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Tesla Crash Raises Stakes for Self-Driving Vehicle Startups

Carmakers have been using multiple sensors in prototypes that are in testing but not yet ready for market. A variety of technologies with overlapping capabilities is seen as a way to increase safety under a wider range of circumstances.

By Reuters

Business News

This Group Says it Would Not Have Approved Tesla’s Beta-Phase Autopilot Feature

By Reuters

Building a Business

Google: Our Self-Driving Cars Are Nice to Cyclists

By Tom Brant

Business News

Tesla Told Regulators About Autopilot Crash 9 Days After Accident

By Reuters

Building a Business

BMW to Team Up With Tech Firms for Driverless Cars

The company is set to announce an alliance to develop self-driving vehicles with collision detection specialist Mobileye and computer chip maker Intel.

By Reuters

Tech

4 Must-See Tech-Related TED Talks That Excite and Scare Us About the Future

From a heartstring-tugging endorsement of virtual reality as an empathy booster, to a frightening vision of a world where computers take over humans, you won't want to miss these intense talks.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Is Giving Millions to Turn Columbus, Ohio, Into the City of the Future

Self-driving electric shuttles and high-speed WiFi stations may soon grace the the streets of the city as part of a futuristic makeover.

By Cadence Bambenek

Business News

BMW Revamps ‘i’ Electric Car Division to Focus on Self-Driving Tech

While Tesla's Model 3 will hit showrooms in 2017, and as rivals Porsche and Audi are working on all-electric cars for release by 2019, the German carmaker appears to have put such cars on the back burner.

By Reuters

Business News

Honda Shows Off Self-Driving Cars at New Calif Testing Facility

Under the radar, Honda has been building semi-autonomous functionality, including forward-collision warning, lane- departure warning and lane-keeping assist.

By Reuters

Business News

This Is What Being Asleep at the Wheel of a Tesla Model S Looks Like … We Think

The snoozy GIF says it all -- or does it?

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

Group Calls on U.S. to Speed Up Favorable Regulations for Autonomous Cars

In January, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it would unveil guidelines to states and manufacturers on self-driving cars by July.

By Reuters

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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

Thought Leaders

This 29-Year-Old Entrepreneur Was Rejected by 35 Potential Employers. Now, He’s the Co-Founder of a $1 Billion Startup. Here’s How.

Dan Kan, the lesser known co-founder of autonomous driving startup Cruise Automation, which was recently purchased by GM, took a windy road from college to Silicon Valley.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

Google, Ford, Uber Join Coalition to Advance Self-Driving Cars

Lyft and Volvo are also involved.

By Reuters

Business News

Toyota Is Turning This City Into a Giant Connected Car Experiment

The mission is to gather data to make autonomous driving a reality.

By Kirsten Korosec

Building a Business

Founder of GM’s Acquired Company Facing Legal Battle

Cruise founder and CEO Kyle Vogt has filed a complaint in San Fracisco Superior Court against a man he says is falsely claiming a stake in the company.

By Kia Kokalitcheva

Tech

Will We Still Need Stoplights in the Self-Driving Future?

MIT's trying to find out.

By Nina Zipkin

Business News

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Is Building a Platform to Make Traffic Less Horrible

The announcement is part of the Smart City Challenge, a government-sponsored competition that will award $50 million to one U.S. city.

By Kirsten Korosec

Tech

5 Nascent Technologies That Will Radically Shape the Future

Researchers at the frontier of science are making possible technologies likely to change civilization more than anything since electricity.

By Sam McRoberts

Tech

5 Amazing Innovations Coming to Cars

From gasless to driverless, vehicles will change dramatically in the coming years.

By Carly Okyle

Business News

GM Buying Self-Driving Tech Startup for More Than $1 Billion

The acquisition follows GM's recent move to create a team dedicated to the development of self-driving car technology within the company.

By Dan Primack

Business News

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Plus: McDonald's comes to Borat's home country.

By Lindsay Friedman

Tech

We Could Be 3 Years Away From Secured Connected Cars, Automakers Say

While companies work out the kinks in self-driving vehicles' algorithms, hackers are still a huge concern.

By Nina Zipkin

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