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.