Autonomous Driving

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Sit up, everyone. It’s time to learn a new tech acronym: V2I, or vehicle-to-infrastructure Audi on Tuesday announced that its V2I-powered traffic light networking…

Boeing completes first flight for self-flying aircraft

Aerospace company Boeing has completed its first flight with Boeing NeXt, an “autonomous passenger air vehicle” (PAV). “The PAV prototype completed a controlled takeoff,…

Nvidia teams up with Uber, VW for self-driving, AI tech

Graphics company Nvidia is no stranger to self-driving technology, having previously shown off its DRIVE range of chips for automotive use. Now, the company…

Self-driving truck makes beer delivery in first

Uber-owned startup Otto has teamed up with Budweiser to make what it calls the first delivery by self-driving truck. Otto has been working on…

Tesla delivers big Autopilot upgrade with new firmware

Tesla saw plenty of bad press thanks to a fatal crash in Autopilot mode earlier this year. However, the latest firmware update is heavily focused on…

Nvidia’s neural network taught itself to drive cars

Self-driving cars are quickly becoming one of the hottest things in the automotive industry. But is driving easy enough for a neural network to learn with…

VISION NEXT 100: Rolls-Royce reveals its first autonomous ‘floating’ car

Rolls-Royce unveiled its vision of future automotive luxury at the Roundhouse in London last week, a fully autonomous spectacle of opulence called the “103EX”….

Audi: fully autonomous cars still at least a decade away

While Elon Musk is having to curb Tesla owners from being overly exuberant with their autopilot functionality, Audi thinks we’re still a decade away…

Google’s taught its self-driving cars to be extra careful around kids

Anyone who’s spent more than a few minutes around small children will know that they can be, well, unpredictable. It seems Google’s realised as…

Merc’s got another autonomous concept planned for Tokyo

Mercedes-Benz seems determined to prove to the world that it’s ahead of the pack when it comes to autonomous motoring. The German auto giant…

Toyota wants to put driverless cars on the road by 2020 Olympic Games

Driverless cars are becoming less of a fad and more of a future reality, especially when companies like Toyota get involved. One of the…

Autonomous cars won’t really take off until manufacturers start cooperating

Every month seems to bring a new development in the autonomous motoring space, whether it’s Tesla drivers being able to beta test software or…

Why the difference between self-driving and autonomous vehicles really matters

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the adjective “autonomous” describes something – in our case, a motor vehicle – that has “the freedom to govern…

Google says crashes involving its self-driving cars are mostly down to human error

Google has hit back at a report from the Associated Press which says that three of its self-driving cars have been involved in accidents…

This autonomous truck just got a license to hit the highways of Nevada

If you’re afraid of autonomous vehicles, you might want to avoid the roads of Nevada. That state has officially granted Daimler trucking subsidiary Freightliner…

We know autonomous cars are coming, but what form will they arrive in?

Autonomous cars are coming. Sure we’ve still got a long way to go, especially when it comes to the ethics and safety behind them,…

Bosch reckons we’ll be able to tweak the performance of our autonomous cars

We’ve seen some fantastic imaginings around the future of autonomous driving, with the most outlandish suggesting that our cars could end up being four-wheeled…

Self-driving cars? Pah! How about just meeting basic safety standards first?

Safety. This single word is ostensibly one of the major driving forces behind the global push towards the autonomous car. The self-driving vehicle, many…

Could motion sickness put the brakes on autonomous motoring?

With autonomous cars now certain to be an inevitable part of our driving future, plenty of column inches have been spent explaining how much…

Elon Musk: driving your own car will be illegal in the future

Never one to be backward when it comes to making bold declarations about the future, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has predicted that once autonomous…

Audi wants students to build tiny autonomous cars

When you’re a student, there are plenty of ways to fill your day. Given a choice though, few would take on the most productive…

Watch what happens when BMW pits a self-drifting car against one with a champion driver

There was a time, not all that long ago, when drifting was a risky back-street activity that took place outside the bounds of the…

Wondering what’ll get people into self-driving cars? Think safety

Fifty years ago, auto insiders predicted that cars would run driver-free by 2000. Now, 15 years into the new millennium, such technology could be…

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