Business News
Waymo Shut Down San Francisco Robotaxis on Christmas Due to Flash Flood Warnings
The surprise move came just days after its self-driving cars caused gridlock during a power outage.
Driverless Cars
Tech
Robots Are Stealing Our Jobs
A recent study predicts automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030. If you're worried, you should be.
By Phil La Duke
Thought Leaders
General Motors’ Layoffs Present Ample Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
Driverless cars are the future. From software to support production to algorithms to battery technology, companies like yours will be needed.
By Per Bylund
Tech
Dear Young, Future Entrepreneurs: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Fear Automation
In a recent study, more than one-third of employed millennials surveyed said they believed that within 20 years, machines would be able to do the job they -- the humans -- do today. Only one in 10 feared that future.
Business News
Grand Theft Auto V Is Helping Teach Driverless Car AI
The game is a very rich and realistic simulation from which to learn to drive.
Business Ideas
Can This 24-Year-Old’s Startup Prevent 86 Percent of Traffic Accidents?
Coming soon: "safe driving system" technology to keep track of your business's employee-drivers, as well as that teen in the family car.
Tech
Are Self-Driving Cars Finally Ready for Consumers? What Entrepreneurs Need to Know.
It's a bit ambitious to say that 2017 will be the year self-driving cars take over, but it's reasonable to expect massive progress this year.
Tech
Do Driverless Cars Spell Doom for the Insurance Industry?
The insurance-industry landscape is drastically changing in the face of driverless cars. For one thing, rates are expected to go down.
Building a Business
3 Ways to Create Successful Proprietary Tech
Proprietary, non-replicated technology can help companies establish and sharpen their competitive edges.
Business News
China’s Alibaba Puts Internet In Cars, Plans To Take Drivers Out
"You'll quickly see driverless car technology resulting from this platform." - CTO, Alibaba
Building a Business
Google, Fiat Chrysler Team Up on Self-Driving Minivans
This is the first time that a Silicon Valley company has partnered with a traditional automaker to create a driverless vehicle.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Google, Fiat Chrysler Reportedly Working on Self-Driving Car Deal
Anonymous sources say the partnership could be announced soon.
By Reuters
Tech
Will We Still Need Stoplights in the Self-Driving Future?
MIT's trying to find out.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
At SXSW: What You Missed This Weekend
The festival started with Inspirational keynotes, double rainbows and more.
By Linda Lacina
Tech
5 Amazing Innovations Coming to Cars
From gasless to driverless, vehicles will change dramatically in the coming years.
By Carly Okyle
Business News
Japan Driverless Taxi Startup Eyes Partnerships With Automakers
The venture has set the 2020 Games in Tokyo as a target to develop software to operate driverless cars and an online service to ferry athletes and tourists between Olympic venues and the city's transport hubs.
By Reuters
Online Presence
Zenefits to Staffers: No Sex at Work — Start Up Your Day Roundup
Plus: Uber defends its background check policy.
By Linda Lacina
Tech
Google Hires Longtime Car Exec to Head Up Its Driverless Car Division
John Krafcik has previously worked at Ford, Hyundai and online car sales company TrueCar.
Tech
Poll: 1 in 4 Americans Supports Laws Restricting Human-Driven Cars
More people are warming up to letting robots take the wheel. How about you?
Building a Business
Spooked by Self-Driving Cars? Get a Load of Daimler’s Awesome Autonomous Big Rig.
Truck yeah. Daimler went big, bold and driverless last night, debuting America's first street-legal self-driving commercial freightliner on the Hoover Dam.
Tech
Driverless Cars Won’t Make Roadways Perfectly Safe
While self-driving cars could eventually improve driving conditions overall, the expectation of zero fatalities is not realistic, a new report says.
Building a Business
Check Out the Car That Just Drove Itself Across the U.S.
The car navigated through mountains, heat, traffic jams, trucks, road construction and even tumbleweed.
By Jason Fell
Tech
Google Granted Patent for Airbags That Deploy on the Outside of Self-Driving Cars
The bumper-like feature would ostensibly protect pedestrians in the event of an accident.
By Geoff Weiss
Building a Business
This Is What It’s Like to Ride in a Driverless Car
Are fully autonomous, 'driverless' cars within grasp? A new Mercedes-Benz prototype shows the possibilities.
Building a Business
Are Trains and Self-Driving Cars Headed for a (Political) Collision?
The promise of autonomous vehicles is becoming a talking point for opponents of mass transit systems.
Building a Business
Self-Driving Cars: The Next Terrorism Threat?
Experts are concerned that new industry technology could be susceptible to sinister cybercriminal activity.
By Matt Clinch
Building a Business
How $10,000 Can Score You a Self-Driving Car (Sort Of)
San Francisco-based Cruise Automation has created a new gadget that gives any car self-driving capabilities.
By Emily Price