Self-driving 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…

General Motors Co's self-driving unit, Cruise, said on Wednesday it was delaying the commercial deployment of cars past its target of 2019 as more testing of the vehicles was required. Cruise Chief Executive Officer Dan Ammann said the company would expand t…

GM Cruise won't meet its goal of commercial self-driving taxis this year

Cruise is postponing an ambitious target to launch a commercial robotaxi service before the end of the year, the company’s CEO Dan Ammann said Wednesday in a lengthy blog post that revealed new details about its plan to eventually deploy in San Francisco. Cr…