Self-driving Vehicles

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…

Parking is a frustrating aspect of owning a carfrustrating enough, in fact, that an entire taxi and ride-hail industry has cropped up to get you places on four wheels, while skipping the whole parking thing. Its also risky. Parking-related crashes happen at l…

The first time self-driving cars were introduced to the world, it was through science fiction films and television of yesteryear. For self-driving systems, infrastructure and industry efficiency are everything. Today, however, theyre a reality, and theyve ta…

MacManus was responsible for the engineering of the interior of Tesla vehicles and has also worked for other big companies in the automotive industry like Aston Martin, Jaguar and Bentley & Land Rover. He is now a Senior Director at Apple. The move was hi…

Its not often you find some genuine innovation coming from a company whose products are targeted at kids. Toymakers tend to stick to minor feature upgrades or simple cosmetic improvements to make existing products feel new again. When it was announced Toy Fai…

Peloton Technology is moving autonomous vehicles along faster than most robo-taxis. At the Automated Vehicles Symposium in Orlando this week, Peloton unveiled its highly autonomous driving system for trucks that plural "trucks" is key. This isn't one truck g…

China is BMW’s largest market, and the German automaker knows in order to capture the country’s demanding consumers, its future models must support robust autonomous driving capability. But to build it itself in China is hardly possible. The success of auton…

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Bill Gates made his career and his billions bringing personal computer software to bear in the workplace. Forty-four years after cofounding Microsoft, he says the biggest changes brought by business software are yet to come—courtesy of artificial intelligence…