BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

If you had the chance to take a ride in a self-driving vehicle ... driver safety rather than give the impression that the car is driving itself,” Schieldrop stated in a release.

Self-driving cars are coming. It remains to be seen how long that will take. Plenty of vehicles can more or less drive themselves on highways, but for now, they still can’t completely reliably ...

and that's the moral and ethical dilemma that a self-driving car will eventually have to face. When an accident happens, who is at fault, or what kind of decision-making will it make, such as ...

Self-driving cars might offer a fix but pose risks of their own, experts say. A New Year's Day truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans killed 14 people and injured 35 others, the FBI said ...

The core of the dilemma lies in choosing between actively ... older moral philosophies —what moral guidelines should self-driving car algorithms follow in situations where harm is unavoidable?

Cars now have self-driving features, an evolutionary and phenomenal improvement in human history. Imagine a vehicle that can move on the road without or using minimal effort from a human driver. Such ...

operated by Zoox, a self-driving car company owned by Amazon. Like other robot taxis, the company’s self-driving cars sometimes struggle to drive themselves, so they get help from human ...

The Uber test driver behind the wheel of one of the company’s self-driving ... wheel of the car was meant to monitor the car’s performance and intervene if the autonomous driving software ...

The Waymo self-driving company says it has fixed a problem that caused a car to repeatedly circle a parking lot for about five minutes while its rider was trying to get to an airport. Last month ...