Driverless

The goal is to bring more engineers with experience in autonomous vehicle technology to the iPhone maker.

Avinew was the acquiring company in the arrangement, planning to incorporate the latter's route-choice technology into its offering for autonomous cars.

Travelers’ Michael Klein kicked off Dig | In with a look at how the driverless future will affect insurance.

LIDAR, which stands for light detection and ranging, is a critical technology as the world’s leading automakers, tech companies and startups race to make fully autonomous cars a reality.

The technology will offer assisted-driving features on highways.

The Google off-shoot is currently the only self-driving company carrying paying customers on public roads, although often monitored by human safety drivers.

Lawyer for deceased said that his team had access to the vehicle after the crash but that the data in the car is proprietary and Tesla has not shared it.

Perhaps smartphones can be improved to detect and warn of oncoming vehicle menaces, or improvements could come on the vehicle side.

Can the automaker really compete with established insurance companies on managing the risk of its vehicles?

Founder Elon Musk has bristled for at how some Tesla customers have paid higher insurance rates, undercutting safety claims about its Autopilot system.

At issue are the rules of the road for future connected and automated cars in Europe, which will dictate how to send information between vehicles and infrastructure.

Insurers need to stay very close to the autonomous wave, says Deeksha Joshi, managing director, Liberty Mutual.

The Alpine state is at the forefront of some cutting-edge research that stands to reshape the future of transportation, in particular driverless-car technology.

There is little debate that we are in the beginning stages of monumental transformation, and the implications for the insurance industry couldn’t be greater.

The deal is part of a plan to start running highly automated vehicles on U.S. roads, starting with routes between logistics centers outside of cities.

From the early 2020s, Volvos will have the ability to notice if a driver is clearly intoxicated or erratic and allow the car to intervene.

Seven in 10 Americans don’t want to go anywhere near self-driving cars.

Dogan Kaleli, leader of the program business, finds opportunities to pilot various emerging techs in his role and beyond.

The German manufacturers have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop the next generation of autonomous-driving technology.

Of all the challenges facing self-driving technology, what-if instances like these are among the most daunting.