Alphabet to Pack its Digital City With Autonomous Delivery Vans
Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous vehicle technology will be a big part of its Toronto project to make urban life more Googley.
October 18, 2017Intel Proposes System to Make Self-Driving Cars Blameless
Intel Corp. has developed a system it says ensures that self-driving vehicles can’t cause accidents, an effort to reassure a skeptical public and help speed adoption of driverless cars on the road.
October 18, 2017GM President Dismisses Hype About $30 Billion Self-Driving Tech Spinoff
General Motors Co. shot down speculation that it’ll spin off its business units working on self-driving vehicles and car-sharing, which one analyst has estimated could be worth as much as $30 billion.
October 17, 2017Ohio Turnpike Commission Approves Communications System for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Alerts about traffic, weather, work zones and other conditions should start popping up early next year on the dashboards of digitally connected vehicles on 52 miles of the Ohio Turnpike near Cleveland.
October 17, 2017Driverless Cars Will Open the Door to a Building Spree
Even as reclaimed parking spaces fuel a downtown building boom, autonomous vehicles will encourage builders to push deeper into the exurban fringe, confident that homebuyers will tolerate longer commutes now that they don’t have to drive, according to the report, sponsored by a unit of Capital One Financial Corp.
October 17, 2017The Newest Frontier for Hackers: Your Car
As computer technology increasingly controls critical vehicle safety features and more cars are connected to the internet, the danger of a hacker taking control of vehicles is becoming less like a Hollywood movie plot and more like something that can actually happen.
October 16, 2017Daimler Moves to Separate Mercedes, Trucks to Counter Tech Shift
Daimler AG is firming up plans for its biggest corporate overhaul in a decade, granting its cars and trucks operations more independence in a bid to become more nimble and better confront the disruptive shift to self-driving electric vehicles.
October 16, 2017GM Shows Off Autonomous Cargo Hauling Concept Vehicle
General Motors says it “aims to solve some of the toughest transportation challenges created by natural disasters, complex logistics environments and global conflicts” with its new Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure.
October 13, 2017Nvidia's Powerful New Computer to Power DHL Autonomous Delivery Vehicles
Nvidia Corp. said Oct. 10 it’s helping Deutsche Post AG and its subsidiary DHL automate their fleet of electric delivery vehicles with a powerful new computer.
October 13, 2017Coming Soon to California: Cars Without a Human Behind the Wheel
California took another step Oct. 11 toward permitting testing of self-driving vehicles without a human driver, continuing a shift away from previous policies that companies criticized as being overly restrictive.
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