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Yes, that 18-wheeler on a Texas highway is driving itselfAurora Innovation has launched the first driverless 18-wheeler on American highways, potentially revolutionising cargo transport. While pro...
Self-driving car companies zoom ahead, leaving U.S. regulators behindCruise, Tesla, Alphabet Inc's Waymo and Aurora Innovation Inc are among many companies aiming to deploy fully autonomous vehicle technology...
Tesla sells ‘full self-driving,’ but what is it really?Tesla privately acknowledges the limitations of the technology. As the public advocacy website PlainSite recently revealed after a public r...
Self-driving startup Aurora bets on lidar in first acquisitionAurora recently raised $530 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Amazon.com Inc. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc.
Self-driving dream team gets $530 million from Sequoia, AmazonAurora’s three co-founders are legendary within the tight community of roboticists and engineers who are leading the charge to make self-dr...
VW is said to have approached self-driving startup AuroraThe German carmaker has been scouring Silicon Valley for targets or partnerships that can help it develop self-driving cars and other mobil...
From Uber to Aurora here's why everyone is focusing on self-driving automobileI believe they will be as personal as an Uber, as affordable as public transport, but won’t require I own and run a fuel-guzzling machine t...
Who’s winning the self-driving car race?In the next three years, almost all of these contenders will be able show off cars capable of navigating city streets at casual speeds alon...
Despite Uber-tragedy, Google's self-driving cars aren't slowing downIf a Waymo vehicle encountered a similar situation, CEO Krafcik said that the car would have avoided the death without human help.
Ex-Google, Tesla, Uber driverless czars partner with VW, HyundaiAurora - a startup formed by one-time executives from autonomous car projects at Google, Tesla and Uber - will develop self-driving electri...
Collateral benefit: Why self-driving cars owe a lot to Afghan, Iraq warsThese cars carry scars and dent from participation in a legendary series of competitions organized by the Darpa, a research and development...
Waymo hires ex-Tesla engineer to lead self-driving hardwareJeyachandran, 38, spent nearly seven years at Tesla before leaving earlier this year.
Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google?Self-driving technology has become a fixation for Kalanick. Developing a driverless car, he’s often said, is “existential” to Uber.
Learning more about Google's self-driving cars made me terrified to ever drive againPooling together all of the data from all of its cars, the software inside each one has approximately 90 years of driving experience.
Five revolutionary things promised in five years timeJeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech executives have chosen five as the magic number of years for their big predictions t...
6 Simple Things Google's Self-Driving Car Still Can't HandleThey have been for decades.For Google, that future isn't quite as close as you might think-as of right now, its autonomous vehicle would fa...
There's still one major problem with Google's self-driving carsWhile the idea of simply hopping into a car, pressing a button, and arriving at your destination sounds enticing, we're still far away from...