"General Motors' semi-autonomous "Super Cruise" system will allow drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel for extended periods, but will stop the vehicle automatically if drivers are not attentive, according to a government letter made public on Monday. The...

According to a study at Virginia Tech, drivers operating under a semi-autonomous mode "were observed to engage in a wide range of secondary task activities ... in which the responsibility for managing vehicle speed, spacing, and lane keeping functions were allocated...

This September, Uber, the app-summoned taxi service, launched a fleet of driverless Volvos and Fords in the city of Pittsburgh. While Google has had its own autonomous vehicles on the roads of Mountain View, California, Austin, Texas, Kirkland, Washington, and...

Clarence Ditlow was much more than the Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety (CAS). He was much more than the consummate consumer advocate for highway safety. To untold hundreds of thousands of Americans, he was their guardian angel—with a sword in his hands, waging battle after battle with careless auto companies, complacent government bureaucrats, and Congressional lobbyists whose sole existence is based on delaying or obfuscating any need for safety regulation of the auto industry.

There are very few activists who deserve the appellation “sui generis,” meaning “one of a kind, unique.” Clarence Ditlow, who died on November 10 in Washington after a months-long battle with cancer, was just such an activist.