California DMV Proposes Relaxed Regulations for Self-driving Cars

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is proposing more lenient state regulations to allow manufacturers to test and deploy self-driving cars. The agency said Wednesday that it would allow autonomous vehicles to be tested without a human behind the wheel, and...

Autonomous Cars: How Safe Is Safe Enough?

One morning this past spring, Baruch Fisch­hoff, a professor in the department of ­engineering and public policy at Carnegie ­Mellon University, was walking to campus on a quiet tree-lined Pittsburgh street when a prototype computer-driven Uber, a gray Volvo XC90,...

GM More Than Doubles Self-driving Car Test Fleet in California

General Motors Co’s (GM.N) self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, has more than doubled the size of its test fleet of robot cars in California during the past three months, a GM spokesman said on Wednesday. As the company increases the size of its test fleet, it has...