by aieg | Apr 24, 2018 | News
Federal and state officials, once eager advocates of self-driving cars, now are pumping the brakes and demanding greater accountability and information that autos and tech companies may not be willing to provide. Until now, governments have been willing to let private...
by aieg | Apr 24, 2018 | News
Tesla Inc.’s ardent defense of its Autopilot system is getting heat from safety advocates who question a key data point the company has been citing to plead its case. Several times since an Autopilot-linked fatality last month, the electric-car maker has claimed the...
by aieg | Apr 11, 2018 | News
The first driverless cars will be rented, not sold—that has major implications. Crash reports could provide an early warning system At least one state has taken an important step in this direction: California requires companies testing driverless cars to report every...
by aieg | Apr 11, 2018 | News
The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk had a “constructive conversation” on the agency’s probe into a fatal crash involving a Tesla vehicle that was operating in semi-autonomous Autopilot mode, the agency said...
by aieg | Apr 10, 2018 | News
FOR THE PEOPLE who develop self-driving cars—the software engineers, the hardware tinkerers, the welders and the bumper-affixers, the C-Suite execs and the marketing folks paid to sell it all—the rest of the world is bit like like a kid-crowded backseat. Are we there...