Ford Global Technologies, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, has filed a patent for new “systems and methods to repossess a vehicle,” including potentially locking certain features after missed payments.
Police in Germany said one person has died and nine were seriously injured after a self-driving test car veered into oncoming traffic.
The autonomous truck startup TuSimple is reportedly under investigation after trying to blame a self-driving truck crash as a result of “human error.” Autonomous vehicle researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say that assigning the blame to a human is misleading, and that common safeguards would have prevented the incident from taking place.
Daimler has reportedly begun testing self-driving trucks on Virginia highways in a partnership with startup firm Torc Robotics. The self-driving trucks will still have humans on board capable of taking over the wheel in case of emergency.
The United States Postal Service has begun tests on a self-driving delivery truck on a route between Phoenix and Dallas.
Ford Motor Company executives have announced a new investment in American workers and the state of Michigan with plans to invest $900 million in the United States, set to create 900 U.S. jobs.
Uber is reportedly “not criminally liable” for a self-driving car crash in 2018, which killed a pedestrian after the car’s transgender felon “back-up driver” was watching a television show on a phone instead of paying attention to the road.
Self-driving cars will cause more car sex to take place, according to a report.
Ride-sharing company Uber has shut down one of its more ambitious research projects, a self-driving truck program.
Self-driving shuttles powered by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) are coming to the streets of one booming Texas city this summer.
Uber has suspended tests of its self-driving cars following a fatal accident involving one of the vehicles.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is last in the driverless vehicle race, despite being frequently hyped by the media, according to a report.
Uber plans to purchase up to 24,000 self-driving Volvo cars in a new deal between the companies.
A self-driving bus crashed just two hours after its launch in Las Vegas, according to a report.
Intel will buy Israeli car tech firm Mobileye for more than $15 billion (14 billion euros), the companies said Monday, in a deal signalling the US computer chip giant’s commitment to technology for self-driving vehicles.
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released its Federal Automated Vehicles policy Monday, detailing its 15-point Safety Assessment and guidelines, which were created to help manufacturers meet safety requirements and prepare the public for driverless cars on the roads.
