Self-driving Cars Hitting Red Lights

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...

Tesla Keeps Using Disputed Crash Stat to Defend Autopilot

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...

Elon Musk Has ‘Constructive’ Talk with NTSB over Tesla Crash

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...

The Never Ending Self-Driving Car Project

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...