The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has identified five major advantages of autonomous vehicles. Most serious car accidents are caused by human error, so the NHTSA believes that ...

Lyft and Baidu plan to start service early next year, joining Uber and Momenta in using electric cars from China, which are ...

Self-driving cars could also improve traffic congestion and transport the elderly and disabled. Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car.

Thrun was already recognized internationally for his contributions to the field of robotics and would go on to co-develop Google Street View, launch the Google Self-Driving Car Project (now known ...

The Google Self-Driving Car Project put up a social post on the topic. All over Silicon Valley, companies are working on self-driving or autonomous vehicles, but Google has been one of the first ...

Waymo, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is embarking on a cross-country tour visiting more than 10 cities this year, and one of them is Houston.

-- After more than 2 million miles on the road, it's possible one of Google 's self-driving SUVs may be at fault in an accident after the car bumped into the side of a public bus at a low speed ...

Simpson is the privacy project director at Consumer Watchdog -- a nonprofit that tried to find out how many accidents Google's self-driving cars have had, asking both Google and the DMV -- both ...