The new will be like what the is for Mercedes, and not just a midsize luxury sedan. The new 5 will be the platform in which BMW will test a ton of new autonomous gizmos. To show everyone what to expect, BMW brought an automated prototype to CES that’s pretty...

In partnering with technology company Nvidia——Mercedes-Benz at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday that artificial intelligence will be the future of its vehicles. Mercedes also said it will have AI technology on the market in a year. Nvidia is widely known for its technology in the gaming industry, but has,...

An Uber driver refused a ride to a New Jersey man before dragging him out of a car and severely beating him, according to a lawsuit filed last week, the latest in a string of allegations levied against drivers for the ride-hailing giant. Joseph Fusco, 30, says in the suit...

Faraday Future’s car at its big debut at CES last week. Oddly, at the same event, the much-anticipated successfully parked itself outside the event building. As it turns out, the car inside was up to something different, as explained by the car’s engineers. Those engineers said the car inside was...

Besides the bonkers official announcements from Ford about , the automaker made waves at this week’s with a TED talk-like event about how to transform cities of the future with the technology we’re enraptured with today—electric and autonomous vehicles, all that good stuff. But without a significant influx in infrastructure...

In what has been otherwise a tremendously boring confirmation hearing, —President-elect Donald Trump’s designee for U.S. transportation secretary—said the incoming administration’s job will be to better familiarize and comfort citizens about the effect autonomous driving technology may have on society. Between repeatedly ensuring members of the U.S. Senate Committee on...

Just days after Tesla announced , the company said Wednesday that it poached an Apple veteran to head the Autopilot engineering team, and he’s tasked with “accelerat[ing] the future of autonomous driving.” Chris Lattner, who spent 11 years at Apple and created the programming language Swift for apps on Apple...

After a recent update to make its Autopilot feature follow the speed limit on the roads and non-divided highways, is partly rolling back the restriction, according to a report confirmed on Twitter by Elon Musk today. Tesla owners with Autopilot were able to set the feature’s cruise control to a...

With each passing year, new cars get more complicated and high-tech. The new higher power requirements associated with these advancements—along with ever-stricter emissions regulations—are why are spreading like wildfire, with experts expecting the tech to make its way into of all cars sold globally by 2025. That’s a huge...

Waymo, the recently-unveiled name for Google’s self-driving program, has planned to launch a ride-hailing service with Fiat Chrysler as early as this year, and a new patent that could connect driverless cars to people who would like to use one suggests it’s serious about developing an autonomous ride-sharing network. The...

What’s that? Airbus is doubling down on its ? Cool! Just what 2017 needed: Yet another wishful plan in the near 100-year quest to make flying cars a reality. Will it happen? (Probably not.) Airbus formed a division called Urban Air Mobility, reports, and — in an act of media-hype...

The auto shows this month may have been nothing short of , but carmakers have to participate in trust falls with consumers, or some sort of icebreaker, if they’re serious about bringing about an autonomous revolution: The findings from a new Deloitte study suggest . Damn. The surveyed 22,000 consumers...

In December, amid mounting concerns about the viability of the electric-car startup , Nevada’s governor and the mayor of the city of North Las Vegas , saying taxpayers in the state are “fully-protected” from the potential ramifications a $335 million incentive deal for FF if it failed to spend $1...

Tall TV man Conan O’Brien last night dished about the self-driving revolution that’s ostensibly before us, with a particular focus on Google’s self-driving project, Waymo. Google has assured the public that “all the kinks” of the autonomous have been worked out, O’Brien says. Or have they? “There have been persistent...

You soon may be able to ask Amazon’s , but if a revealed this week is any indication, the tech behemoth is also working on how to make autonomous vehicles function smoothly. The patent, first reported by this week, aims to address how autonomous vehicles navigate reversible lanes, which allow...