Self-driving Vehicles

Uber’s has confirmed it will spin out its self-driving car business after the unit closed $1 billion in funding from Toyota, auto-parts maker Denso and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. The development has been speculated for some time — as far back as October — and i…

(Reuters) — Apple has held talks with at least four companies as possible suppliers for next-generation lidar sensors in self-driving cars, evaluating the companies technology while also still working on its own lidar unit, three people familiar with the disc…

A fresh report has renewed rumors about Apples super-secretive autonomous car unit known as Project Titan. Citing three sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reported Wednesday that the companys self-driving car unit is exploring options for a revolution…

Aptiv, the U.S. auto supplier and self-driving software company, is opening an autonomous mobility center in Shanghai to focus on the development and eventual deployment of its technology on public roads. The expansion marks the fifth market where Aptiv has …

If you were hoping to hail a self-driving car from Waymo, you better live in the Phoenix area and be prepared to wait even after downloading the app. The Waymo app is now available on the Google Play app store for the first time, but it's not like Uber or…

Volkswagen unveiled a new electric car concept at the Shanghai Auto Show this week. The quixotically named ID Roomzz is an all-electric SUV with Level 4 autonomous capabilities that is destined for the Chinese market by 2021, the German automaker announced. T…

Think Tesla's done messing with its car prices? Think again.  Days after the company's announcement of Model 3 lineup and price changes, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the "price of the Tesla Full Self-Driving option will increase substantially ove…

Ford CEO Jim Hackett -- formerly head of the company's autonomous vehicle division -- publicly announced that the company had "overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles" and that the vehicles, when they did arrive, their "applications will be narrow, w…

Uber spent $457 million last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars (known as eVTOLs) and other “technology programs” and will continue to invest heavily in the futuristic tech even though it expects to rely on human drivers for …

Tesla is preparing to roll out a more capable and robust version of its automated parking feature known as Enhanced Summon next week, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Saturday. The tweet comes just days after the company released a new version of Navigate on Autopilot,…