Self-driving Vehicles

Trusting your automated car depends a lot on when it lets you know what it’s going to do, according to a new study. “What we found is that explanations promote trust with humans but only if they are given before the car takes actions,” says Lionel Robert, as…

Apple appeared to be pulling back from the autonomous car business when it dismissed some 200 employees from its Project Titan initiative in January 2019. But it would appear that its shifting gears in a big way with news on Tuesday that it has acquired start…

The latest self-driving firm to be consolidated is Drive.ai. The startup has been working on AI tech for autonomous vehicles for a few years, but found itself low on cash in an increasingly competitive market. Now, just as the San Francisco Chronicle reports …

Argo AI will invest $15 million over five years to create a center for autonomous vehicle research at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the latest efforts by the Ford-backed company to accelerate the development of self-driving cars. The center, Carnegie Me…

Alphabet's self-driving vehicle unit Waymo has entered into a partnership with global automaker Renault and Nissan to jointly explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan, each auto firm's respective home market, according to The Wall Street Journ…

Roundup If you wanna know what's been happening in AI this week beyond what we've already covered, here's a quick roundup... Waymo Open Dataset: Self-driving-car dreamer Waymo is planning to release a data set collected from sensors on its autonomous vehicle…

12 with 11 posters participating Does the name "Autopilot" cause people to overestimate the abilities of Tesla's driver-assistance technology? It's a question that comes up in the Ars comments almost every time we write about Autopilot. Critics warn that so…

Yet another company partners with Googles self-driving car division, AKA Alphabets self-driving car division, AKA Waymo; everyone seems to hate Trumps new EPA rules; and supersonic jets. All that and more in the Morning Shift for June 20, 2019. 1st Gear: I G…

Waymo has locked in an exclusive partnership with Renault and Nissan to research how commercial autonomous vehicles might work for passengers and packages in France and Japan. This exclusive partnership has a deadline the public announcement says it will las…

Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open source some of the information it has captured while developing and testing self-driving cars. The aim, t…