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Where to find self-driving cars on the road right now Aptiv Las Vegas, Boston, Pittsburgh, Singapore The name “Aptiv” might not ring a bell, but if you visit Las Vegas, you could ride in one of their autonomous vehicles after hailing a Lyft. They first began offering rides in their cars during...

Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance will tie up with Alphabet Inc'sGoogle to develop autonomous taxis and other services using self-driving vehicles, the Nikkei reported on Tuesday...

Full: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/uber-is-exploring-autonomous-bikes-and-scooters/amp/ Uber is looking to integrate autonomous technology into its bike and scooter-share programs. Details are scarce, but according to 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson, who said Uber announced this at a DIY...

Harvard Law School Professor Susan Crawford recently taught a course that included an introduction to the issues surrounding driverless vehicles. From craziness to preparing for a coming reality Like many people, when Harvard lecturer in public Mark Fagan first heard the buzz around...

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Self-driving car drove me from California to New York, claims ex-Uber engineer Tue 18 Dec 2018 08.00 EST Anthony Levandowski, the controversial engineer at the heart of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, claims to have built an automated car that drove from San Francisco to New York without any...

The Deadly Recklessness of the Self-Driving Car Industry https://gizmodo.com/the-deadly-recklessness-of-the-self-driving-car-industr-1831027948 Tesla’s team knows that some drivers are going to use Autopilot as an actual self-driving mode or otherwise end up relying fully on the system. And...

Dec. 5, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — Eight months after one of Uber’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, the ride-hailing company is close to putting its autonomous vehicles back on the road in a drastically reduced version of earlier efforts. Uber received an important vote of...

If enacted, the bill would loosen up many of the federal regulations pertaining to self-driving vehicles. AV manufacturers like Tesla and General Motors would be able to develop and market these vehicles without specific regulatory action. At the same time, the bill would collect crash...

General Motors Co., Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo, Ford Motor Co. and others have spent the past several years and billions of dollars developing the autonomous-driving technology expected to shape the future of the automotive industry. But that technology is losing its competitive edge, because in a...

General Motors will lay off 14,700 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure. The company said this is part of a plan that restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles...

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/driverless-cars-oxbotica-driven-consortium-a3999911.html The DRIVEN consortium - which encompasses autonomous vehicle software provider Oxbotica, insurance provider AXA XL and security company Nominent - has announced it will begin trials in the London borough...

Former GM vice chairman: 'It is absolutely inevitable — human-driven vehicles are on their way out' Bob Lutz, the former vice chairman of product development for General Motors, wrote a missive in "Automotive News" that society is "approaching the end of the automotive era." Lutz predicts that...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/kroger-to-soon-begin-driverless-grocery-delivery.html Kroger to bring driverless cars to grocery delivery Kroger is partnering with autonomous car company Nuro to introduce driverless cars to its grocery delivery. Kroger has made a number of investments...

Uber reportedly thinks its self-driving car killed someone because it ‘decided’ not to swerve The car’s sensors saw her, but may have flagged the detection as a ‘false positive’ By Sean O'Kane@sokane1 May 7, 2018, 2:41pm EDT SHARE Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Uber has discovered the...

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http://nationalpost.com/news/world/crash-marks-1st-death-involving-fully-autonomous-vehicle Click the above link for a clip of the fatal AV accident. In the first part, you will see that the woman DIDN'T just jump out in the road. She was on it long enough for the car sense her presence and...

So, I was sitting back watching the news this morning and Uber and Lyft was repored on with Lyft testing their autonomous vehicles in concord and Uber getting their permits to operate their cars in sf. ( NO NEW NEWS RIGHT?) Well, I was remembering back last year when Uber was found negligent for...