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Move Over Uber Drivers: Autonomous Taxis Offer Green Benefits
According to a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a system of driverless taxi fleets would both be cost-effective and greatly reduce per-mile emissions of greenhouse ...
Toyota Supplier: Autonomous Car Tech 15 Years From Full Launch
The technology to make cars fully autonomous probably won't be established until at least 2030, according to the top supplier for the world's biggest automaker. The auto industry will take ...
Ford Pledges to Accelerate Self-Driving Car Development
Ford Motor Co is joining other global automakers in stepping up efforts to roll out self-driving cars, company executives said on Tuesday. The U.S. automaker will expand advanced safety technology, ...
Most Insurers Unprepared For Driverless Vehicles: KPMG Survey
A sizable majority of insurers aren't ready for the arrival of autonomous vehicles, even as their development and testing accelerates, KPMG determined in a new survey. The audit, tax and advisory ...
Steering Wheels, Brakes Gone From Driverless Cars: Google’s Cerf
When Google started reporting accident statistics for its driverless cars in May, the technology giant learned something important that it has incorporated in the second iteration of its vehicles, ...
Driverless Car Tests Marred by Accidents in California
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around the state of California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on ...
Driverless Cars Seen as Inevitable Game-Changer For Insurance and Transportation
Picture a work day that begins like this: You step out of your house and into a self-driving vehicle, which carries you comfortably and safely to your office while you read the newspaper. After ...
Might Human Drivers Be Outlawed?
Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO Elon Musk thinks that human-driven cars could eventually be outlawed as computers show they can do a more efficient and safer job of driving. "In the distant future, ...