autonomous cars
Audi Autonomous Cars Licensed for Public Roads
Audi just became the first automaker to obtain a license to test its autonomous cars on public roads in Nevada.
Lexus Teasing Autonomous Car Ahead of CES – Video
Lexus will be unveiling a new suite of autonomous vehicle technology at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and today the brand released a very short clip showing off a driverless Lexus LS.
Drivers Not Sold on Autonomous Cars: Survey
Motorists in the U.K. are still skeptical of autonomous cars with forty percent of drivers saying they would never even consider one according to a new survey undertaken by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM).
Top 10 Most Important Cars of All Time
Cars have shaped the world we live in by giving mobility to the masses. Over the past century and beyond there have been plenty of revolutionary vehicles, not to mention quite a few clunkers.
Human Controls for Driverless Cars Reseached by NHTSA
It might have seemed like science fiction a few years ago, but NHTSA is already preparing standards for self-driving cars.
Self-Driving Cars Now Legal in California
Experts at IEEE believe that 75 percent of the cars on the road in 2040 will be autonomous, and now the state of California is well on its way to getting there.
75 Percent of Cars in 2040 will be Autonomous: Experts
Expert members at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, believe that by 2040, 75 percent of cars on the road will be autonomous.
Florida Political Commercial Attacks Autonomous Cars
Autonomous cars are instruments of the Devil and they need to be kept off the road. They commit wicked acts like driving blind people on errands.
Google Self Driving Cars Claim 300,000 Miles of Testing
Google is adding the Lexus RX450h to its self-driving car lineup as it looks toward testing in different environments and terrains, pushing ahead with developing its technology.
GM Studying Driver Habits to Fine-Tune Self-Driven Cars
Autonomous vehicle technology may be a reality in cars by 2015, and General Motors is one of the leaders in the new technology.
Watch How Autonomous Cars Would Affect Intersections – Video
You might have wondered what it would be like to have our vehicles drive themselves, but seeing how it could affect roadways as we know it is, well, terrifying. One of the biggest impacts autonomous cars would have is at intersections. With driverless cars controlling themselves, the need for traffic lights and even stop signs…
California May be Next to Legislate Autonomous Cars
California seems to be the next in line to legislate standards for autonomous vehicles after California Sen. Alex Padilla took a ride to the state capital to introduce a new bill. He took that ride in one of Google’s autonomous Toyota Prius fleet vehicles and seemed wowed by the trip. “It was pretty amazing when Google’s vehicle went…
Autonomous Cars in Nevada to Get Red License Plates
Nevada is first state in the U.S. to approve the legal road use of autonomous vehicles, perhaps due to the long stretches of straight desert roads that can be found in the Silver State. Such approval isn’t without provisos: any self driving vehicle on the road must be indicated with a red license plate. Red, usually the…
China Challenges Google With its Own Autonomous Car
Google isn’t alone in its plan to bring autonomous cars to roads near you. There is now at lest one other major player, with the National University of Defense Technology in China having built a self-driving project of its own. Working with China’s First Auto Works, the university researchers took a Hongqi HQ3 sedan and…
Volkswagen Shows Off Near-Production “Temporary Auto Pilot” Technology
Years from now you’ll remember reading this article. It will be the first time you ever heard about Volkswagen‘s new Temporary Auto Pilot, a technology that lets a car essentially drive by itself. Science fiction? Hardly, VW claims its far closer to rolling this auto pilot option in production models that you’d expect. Anyone who’s…
Google Lobbying Nevada to Allow Driverless Cars
After secretly testing a fleet of autonomous cars in California, Google is now looking to shift driverless ‘driving’ into gear in Nevada, lobbying state officials to allow the vehicle to be legally driven on public roads. To achieve their goal, and the dream of the projects creator and former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, Google has…
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