Researchers at MIT have built a system that trains driverless cars in a simulation before they're allowed onto roads, learning from real-world scenarios.

It’s easier to describe what it’s not, rather than what it is.

Autonomous vehicles are coming faster than you think. But even today, it doesn't make sense to own your ride.

One day, a scientist in Craig Ferris’s lab was scanning the brains of very old rats when he found that one could see, hear, smell, and feel just like the other rats, but it was walking around with basically no brain—and likely had been since birth.

The Driven Tesla’s share price surge over the past few days, and the past year, has stunned the financial markets and the automotive industry. But some analysts believe that we’ve seen nothing yet,…

New federal guidelines make it clear that, while the government will provide oversight, it wants to encourage the development of autonomous vehicles.

Toyota Motor and Volkswagen each sell 10 million cars, give or take, every year. Tesla delivered about 367,500 in 2019. But when it comes to electronics technology, Elon Musk's scrappy company is far ahead of the industry giants. This is the takeaway from Nikkei Business Publications' teardown of the Model 3, the most affordable car in the U.S. automaker's all-electric lineup, starting at about $33,000.

In 2014 researchers in the MIT Media Lab made an experiment named Moral Machine. The idea was to make a game-like platform which would crowdsource people’s decisions on how self-driving cars should prioritize lives in different variants of this “trolley problem.” In the process, the information generated would provide insight into different cultures’ collective priorities.

National Transportation Safety Board chairman blasts Tesla and 'government regulators' for jeopardizing traffic safety over Tesla’s Autopilot feature.

​Self-driving cars could hit the road as soon as 2020, and automakers and regulators are preparing for immense changes.

Volvo wants to stop anyone from getting seriously injured or killed in its new cars by 2020, but advanced air bags and blind-spot warning systems can only go so far. It needs cars that can detect, predict, and avoid trouble, all on their own.

A good technology demonstration so wows you with what the product can do that you might forget to ask about what it can't. Case in point: Google's self-driving car. There is a surprisingly long list of the things the car can't do, like avoid potholes or operate in heavy rain or snow.

The next big thing in autonomous vehicles really is big. At a ceremony at the Hoover Dam last Wednesday, automotive manufacturer Daimler unveiled a self-driving truck – the first to be cleared to drive on US roads. For the freight industry, the Inspiration Truck holds the promise of a future with fewer accidents, lower fuel costs and well-rested drivers.

Google's own self-driving car is almost ready to be tested on public roads. In a blog post, project director Chris Urmson says that a few of the prototype vehicles will drive around Mountain View, California, where the company is based. Safety drivers will accompany the cars, which will be capped at 25mph. Unlike Google's ultimate vision for the vehicles, these cars will come with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal.

Trucks could haul cargo from Canada through the United States to Mexico and back navigate border crossings without the need for passports, visas or even a driver to steer them if a proposed driverless trucking corridor becomes a reality.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites you and challenge you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person.

In a new national poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans said they would support limits on humans driving cars in the near future, given the fact that robotic self-driving cars could be safer. Google says that self-driving cars will likely be commercialized in about 5 years and their widespread use could overtake human-driven cars soon after.

It’s no dramatic hyperbole to suggest that the automotive industry is destined to change more in the next 20 years than it has in the last 100. For a century, cars have consisted of a reasonably simple combination of four wheels, engine, steering system and pilot. Human and mechanics. But the introduction of GPS technology alongside infrared and radar scanning, high definition cameras and, most importantly, the processing tech to stitch it all together has resulted in a truly disruptive...

Efficiency gains per mile travelled could be immense, according to a new study. A paper published today in Nature Climate Change examines the effect to greenhouse gas emissions if another automotive niche converted to a more climate-friendly fleet: what might happen if, in 2030, US taxis were all self-driving, battery-powered EVs?

Google Self Driving Cars now being tested on the roads of Austin for the first time outside of California, since the project started in 2009.