New research revealed a worrying weakness of self-driving vehicles, as a basic laser toy can make such a car completely blind. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan ...

[Michelle Hampson] reports in IEEE Spectrum that Chinese researchers may improve self-driving cars ... polarized light from the car’s cameras in the same way. The images pass through two algorithms.

Pedestrians exit a Waymo self-driving car in front of Google's San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, June 7, 2024. Smith Collection/gado/Gado via Getty Images At least in theory, a self ...

A large group of rowdy skateboarders in San Francisco mobbed a Google-owned Waymo self-driving vehicle on Saturday night. Video posted to Reddit shows several people jump on the car and spray ...

Kyle Vogt is “embarrassed for our species,” but proud of his company’s self-driving technology ... Bloomberg via Getty Images The man then looks at the car and strolls back toward the ...

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.

This system ranks autonomous driving technologies from 0 (with basic safety features like lane departure warning) up to 5 (a fully self-driving car ... van der Wal/Getty Images News/Getty ...

Getty Images Speaking at an event on ... If implemented, a ban on Chinese self-driving cars could be a boon to Musk, as his electric-car company Tesla would face significantly reduced competition ...

Hang onto your baby bonnets: Self-driving technology is coming to strollers ... stroller down hill rushes to save a child’s dropped toy that is rolling away. The stroller brakes on its own.

Update: 09/27/22 3:54 a.m. ET: The article has been updated with more images from the incident ... a video of the beleagured car on Twitter. Notably, the self-driving car was inexplicably blasting ...

Tesla’s famously sky-high market valuation is based in part on the premise that it is not actually a car company at all ... China appear to show that the self-driving technology coming out ...