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Voluntary Guidelines for Self-Driving Vehicles Proposed by U.S.
In the waning days of President Joe Biden's administration, the government's highway safety agency is proposing voluntary safety guidelines for self-driving vehicles. But a rule from the National ...
GM’s Cruise to Offer Robotaxis on Uber’s Platform Next Year
Cruise will offer its autonomous vehicles on ride-hailing platform Uber starting next year, the companies said last Thursday, as the General Motors-backed robotaxi firm attempts a comeback. The ...
Study: Reflective Black Paint Improves Object Visibility to Autonomous Cars
Self-driving cars have a harder time seeing at night because lidar sensors that often act as the vehicles' "eyes" have difficulty detecting dark-colored objects. New research published in ACS Applied ...
Robotaxi Bet Risky for Tesla
Tesla is making a risky bet if it shifts efforts on its small-car vehicle platform to robotaxis as the successful introduction of vehicles that drive themselves is in the distant future, and the ...
Former U.S. Road Safety Chief Confident Agency Can Regulate High-Tech Vehicles
In the past 15 months, no one has been more responsible for safety on the nation's roads than Ann Carlson. For much of that time she has served as acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic ...
How GM’s Cruise Robotaxi Tech Failures Led to Pedestrian Dragging Incident
A General Motors Cruise robotaxi that struck and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet (6 meters) in an October accident made a number of technical errors that exacerbated its failings after the collision, an ...
U.S. House Panel Considers Reviving Self-Driving Car Regulation
U.S. lawmakers will look to jump start long-stalled legislation on the safe and regulated adoption of self-driving cars at a congressional hearing on July 26. The panel will consider separate draft ...
Tesla Wins Bellwether Trial Over Autopilot Crash
A California state court jury on Friday handed Tesla Inc. a sweeping win, finding the electric vehicle maker's Autopilot feature did not fail in what appeared to be the ...
