U.S. safety board to probe self-driving shuttle crash in Las Vegas

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal transportation safety officials headed to Las Vegas on Friday to investigate a collision this week between a self-driving shuttle bus...

Starting today, you can now take a driverless bus down the Las Vegas strip

Business Insider Navy ARMA's driverless bus will begin shuttling passengers along a half-mile route in downtown Las Vegas.  The bus has driven Las Vegas's streets before —...

Alphabet Launches the First Taxi Service With No Human Drivers

Bloomberg For almost a decade, self-driving cars have graced public roads -- but always with a person behind the wheel. Now Waymo is yanking the...

Waymo’s $1.86B Damages Estimate Imperiled By Judge

LAW.COM Updated 12 p.m. 11/6/17 with material from the unsealed decision.  SAN FRANCISCO —The judge presiding over Waymo’s driverless car trade secrets case against Uber has...

How Driverless Cars Could Drive Even Deeper Economic Inequality

Fast Company By Ralph McLaughlin The reports of suburbia’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The emergence of driverless cars–like past innovations in transportation technology–will actually put...

AutoNation announces Waymo fleet repair deal, shares jump

Reuters (Reuters) - U.S. auto retailer AutoNation Inc (AN.N) announced a multi-year partnership on Thursday to support Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit, including...

Trump administration working to update driverless vehicle guidance

The Hill The Trump administration is already in the process of updating its federal guidance for driverless vehicles, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Thursday. The Department...

China’s Baidu teams up with Shouqi on driverless cars: Xinhua

Reuters Baidu (BIDU.O) will provide Shouqi with its Baidu Map service, while Shouqi will help Baidu develop high-precision maps for self-driving cars. Baidu will also offer...

Toyota will test autonomous cars at California’s GoMentum station

TechCrunch Toyota’s Research Institute will test its autonomous vehicle tech at GoMentum Station, a 5,000 acre proving ground for self-driving vehicle tech located in Concord,...

Super Hacker George Hotz: I Can Make Your Car Drive Itself for Under $1,000

Reason Full interview at link above... George Hotz, known online as GeoHot, became one of the world's most famous hackers at 17 when he was the...