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 ...

When I mention self-driving cars to someone outside the tech bubble that is the San Francisco Bay Area, they'll often ask, "Do you really think they'll become a reality?" To which I respond ...

If governments slow approval of self-driving cars—or give local governments the ability to stop their use based on anecdotes and irrational fears—then we'll likely have more deaths and injuries.

Geofencing limits self-driving cars to specific areas, hampering universal rollout and scalability. Self-driving cars ...

Clearly, it is reasonable to project that the supervised self-driving cars available to the general public can reduce crashes compared to human drivers and as a result reduce injuries and fatalities.

Over the next 10 years, first at Wired Magazine, now at The New York Times, I covered the high-speed race to bring self-driving cars into the lives of everyday Americans. And during that time it ...

Like other robot taxis, the company’s self-driving cars sometimes struggle to drive themselves, so they get help from human technicians sitting in a room about 500 miles away. Inside companies ...

Even if you fixed those problems and created the perfect robotaxi, though, there are still plenty of downsides to handing our cities over to an army of self-driving cars. For example, what happens ...

This unsettling scenario isn't science fiction; it’s a very real moral dilemma as self-driving cars become more common. The ethical puzzle of autonomous vehicles is rooted in the famous "trolley ...

"Think of it like creating a network of shared experiences for self-driving cars," said Yong Liu ... decentralized learning towards achieving swarm intelligence. The researchers have made their ...