Tesla is close to achieving fully autonomous vehicles, CEO Elon Musk said during a visit to Paris on Friday, adding autonomy was the “main driver” of the brand’s market value. The company’s shares rose by as much as 3% to their highest level in more than eight months. The world’s most valuable automaker, […]
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When I lived in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco’s foggy beachside neighborhood, I grew accustomed to seeing camera and sensor-fitted vehicles roaming through the surfer and pastel home lined streets. The quiet neighborhood made an obvious testing ground for Google-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise. At the time, company staff […]
Autonomous vehicles are stupid — so an engineer has figured out a way to make streets smarter.Arif Qazi / Insider Someday, maybe, you’ll be driving like usual, and you’ll stop at a red light, as usual. You’ll take the opportunity to sneak a peek at the car next to you, […]
Olivier Toupet, principal software engineer at Zoox, started his career as an aerospace engineer.Olivier Toupet Olivier Toupet started his career working on autonomous helicopters. The former supervisor at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab now works at AV startup Zoox. Here’s his story, as told to the reporter Alexa St. John. This […]
Self-driving cars could double congestion on the roads by 2060 because of surge in traffic caused by ‘increased mobility of the elderly and people without a driving licence’, government report warns Self-driving cars could lead to congestion almost doubling, a report found Department for Transport (DfT) analysis shows delays rising […]
Washington, DC CNN Business — For over a decade, companies from Google to General Motors have poured billions of dollars into the pursuit of what was seen as the Holy Grail of driving technology: the fully self-driving car. Such vehicles would usher in an era of consumer safety and convenience, […]
Tesla is aiming to have its self-driving technology ready and widely available by the end of 2022, CEO Elon Musk announced Monday. Musk made the comments during an energy conference in Norway, saying the vehicles will not need human drivers. The company hopes to have a wide release for the vehicles in […]
Apple’s self-driving cars had trouble navigating streets, frequently bumped into curbs and veered out of lanes in the middle of intersections during test drives near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters, according to a report. Apple has been trying to work out the kinks in Project Titan, its autonomous electric vehicle […]