Uber will now let you book a Waymo self-driving car through its app
Uber and Waymo, who have historically been competitors, are putting history aside and looking toward a new future with their latest announcement. In a press …
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Bloomberg: Apple plans to launch a fully autonomous car as soon as 2025
The Apple Car rumors returned in early 2021, and we’ve had a steady influx of unconfirmed news about Apple’s most ambitious project to date since …
Riders want autonomous cars that drive like humans, not machines
Autonomous cars may very well be our future, but we’re not there yet. Not only is the technology lacking, but many would-be passengers just don’t …
Millennials are the demographic most open to self-driving cars, but not by much
Ford chief executive Jim Hackett made news a few days ago when he seemed to pour a bit of cold water on the carmaker’s autonomous …
Most Americans are still afraid of self-driving cars, new study reveals
When it comes to the safety of self-driving cars, reports of traffic accidents, like the one in early 2018 involving an Uber self-driving car that …
Waymo’s self-driving taxi service is now a reality
We always expected Google to turn its self-driving car technology developed under Waymo into a self-driving taxi service of sorts, and Google finally delivered the …
Jaguar Land Rover wants to stick googly eyes on self-driving cars so you’ll trust them
It might not have seemed possible after their incredibly slow start, but self-driving cars are looking more and more like the future of personal transportation. …
Self-driving cars are delivering groceries in Arizona right now
That future we’ve been hearing so much about is actually starting to take shape — at least if you live in Scottsdale, Arizona. A partnership …
Investors are tired of Uber losing money on self-driving cars
Uber’s self-driving car has been touted as the thing that’s going to eventually take the ride-sharing company out of the red and into the cheap, …
Will self-driving cars change how car insurance works?
Spurred on by Tesla and Google, most auto manufacturers today are actively researching and developing advanced self-driving car technologies. And though we’re not quite at …
FBI charges former Apple engineer with stealing trade secrets to smuggle to China
In the cut-throat world of self-driving cars, it seems that no company server is safe from former employees who are looking to cut and run …
Volvo is making a true ‘Autopilot’ that’ll let you eat, sleep, or watch movies – coming in 3 years
Self-driving cars have gone from DARPA project to roaming our streets much faster than anyone predicted, but if you bring the topic up with a …
Uber is going to blame a distracted human driver for its fatal self-driving accident. It shouldn’t.
Earlier today, Gizmodo obtained and published documents from the Tempe, Arizona police department that appear to Uber’s safety driver was streaming Hulu at the time when an …
If Apple made a car, this is how it would have done it
Rumors a few years back kept telling us that Apple is making its own car, a vehicle supposed to do to the auto industry what …
Report: Self-driving Uber detected pedestrian before fatal collision, but chose to ignore her
In the wake of a self-driving Uber fatally colliding with a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona in March, other autonomous vehicle companies were quick to point …
Completely driverless cars will soon be on California streets if Waymo has its way
Waymo, the self-driving car company that was spun off from Google, has applied for a permit to test completely driverless vehicles on public roads in …
Tesla says the fatal Model X crash is the worst it’s ever seen
The National Transportation Safety Board is currently investigating a fatal accident that occured last Friday, when a Tesla Model X crashed into a highway divider, …
After crashing into a firetruck, self-driving cars just hit another roadblock: The Senate
Self-driving cars are only getting more and more common. Just today, General Motors announced that it would invest $100 Million to start producing a consumer …
How self-driving vehicles are going to change the way we own cars
Depending on which particular tech luminary you listen to, self-driving cars are somewhere between one and ten years away from reality. But one thing everyone …
Toyota is creating a new self-driving company to make research a reality
As car companies come to terms with the reality of a world where they have to compete with Google and Uber, not just each other, …
Ford is testing autonomous pizza delivery in Miami
Ford and Dominos are jumping on the autonomously-piloted bandwagon with a new pilot project, which should eventually see a fleet of robotic cars roaming the …
NVIDIA doesn’t make smart cars, but it does have advanced AI-infused hardware for them
NVIDIA doesn’t make self-driving cars of its own, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be an important player in the smart car business. That’s because …
Apple might not be making a self-driving car, but it sure is interested in autonomous tech
As one of the most secretive tech companies out there, Apple rarely reveals any details regarding hardware or software products that may be in development. …
Self-driving bus launches in Las Vegas, gets into accident two hours later
The autonomous vehicles of the future are already (sorta) here, and it won’t be long before you start seeing them on a street near you. …
Uber constructed a life-sized fake city so its self-driving cars maybe won’t kill us all
It’s no secret that Uber’s ultimate end goal is to convert its fleet of human-driven on-demand chauffeurs to a fleet of AI-driven driverless taxis, but …
There’s about to be a lot more unproven self-driving cars on American roads
A bill just breezed through the US House of Representatives that aims to give automakers an incredible amount of freedom in testing its self-driving cars …
Driverless cars are getting really confused by kangaroos
We all assume that at some point in the not-so-distant future, cars will be able to takes us from place to place with a bare …
