Bad Weather, Traffic Are True Tests for Robotic Cars

It’s one thing for a self-driving car to navigate the sunny freeways around Phoenix. It’s another thing entirely to survive the streets of Manhattan or Detroit, much less in a snowstorm. That’s why industry experts are watching where carmakers, automotive suppliers...

Self-driving CEO Sees 2018 as Dawn of Robotaxis, Delivery Cars

Self-driving vehicles will be ready to roll next year, though the work to make them affordable to individual consumers is still “in the first inning,” according to the CEO of a company working on the technology. Initial autonomous auto customers will be...

Carmakers Grapple with Robot-car Hacking Fears

Automakers are working to put self-driving cars on U.S. roads as quickly as they can, but developers are still grappling with questions about whether they can be hacked or tricked into making driving errors. Safety advocates have argued that self-driving cars are...