Lucid Motors just shook up the EV world by announcing plans for the world’s first Level 4 autonomous electric vehicle—a car capable of true hands-free, mind-free driving. Long seen as the holy grail ...

A team of scientists upgrade communications between self-driving cars to improve efficiency and enable the vehicles to share current, accurate driving insights. When you purchase through links on our ...

A century ago, a deluge of automobiles swept across the United States, upending city life in its wake. Pedestrian deaths surged. Streetcars, unable to navigate the choking traffic, collapsed. Car ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...

“Mad Max mode” may sound like something out of a video game, but it is a real-life setting for cars currently plying America’s streets. And it poses genuine danger. Despite its name, FSD does not ...

The upshots of self-driving cars for consumers are obvious: safety and convenience. Benefits for corporations aren’t hard to figure out, either. Being able to study and influence travel behavior will ...

SACRAMENTO — After San Bruno police couldn’t figure out how to ticket a driverless taxicab that made an illegal U-turn, the Legislature passed a measure that would hold these companies responsible for ...

When it comes to public attitudes toward using self-driving cars, understanding how the vehicles work is important -- but so are less obvious characteristics like feelings of excitement or pleasure ...

If you Google search ‘self-driving cars’ you’ll quickly find that the technology is no longer a far-off, futuristic pipe dream, but a reality in the here and now. Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit ...

— The number of miles driven by Google’s self-driving cars without causing an accident. Testing began in 2010, with Nevada further paving the way (pun intended) for driverless automobiles; the state ...

San Francisco is an admittedly quirky city, but an emotional debate there over the tragic death of a cat is strangely emblematic about the way too many Americans react to current events. Something bad ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...