Self-driving Vehicles

Daimler Trucks has formed a global autonomous driving group, dubbed the Autonomous Technology Group (ATG), to help reach its goal of having autonomous trucks on US roads by 2020. Daimler According to head of strategy Peter Vaughan Schmidt, who will lead t…

With Uber set to release its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company Thursday afternoon, expect to see some updates on the company’s troubled self-driving car program. Uber suspended the program in March 2018 following a fatal accident involving o…

Our world is becoming more and more automated by the year; we all know that. But that doesnt mean everything in sight needs to be automated. Sure, Siri has replaced some of our mundane tasks, and a lot of our business tasks like data entry are now automated. …

As a non-millennial Old Person™️, I’ve come to regard the rise of dashboard touch screens in cars with increasing derision. (In my day, we had knobs and buttons!) But the trend is clear: 82% of vehicles sold this year came with touch screens, according to mar…

Sinéad OSullivan, entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Business School, discusses how space is much more important to modern business than most people realize. It plays a role in making food, pricing insurance, and steering self-driving cars. While moonshot pro…

"Tesla's updated Navigate on Autopilot software now lets some drivers choose whether the car can automatically change lanes without his or her input," writes Consumer Reports -- before complaining that the feature "doesn't work very well and could create safe…

Self-driving car startup Aurora Innovation said on Thursday it would buy Montana-based Blackmore, a company that develops lidar detection technology used in self-driving vehicles. Aurora is among dozens of automakers and large technology companies working on…

If youre skeptical of or put off by the idea of self-driving cars, then theres a good chance you wont be a fan of Fords intriguing research project designed to have robots get out of self-driving cars and deliver packages right to your door. Over the past fe…

That bipedal humanoid robot is named Digit. Say goodbye now, because youll never see one in person. Agility Robotics announced an ambitious partnership today with Ford to tackle the most labor-intensive portion of package delivery: the so-called last mile fr…

The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday started a two-week test transporting mail across three Southwestern states using self-driving trucks, a step forward in the effort to commercialize autonomous vehicle technology for hauling freight. San Diego-based startup …