Self-driving Vehicles

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…

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…