It all seemed very seat-of-the-pants, befitting Tesla's brash chief executive, Elon Musk. And the first days were messy. Viral videos of the robotaxis depict basic fumbles, like the car pulling up ...

The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, buy an autonomous vehicles start-up as ...

Two decades ago, the US military kicked off the race to build self-driving cars by sending a fleet of fledgling robot ...

Self-driving cars have been held up as the future of the automotive industry for several years—but how close are we really to being able to take our hands off the wheel for good, ...

Waymo’s self-driving cars, after all, have now navigated some ten million miles in 25 cities. Which is extraordinary, considering how murky the world of traffic can be.

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The Cruise accident might seem like an argument against self-driving cars, but human drivers have terrible accidents, too. The question is not whether autonomous vehicles are perfectly safe, but ...

Hot doesn't even begin to describe the NIO EVE, a self-driving electric concept car straight out of a sci-fi movie that's packed from top to bottom with every buzzy new technology imaginable ...

When I took my first self-driving ride in the mid-2010s, in a Waymo car, the hype surrounding the technology was approaching its peak. Across the industry, executives insisted autonomous vehicles ...