Self-driving Vehicles

This time last year, we were under the impression that General Motors’ first attempt at an autonomous vehicle would come without pedals, a steering wheel, or any other controls traditionally associated with driving. Cruise Automation, the GM subsidiary taske…

Seeing as neither company has confirmed the negotiations, it's not entirely clear how many employees will be in Apple's payroll in the future. Drive.ai employed as many as 100 engineers as of February 2019, and one of The Information's sources said "dozens" o…

Apple is reportedly in the process of acquiring once-promising self-driving shuttle firm Drive.ai in a deal that will bolster the tech giant's own autonomous vehicle initiative with seasoned engineers and segment experts. Citing people familiar with the matte…

Image copyrightJoe and Josee ParsonsImage caption Joe and Josee Parsons have chosen to retire on the road, have travelled from Alaska to Argentina in their camper Overlanding - or self-reliant travel where the journey is more important than the destination…

One year ago, Lyft launched its self-driving ride service in Las Vegas. Today, the company announced its 30-vehicle fleet has made 55,000 trips. That makes it the largest commercial program of its kind in the US. Unsurprisingly, Lyft says it's thrilled. "So f…

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…