U.S. House to Vote on Self-driving Car Legislation Next Week
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving vehicles without human controls and bar states from blocking autonomous vehicles, congressional aides said. The bill, which was passed unanimously by a...
Driverless Cars of the Future Confront Rules Written for Drivers
When the U.S. government finally got around to regulating auto safety in 1967, it insisted that every car have seatbelts and that the steering column be engineered to absorb impact so it wouldn’t spear the driver. The safety rulebook has since swelled to nearly 900...
Driverless Cars Need Ears As Well As Eyes
YOU NEED JUST two eyes and two ears to drive. Those remarkable sensors provide all the info you need to, say, know that a fire engine is coming up fast behind you, so get out of the way. Autonomous vehicles need a whole lot more than that. They use half a dozen...
Rider Interaction With Automated Cars Under Study
Automakers, suppliers and researchers are looking for cues of nervousness and comfort with the idea of self-driving cars. Just how easy or difficult it would be to use a smartphone app to hail and direct an autonomous vehicle. And don’t forget consumers’ reactions to...
As Cars Drive Themselves, Human Driving Skills May Suffer
If your car can hit the brakes in an emergency and check your blind spots, will that make you a worse driver? Increasingly, automakers are worrying it may. Driver-assist technology that keeps cars in their lanes, maintains a safe distance from other vehicles, warns of...