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Thomas Peter / Reuters 7 Arguments Against the Autonomous-Vehicle Utopia
All the ways the self-driving future won’t come to pass
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Caitlin O'Hara Finally, the Self-Driving Car
Google’s sister company Waymo built the self-driving car. Now it needs to bring it to life.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Travis Kalanick Is Taking a Break From Uber
The embattled CEO says he’s not sure how long he’ll be on leave.
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Christian Charisius / Reuters A Doozy of a Lawsuit Over Self-Driving Cars
Waymo is suing Uber, and says a former employee stole nearly 10 gigabytes of secret files.
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Chris Keane / Reuters Could Self-Driving Cars Speed Hurricane Evacuations?
The case for a fully autonomous escape plan
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Why Is the Biggest Name in Self-Driving Cars Leaving Google?
Chris Urmson’s departure raises a host of questions about the future of driverless vehicles.
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Uber Uber’s Latest Push Toward Driverless Cars
The ride-hailing service’s new plan to collect street-view photos in Mexico further lays the groundwork for a fleet of autonomous vehicles.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters Two Big Questions for Elon Musk
The Tesla CEO says it would be “morally reprehensible” for his company to build a fully driverless car before introducing semi-autonomous safety features. But how do we know Autopilot is safer than the alternative?
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Stephen Lam / Reuters A Tesla Fatality and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
The Model S’s Autopilot isn’t technically a driverless feature, but the federal investigation into why a driver using it was killed will still influence the future of driverless vehicles.
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Library of Congress Your Grandmother’s Driverless Car
The driverless vehicles of the 1920s were called “phantom autos,” and they were remote-controlled by the tapping of a telegraph key.
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Reuters/Edgar Su Will Robocars Kick Humans Off City Streets?
Self-driving cars could encourage policies that end public access to America’s roads.
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Andy Clark / Reuters Why Google’s Driverless Cars Should Go to Honolulu Next
If the company’s not ready for snow, it should head to a sunny place where traffic problems and road safety are particularly bad.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters The Brilliance of the Self-Driving Minivan
A new partnership between Google and Chrysler is a reminder that self-driving cars won’t go anywhere until the public trusts they’re safe.
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Yuya Shino / Reuters Robots That Act Differently When You’re Around
The machines of the future will tailor their behavior to humans—and even individual personalities.
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Kevin Bartram / Reuters Driverless-Car Makers on Privacy: Just Trust Us
Members of Congress are calling for new rules that determine how companies can use personal data collected by autonomous vehicles.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters How Self-Driving Cars Will Threaten Privacy
Automated vehicles will learn everything about you—and influence your behavior in ways you might not even realize.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Public Records Suggest One Company Is Dominating the Self-Driving Cars Race
Eleven manufacturers have test permits in California, but how many driverless vehicles does each have on the road?
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters What Should We Call Self-Driving Cars?
“Driverless,” “autonomous,” or something else altogether?
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Can Google’s Driverless Car Project Survive a Fatal Accident?
To understand the future of self-driving cars, it helps to look back to the first lethal auto accidents, more than a century ago.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Who Drives a Driverless Car?
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Google’s Self-Driving System can be considered a car’s “driver.”
