Snow and Ice Pose a Vexing Obstacle for Self-Driving Cars

Most testing of autonomous vehicles until now has been in sunny, dry climates. That will have to change before the technology will be useful everywhere. In late 2018, Krzysztof Czarnecki, a professor at Canada’s University of Waterloo, built a self-driving car and...

First Vehicle Designed Not to Have Human Driver OK’d by U.S.

A self-driving delivery vehicle with no driver’s seat, steering wheel or brake pedal has become the first to be cleared by the federal government to operate without the presence of a human. Nuro Inc., a robotics company based in Mountain View, Calif., has been...

Self-driving Cars: Hype-filled Decade Ends on Sobering Note

The calendar will soon turn to 2020, and you can be forgiven if you’re wondering where your self-driving car is. A decade of hype and bold predictions is coming to a quiet end. Automakers and tech companies have promised a transportation utopia, and invested...