Self-Driving Cars 170 Stories

Driverless cars, self-driving trucks, and other autonomous vehicles will alter our lives radically—if they ever take off. A look at the future on autopilot.

Cruise's self-driving car

Smart Cities

GM’s Cruise has unveiled a self-driving car with no steering wheel

by Charlotte Jee
2020-01-22T07:07:31-05:00

Anthony Levandowski with Uber self-driving car

Smart Cities

A self-driving car pioneer faces charges of stealing secrets from Google

by Martin Giles
2019-08-27T16:28:51-04:00

Smart Cities

Waymo is going to share its self-driving data—but it’s still not enough

by Martin Giles
2019-08-22T11:48:06-04:00

A driverless shuttle vehicle in New York City's Brooklyn Navy Yard

Smart Cities

New York City’s first self-driving shuttle service launches today

by Charlotte Jee
2019-08-07T08:14:13-04:00

An image showing the aftermath of a self-driving car accident, with an uber vehicle on its side

Tech Policy

When algorithms mess up, the nearest human gets the blame

A look at historical case studies shows us how we handle the liability of automated systems.

by Karen Hao
2019-05-28T10:00:06-04:00

A diagram showing an image of a panda, plus an image of some noise, equalling an image of a panda misidentified as a gibbon.

Artificial Intelligence

How we might protect ourselves from malicious AI

New research could make deep-learning models much harder to manipulate in harmful ways.

by Karen Hao
2019-05-19T07:00:49-04:00

A Tesla Model 3 in the Tesla Motors Store in Frankfurt

Smart Cities

Tesla’s Model 3 autopilot mode was activated seconds before a fatal crash

by Charlotte Jee
2019-05-17T07:26:45-04:00

Artificial Intelligence

Teaching a self-driving car the emergency stop is harder than it seems

by Karen Hao
2019-04-23T15:57:47-04:00

Tesla's full self-driving computer board

Artificial Intelligence

Tesla says its new self-driving chip will help make its cars autonomous

by Karen Hao
2019-04-23T10:29:18-04:00

Artificial Intelligence

The three challenges keeping cars from being fully autonomous

Technical, regulatory, and business obstacles are still in the way of safe, useful, and affordable self-driving vehicles.

by Karen Hao
2019-04-23T04:00:00-04:00

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