Smart Cities One way to get self-driving cars on the road faster: let insurers control them Data gathered by autonomous cars and shared with insurance companies could be used to keep the vehicles from taking undue risks. by Jamie Condliffe 2018-04-30T18:16:00-04:00
Smart Cities This startup hopes to keep barf bags out of self-driving cars By filtering out road vibrations, ClearMotion can prevent carsickness in autonomous vehicles. by Erin Winick 2018-04-26T11:02:00-04:00
Smart Cities This new lidar sensor could equip every autonomous car in the world by the end of 2018 The startup Luminar aims to challenge market leaders by building its hardware at a never-before-seen scale. by Jamie Condliffe 2018-04-12T09:35:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence What Uber’s fatal accident could mean for the autonomous-car industry The first pedestrian death leads some to ask whether the industry is moving too fast to deploy the technology. by Will Knight 2018-03-19T19:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines What it felt like to visit the most tech-centric Olympics ever I tried out 5G wireless networks, AI translation robots, and self-driving buses in Pyeongchang. by Yoochul Kim 2018-02-23T14:56:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines And the award for most nauseating self-driving car goes to … I rode in a bunch of autonomous cars so you don’t have to. by Rachel Metz 2018-01-12T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines I rode in a car in Las Vegas that was controlled by a guy in Silicon Valley A startup thinks autonomous cars will need remote humans as backup drivers. For now, it’s kind of nerve-racking. by Rachel Metz 2018-01-11T15:50:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Apparently, People Say “Thank You” to Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Vehicles And other lessons from Ford’s experiment with autonomous cars. by Rachel Metz 2018-01-10T04:54:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Baidu Sees Maps for Self-Driving Cars as Bigger Business Than Web Search It’s China’s biggest search company now, but it could be largely a map maker in the future. by Rachel Metz 2018-01-09T16:05:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Baidu Could Beat Google in Self-Driving Cars with a Totally Google Move By building the Android of autonomous vehicles, Baidu thinks it will make them smarter and safer. by Rachel Metz 2018-01-08T17:30:00-05:00