Self-driving Bill Critics Oppose Maneuver to Clear Senate
Safety and consumer advocates are urging senators to reject a parliamentary maneuver to secure passage for stalled legislation governing self-driving cars by attaching it to a must-pass reauthorization for the Federal Aviation Administration. The AV START Act, which...
Self-Driving Cars Don’t Need Rules Yet, U.S. Regulator S
It’s premature to regulate the self-driving vehicles being tested by companies such as General Motors Co. and Waymo LLC, the U.S. government’s top auto safety official said. “At this point the technology is so nascent I don’t think it is appropriate today to regulate...
U.S. Regulators Grappling with Self-driving Vehicle Security
In closed-door meetings last March, U.S. transportation regulators and others grappled with questions about whether police should have the power to disable self-driving cars and whether an automatic alert that a robo-taxi had been in a wreck could violate an...
A Cruise-on-Cruise Crash Reveals the Hardest Thing About Self-Driving Tech
STOP ME IF you’ve heard this one before. On June 11, a self-driving Cruise Chevrolet Bolt had just made a left onto San Francisco’s Bryant Street, right near the General Motors-owned company’s garage. Then, whoops: Another self-driving Cruise, this one being driven by...
Autonomous Vehicle Might Drive Cities to Financial Ruin
IN ANN ARBOR, Michigan, last week, 125 mostly white, mostly male, business-card-bearing attendees crowded into a brightly lit ballroom to consider "mobility." That’s the buzzword for a hazy vision of how tech in all forms—including smartphones, credit cards,...