Self-driving Vehicles

A new simulation shows what it would take for future hackers to wreak widespread havoc by randomly stranding self-driving cars in a major city, researchers report. Imagine it’s the year 2026, at rush hour, and your self-driving car abruptly shuts down right …

Consumers are concerned about self-driving cars. That’s according to J.D. Power’s inaugural 2019 Mobility Confidence Index Study published today in collaboration with SurveyMonkey, which found that a majority of the 5,749 respondents harbor doubts about the t…

Soon you’ll be able to catch up on BoJack Horseman and have Jeffree Star show you the best Dollar Tree makeup while sitting in your Tesla. And we’re not just talking about watching on your phone: Netflix and YouTube streaming are both coming to Tesla vehicles…

Tesla already allows you to turn your car into a gaming console. Nicholas Miotke/Roadshow As if turning your car into a mobile gaming console wasn't enough, Tesla will soon allow owners to stream Netflix and YouTube videos right on their vehicles' multimedi…

Watching TV while you drive is a terrible idea, but can your fully stopped car double as a self-contained entertainment center? That's what Elon Musk and Tesla are betting on. Netflix streaming and YouTube streaming are both coming to Tesla vehicles "soon," …

There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to them, the more difficult they seem. In 1956, scientists John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky proposed that a 2-month, 10-man study of artificia…

Google's Waymo is using DeepMind's StarCraft II skills to retrain its neural networks. Waymo Finding new ways to train neural networks is becoming more important all the time, especially as the race to develop autonomous cars heats up. This has led develope…

GM's autonomous vehicle (AV) unit Cruise has delayed the launch of a robotaxi service after initially aiming to deploy one at a large scale sometime this year. The company now says that it will launch at an unspecified future date and will do so in San Franci…

Electric car giant Tesla had its stock plunge over 10 percent in after-hours trading after posting a $408 million loss in Q2 2019despite shipping record numbers of cars, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The company produced about 87,000 cars in the quarter and sh…

General Motors is delaying the launch of its self-driving cars citing the challenge to safely remove people from behind the wheel. About 18 months ago, the automaker had promised that its self-driving unit, GM Cruise, would launch a fleet of autonomous vehic…