A Cadillac CT6 With Semi-Autonomous Super Cruise Sets You Back $71,300

A coterie of semi-autonomous products are set to hit the road in the coming months, with General Motors ahead of the pack, introducing its Super Cruise feature in the new . And now we know how much it’ll cost to buy a CT6 with semi-autonomy: $71,300, . That’s the cost...

Sep 11, 2025

Autonomous Car Legislation Has A Big Test In The U.S. House Next Week

for self-driving cars has been wending its way through the U.S. Congress this year, setting up a key vote next week in the U.S. House. The full House of Representatives will vote next week on bills that would allow automakers to eventually annually that are exempt from existing auto safety...

Sep 11, 2025

U.S. Is Finally About To Release New Self-Driving Car Guidelines: Report

Elaine Chao, the U.S. Transportation Secretary, has said for months that her department would release new voluntary guidelines for self-driving cars. Now, the wait’s about to end, . The revamped guidelines are set to be released next week. Chao is expected to unveil the guidelines at a self-driving car facility...

Sep 11, 2025

This Start-Up Wants To Use CCTV Footage To Develop Self-Driving Car Technology

Autonomous tech start-ups have offered a number of ways—all of which the most appropriate and correct—to approach the development of self-driving cars. A new company out of the United Kingdom, FiveAI, has a fresh take, though: CCTV cameras. The company has raised about $31 million, and it’s hoping to deploy...

Sep 11, 2025

We Can't Trust Humans Not To Screw Up In Audi's New Semi-Autonomous System

Audi lately has been showing off its new semi-autonomous system planned for the sedan. Dubbed the Traffic Jam Pilot, the automaker confidently says it will allow drivers to “focus on a different activity that is supported by the car, such as watching the on-board TV”—so long as they pay some...

Sep 11, 2025

This One Paragraph Illustrates The Insane Payouts For Silicon Valley's Autonomous Tech Engineers

The going rate for a self-driving car engineer in Silicon Valley is, depending on who you ask, . Google knows as much; it arranged for Anthony Levandowski, the ex-Google engineer at the center of the company’s lawsuit with Uber. But new court testimony filed Wednesday offers wonderful insight into the...

Sep 11, 2025

Ex-Google Engineer 'Personally Owned And Controlled' Competing Self-Driving Car Startup Years Before Leaving For Uber

Anthony Levandowski, the ex-Google engineer at the center of with ride-hailing company Uber, “personally owned and controlled” a competing self-driving car startup while he was still employed by Google, the company said in court filings Thursday. Soon after he left Google for Uber, the ride-hailing company purchased the startup. Waymo,...

Sep 11, 2025

Feds To Partially Blame Tesla's Autopilot In Fatal Crash: Report

On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board is expected to find that Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving system, known as Autopilot, should partially be blamed for a 2016 fatal crash involving a Model S that slammed into the side of the truck, . The report comes after the family of Joshua Brown,...

Sep 11, 2025

Limits Of Tesla's Autopilot And Driver Error Cited In Fatal Model S Crash

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board ruled today that the “operational design” of played a key role in a 2016 fatal crash that left the owner of a Model S dead. The vehicle’s semi-autonomous system permitted the driver, Joshua Brown to use Autopilot in ways “inconsistent” with warnings from Tesla...

Sep 11, 2025

The U.S. Transportation Department's New Guidelines For Testing Self-Driving Cars Are Finally Here

Ever since being appointed by President Trump to run the U.S. transportation department, Secretary Elaine Chao has said her agency would update on how automakers should test and deploy self-driving cars. On Tuesday, already a jam-packed day for automated tech in cars, Chao finally released the revamped set of guidelines....

Sep 11, 2025

Here's The Government's Useful Guide To All The Self-Driving Technology On Your New Car

Between the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board of a fatal Tesla crash and the U.S. Transportation Secretary on how to deploy self-driving cars, today has been crazy busy on the autonomous vehicle front. There’s more to share, though: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has that explains the driver-assist tech...

Sep 11, 2025

Self-Driving Cars Won't Deliver You Weed In California

Pizza? . People seem keen to the idea of letting a robocar deliver a greasy pie to your door. Marijuana? Not so much—at least in California. The state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control issued emergency regulations last week that ban autonomous vehicles from delivering a bag of weed to you, Ars...

Sep 11, 2025

Facebook Says, Again, That It Won't Be Making Cars

about Facebook—that, like other oversized tech behemoths of Silicon Valley, it could be making a self-driving car? It wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now. That’s according to the company’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. At the Frankfurt car show this week, Sandberg offered up a joke of sorts...

Sep 11, 2025

'We Need To Fire Anthony': Google Before Finding Out Self-Driving Car Engineer Allegedly Stole Tech

is currently locked in a bitter legal fight with Uber over whether an engineer at the former company stole self-driving tech and brought it to the latter. That engineer abruptly left Google in January 2016 to launch a self-driving truck startup called Otto, which Uber quickly sought to purchase. But...

Sep 11, 2025

Cars Without Fake Grilles

If you had to pick the automotive equivalent of , a pretty safe bet would be fake grilles. They serve a purely aesthetic purpose, and they accomplish that purpose via a little bit of harmless subterfuge. They’re fake, and they’re all over nearly every car on the market today. Have...

Sep 11, 2025