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Self-Driving Cars Still Are Not Ready for Prime Time

Tech nerds may remember back to 2012 when the billionaire founder of Google predicted that self-driving cars would be a thing very soon: (Cnet: Google’s Sergey Brin: You’ll ride in robot cars within 5 years).

But it hasn’t happened, not even close. Maybe the brainiacs of Silicon Valley couldn’t anticipate the vagaries of normal street […]

Expert Expresses Concerns with Safety of Self-Driving Vehicles

The Gold Rush toward domination of the future self-driving vehicle market continues with enthusiasm. The reticence that occurred after a deadly Arizona accident in 2018 appears to have faded, at least according to a recent CBS story. In fact, the article begins by saying, “The race to create the self-driving car continues at a feverish […]

Self-Driving Car Introduction Will Be Postponed

Serious technical difficulties regarding the safety of autonomous vehicles have been noticed by the executives who run automotive development, according to the New York Times.

Apparently, the real world of city streets has proved to be more complicated than the simple suburbs of the Silicon Valley area, where initial self-driving tests were run.

Below, Google’s […]

Apple Expands Its Self-Driving Fleet

In the future, it’s possible we will see cars as computers with wheels and may shop accordingly for a self-driving vehicle that matches up with our laptop — particularly now that Apple is becoming a bigger player in that segment of the automated future. The company appears to be upping its interest in the self-driving […]

California: Self-Driving Taxis Are Planned

While there are skeptics about the self-driving project who think it will require more time and testing to materialize, top corporations are taking concrete steps to move forward. Billion-dollar companies see autonomous vehicles as the future of transportation and they don’t want to be left behind.

Two major automakers have recently announced their intention to […]

MIT’s Self-Driving Car Can Navigate Country Roads

Machines keep getting smarter and more capable of performing jobs formerly done by humans. One recent upgrade to self-driving tech comes from MIT where they have figured out how the cars can maneuver country lanes. Up to this point, companies like Google have tested their vehicles in big cities where they have mapped the exact […]

Self-Driving Waymo Company Purchases Upscale Models

If you thought the recent death caused by a self-driving car in Arizona would stop the industry’s rush toward moving the technology into full public use, you would be wrong. From big corporations to smaller start-ups, major investments have been made to make automated cars a part of future travel, so the competition for market […]

Experts: Self-Driving Technology Apparently Failed in Arizona Death

The initial sales pitch behind self-driving cars was that they would be safer than human-driven vehicles — and indeed, more than 35,000 died in the US from automotive crashes in 2015, so there is enormous room for improvement.

The technology promised enhanced awareness powered by an array of sensors tracking the roadway environment. An Uber […]

Self-driving Cars Will Be Tested in Diverse New York City

General Motors announced that it would begin testing its self-driving cars in New York City next year which shows a high degree of confidence, given the level of density and human randomness.

Usually at this point I would point out the job loss that will result with all those automated autos which would naturally […]

Self-Driving Cars Advance toward Automated Future — with Bumps along the Road

The big auto companies — and a few techies like Google — are locked in competition to see who will dominate the coming self-driving market and the automated transportation future. The companies may imagine that cities will buy whole fleets of autonomous cars which will replace the privately owned vehicles that clutter up the streets […]

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