Navy Yard on Wednesday in a push to bring autonomous vehicles to the Empire State. It's unclear though how "sel…

The self-driving shuttles will transport passengers from the NYC Ferry stop at Dock 72 to Yards' Cumberland Gate at Flushing Avenue. The shuttles will run from 7am to 10:30pm, and for now, they'll have a safety driver and software engineer onboard. According …

Over the weekend, Musk hinted that it could make the difference. During Tesla's Autonomy Day earlier this year, Musk and other Tesla executives gave presentations about what the company is doing to try to achieve full self-driving capability by the end of nex…

TOKYO Suzuki on Monday reported a 46.2% fall in first-quarter operating profit, hurt by lower output at home as it improves its inspection systems, and falling demand in India, its biggest market. Japan's fourth-largest automaker posted an operating profit o…

As if you didnt have enough phone specs to consider when choosing a new phone, here comes another one: Smartphone cameras are now being augmented with whats called a time-of-flight or TOF sensor, as well as the standard wide-angle and telephoto lenses you mig…

Business Insider Intelligence Around the globe, a combination of economic and regulatory forces coupled with the rise of competitive tech challengers is putting significant pressure on legacy automakers to innovate at a rapid rate. Auto sales are on a de…

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the Lightyear One, an all-electric luxury car that, according to its creators, can drive almost 500 miles on a single charge. Compare that to the average electric car that gets around 190 miles, and e…

If self-driving cars become mainstream, it’s likely that many of them will be electric. But if no one is driving, will anyone be around to plug them in? Electrify America — the entity created to spend Volkswagen diesel emissions fines on zero-emission vehicle…

Their first pilot demonstration will take place in San Francisco. The autonomous charging station will allow self-driving EV fleets to connect to Electrify America's 150kW DC fast chargers without human intervention. The cars will park themselves inside a sta…

Before I got a license and a car, getting to and from high school was an ordeal. The hour-long bus ride was awful, as one would expect when sixty adolescents are crammed together with minimal supervision. Avoiding the realities going on around me was a consta…