But today is not that day, fully self-driving cars are still in the future, and sleeping behind the wheel would be exceedingly dangerous to everyone in the car, and anyone on the road surrounding it.

This story originally appeared on WIRED Japan and has been translated from Japanese. A project to develop autonomous vehicles for self-driving taxis has begun in earnest in Japan. The plan put ...

During his four decades leading SoftBank, a free-spending Japanese investment group ... the challenges that have led some to abandon self-driving car efforts. In recent months, Mr. Son, 66 ...

Nissan said it will use self-driving software ... system known as ProPilot. The Japanese automaker said the system will set a “new standard for autonomous driving with advanced collision ...