Those Self-Driving Buses Are My God So Slow

Self-driving cars are still outside the reach of ordinary people, but self-driving buses are out prowling the streets of some of the world’s major cities, such as, uh, Helsinki. But holy ghost of Henry Ford are these things slow. These little buses are made by a French company called EasyMile,...

Sep 9, 2025

What's A 'Level 4' Autonomous Car? This Chart Explains Everything

Autonomous cars are coming, and while it may sometimes feel like they’re already here, they’re really not. It can still be confusing, since every manufacturer with anything remotely like an autonomous vehicle . Luckily, levels of autonomy have been decided, and knowing them can help. That’s why we made some...

Sep 9, 2025

Current Tesla Owners May Eventually Be Able To Make Their Cars Fully Autonomous

A Tesla Model X owner just tore into his car, finding what appears to be a provision for a new triple front-facing camera. Here’s video of that tear-down, showing the vacant coax port that thinks might enable some current Teslas to be retrofit for fully-autonomous Autopilot 2.0. Last week, we...

Sep 9, 2025

Tesla Owner Says Model S Screwed Up His Auto-Parking [Updated]

Having a semi-autonomous car is, for the moment, a bit like having a small child. Every day you’re amazed by what it can do, but for the love of all that is holy do not let it do whatever it wants without supervision. Like park. The creator of the video...

Sep 9, 2025

Armed With $6 Million, Tata Goes To Harvard For Autonomous Car Research

Last month, Jaguar Land Rover on UK roads by 2020. It’s quite an ambitious plan, and it looks like now its parent company, Tata Motors, is looking for some Ivy League help. Tata Motors will provide grants of at least $6 million to Harvard University, reports , in order to...

Sep 9, 2025

Here’s A Simple Explanation Of How Self-Driving Cars Could Eliminate Traffic

On the highways or in the cities, sometimes traffic jams extend as far as the eye can see. You snail along at a glacial pace until all of a sudden traffic just clears up for no reason. Self-driving cars aim to fix that. Traffic usually is the result of human...

Sep 9, 2025

Self-Driving Cars Will Use GTA V To Learn How To Drive, Run For The Hills

You probably know isn’t the kind of video game that encourages adherence to posted speed limits. Actually I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to play without committing multiple virtual felonies in the time it takes to load the title screen. So why is it being used as a training platform for...

Sep 9, 2025

The Guy Who Cracked The iPhone Wants To Sell You An Autonomous Driving Kit For $999

At this year’s , PlayStation and iPhone hacker showed us the Comma One, a car add-on kit that will tap into a car’s existing hardware and give it an autonomous driving setting. At the end of 2015, Hotz, the first guy to hack an iPhone, had so that it had...

Sep 9, 2025

America Finally Gets Serious About Self-Driving Cars

The Obama administration is trying to check as many policy boxes as it can on the way out of the door, and today it finally announced a flexible framework for companies and governments involved in developing self-driving cars. President Obama took just a few short minutes during his final State...

Sep 9, 2025

Government's Self-Driving Car Rules Don't Say When Your Car Should Kill You

Today is an , because today the National Highway Safety Administration published the Federal Automated Vehicles Policy, a 116-page document designed to establish an actual Federal-level policy and safety standards for self-driving vehicles. You know they mean business because there’s a futuristic car on the cover with seats that face...

Sep 9, 2025

Looks Like Faraday Future's Sleek Minivan Is A Real Working Car

A heavily camouflaged prototype has been spotted driving around California, looking a little like a blend of Tesla Model X and Toyota Venza. Prevailing speculation is that this is the automotive product shadowy autonomous EV outfit Faraday Future plans to market. Toward the end of last year, Faraday Future started...

Sep 9, 2025

Cars Are Learning From Humans Now And Did We Learn Nothing From The Terminator?

Technology company Nvidia developed a system that allows a car to learn how to drive itself by essentially being a working, thinking passenger to a human driver, according to . Cool technology. Great. But did anyone listen when the movies warned us not to let machines learn things? In the...

Sep 9, 2025

California May Soon Let Autonomous Cars Roam Without Humans Inside

New California draft regulations released on Friday would allow approved self-driving cars to drive on state roads without a human in the car. The drafts also include rules about not advertising semi-autonomous cars as “self-driving” or “autonomous,” because . The draft regulations would allow for no humans to be present...

Sep 9, 2025

This MIT Online Activity Lets You Choose Who Gets Killed If A Self-Driving Car Wrecks

The closer we get to fully autonomous car technology on the market, the more questions we seem to have. Recently, they’ve been morbid: if a self-driving car is in a fatal wreck, how does it decide who dies? Well, now you can understand just how hard those decisions will be...

Sep 9, 2025

Are Uber's Self-Driving Cars Driving Like Asshats Around Pittsburgh? [Updated]

Pittsburgh is Uber’s self-driving-car testbed, hosting the company’s “Advanced Technology Center” and dozens of its self-driving “pilot program” Ford Fusions. Now, according to website , there are reports of these self-driving cars causing all sorts of ruckus in the PGH. According to the business site, on September 24th, an Uber...

Sep 9, 2025