Self-driving Vehicles

Towering behemoths are prowling the docks of Auckland, New Zealand, in a neverending shuffle of shipping containers, stacking and unstacking them like so many out-sized LEGO bricks. And they’re doing it all without human guidance. Its hard to overstate the i…

The strike Wednesday by Uber and Lyft drivers should serve as a warning to the companies and particularly to their investors. That's not because the labor action likely harmed Uber or Lyft's business that day in any significant way. Instead, the strike is …

It was only a matter of time of course. Theres now a porn video of two people having sex in a Tesla while it was driving on Autopilot. In the video, a man driving a Tesla picks up adult actress Taylor Jackson for a Tinder date but about 45 seconds…

Elon Musk, the PT Barnum of tech, is currently getting a ration of ridicule from some of the worlds foremost leading AI experts over his ridiculous claim that Tesla will field a million fully autonomous cars by 2020. If there are a million Tesla robo-taxis f…

In April, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had harsh words for the sensor technology that most self-driving cars companies rely on, but on Wednesday executives at Alphabet's Waymo,who pioneered that tech defended their approach. Musk's attack was centered on the honeyc…

Lyft users in Phoenix will soon have the option of getting a ride from a Waymo self-driving car. Waymo Waymo has been running its Waymo One self-driving car taxi service in the Phoenix metro area for a while now, and for the most part, it's been pretty succ…

Alphabet self-driving subsidiary Waymo today pulled back the curtains on its ongoing partnership with Lyft, which the two firms announced in 2017. In the coming months, Waymo plans to deploy 10 of its driverless vehicles on Lyft’s ride-hailing platform in the…

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General Motors' majority-owned Cruise self-driving division on Tuesday said T. Rowe Price and a group of existing investors put down $1.15 billion in new equity, valuing the unit at $19 billion. Shares of the No.1 U.S. automaker rose as much as 2.1 percent t…

Self-driving vehicles in Apple's "Project Titan" could reduce the amount of processing required to recognize objects and to understand the layout of the road ahead, using a "confidence" algorithm that can allow a car's computer to get just enough data from se…