Driverless Car Developers Tackle Rough Weather
Rain, sleet and snow are challenging enough for human drivers. Bad weather conditions present an extra level of difficulty for developers of self-driving cars that depend on cameras and sensors to “see” the road and make the correct decisions at 70 miles per hour....
Howes: Self-driving Car Hype Outruns Market, Rule-maker
Jason Levine, the new head of the Center for Auto Safety, has a thought on the autonomous car exuberance driving the auto industry and would-be investors: slow down. Not because technology doesn’t exist to enable vehicles to steer, turn and stop themselves. It’s...
Transparency Key to Self-driving Regulation, NHTSA Leader Says
Safety remains the top goal, but regulation of autonomous vehicles requires more collaboration, information sharing and flexibility than previous top-down approaches if rapid technological advances and the resulting safety benefits are to be realized, the nation's top...
Ford Faces ‘Significant Work’ Before Autonomous Vehicles Become Reality, Argo AI Exec Says
Argo AI, a Pittsburgh artificial intelligence company backed by Ford, has grown from about two dozen employees a year ago to nearly 200. But Bryan Salesky, Argo AI's CEO, said much work remains before it can help Ford bring an autonomous car to market in 2021. Ford...
No One Knows What a Self-Driving Car Is, And It’s Becoming a Problem
"WE HAVE NOW self-driving cars." So declared no less an authority than the United States' chief of transportation, Secretary Elaine Chao, in a May interview with Fox Business. "They can drive on the highway, follow the white lines on the highway, and there's really no...