Gansha Wu was a veteran engineering manager at Intel Corporation and director of Intel Labs China when two events upended his world last year. First, he listened to the veteran technology wr... Read more
There are speculations that Google could be looking to create a fleet of ‘robo-taxis’ Just like touchscreens and wearable technology, self-driving taxi could be another realm of science fict... Read more
When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the technology.... Read more
They estimate that the cost of the system can be brought down from its current £5,000 to only £100 (US$155). Oxford University’s Mobile Robotics Group (MRG) has developed an autonomous navig... Read more
“We have managed to improve the determination of a vehicle’s position in critical cases by between 50 and 90 percent” Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have develo... Read more
Google co-founder Sergey Brin believes that “self-driving cars will be far safer than human-driven cars” but who trusts them enough to drive in them or even alongside them? Drive... Read more
Volvo says that it could have a system capable of operating on conventional highways with mixed traffic within ten years The SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project that first... Read more
As robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them IN THE classic science-fiction film “2001”, the ship’s computer, HAL, faces a dilemma. His instructions r... Read more
Nevada has actually thrown open the door to anyone interested in testing an autonomous vehicle on the state’s roads Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has given Google the nation’s... Read more
Offers fully automatic steering, braking and lane-centering in highway driving While much work is being done to bring autonomous vehicles to the roads, the closest most of us have yet got is... Read more
The future is all about magical yet scary technology Last week I wrote about the inevitability of the driverless automated car and despite the seduction of such technology, there were pros a... Read more
When cars drive themselves, what’s the point of everyone stopping? Where we’re going, we don’t need lights. Google, as you may have heard, has built a fleet of cars that can drive themselves... Read more
The project had achieved 200,000 miles of driving without an accident while cars were under computer control Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highw... Read more
The designs of tomorrow may already be sketched out in secretive R&D labs, but the designs of 2050 are an open slate. Here’s where automotive experts and analysts imagine the humble car... Read more
Inspired by biomimicry, sustainability, artificial intelligence and information technology in general Charles Rattray’s vision of what the automotive industry will be capable of... Read more
