Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo wants you to know its autonomous driver recognizes children and cyclists

Bradley Tusk’s story is well-known by now. A political operative who managed Michael Bloomberg’s successful third mayoral campaign, Tusk soon turned a bonus from his powerful boss into an opportunity that most people can only dream about. He launched his own …

Before there were Elon Musk and Tesla, there were Henry Ford and the Model T. And between Tesla's state-of-the-art cars and the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's difficult to remember how far we've come since the first-ever automobiles built in Europe in th…

Ten years ago, paper maps were rarely current or accurate down to the meter, but over the next decade, 5G networks will enable digital maps to achieve centimeter-level accuracy, and update in real time. To that end, leading South Korean carrier SK Telecom tod…

Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before this happens, we should ask ourselves: Will they whisk us quickly through cities or make traffic worse? A car is a car, whether self-driving or people driventaking up a great deal more space…

Elon Musk really went for it this week at Tesla's Autonomy Day, ripping into widely used self-driving technology like laser sensors and (over)promising to put 1 million self-driving Tesla taxis on the streets next year. These bold claims certainly stirred up …

In early March, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto signed an executive order mandating that firms testing self-driving vehicles submit materials outlining their testing methods every six months to the city’s newly-formed Department of Mobility and Infrastructure…

Want to hide from AI-powered surveillance systems? Researchers at KU Leuven generated an image which you can print and hold around your hip to make yourself invisible to a popular object detection algorithm. The technique so far only works if the printout is…

According to marketing firm ABI, as many as 8 million driverless cars will be added to the road in 2025. Meanwhile, Research and Markets is predicting that in the U.S. alone, there will be some 20 million autonomous cars in operation by 2030. But how do cons…

2019 has been rocky for electric automaker Tesla: It announced it would start rolling out Model 3 sedans priced at $35,000, then made it more difficult to order them. It said it would close all of its showrooms, then said it would keep some openand raise pric…