Autonomous Vehicles
U.S. Postal Service Now Testing Self-Driving Trucks to Deliver the Mail
The U.S. Postal Service is looking for ways to cut costs while also covering for a shortage of drivers. You can probably guess where this is headed.
Street Design Principles by Sidewalk Labs
Sidewalk Labs, a smart cities shop within the Alphabet corporate structure, is working to revolutionize technology's role in city planning. Sidewalk Labs recently released the street design principles it's using to guide that effort.
Fighting for the Right to Drive in an Autonomous Future
There is a growing movement of humans who don't like the idea of being forced to hand the wheel over to robot drivers.
Cities Increasingly Piloting Autonomous Shuttle Services
There is no shortage of autonomous shuttle services operating around the United States, which means there are plenty of lessons to be learned.
No Demand for 'Defensive Driving' Mode in Self-Driving Cars
General Motors recently cancelled development of "Defensive Driving" software in its autonomous vehicle program. The announcement came just days after Ford announced it had cancelled the development of similar "Safe Driving" software.
Did Uber Just Get Away With Manslaughter?
Remember Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old woman who became the first pedestrian fatality due to an autonomous vehicle when she was hit last March by an Uber with a safety driver in Tempe, Ariz.? Prosecutors found no criminal liability.
Autonomous Vehicle Corridor Planned in Florida
A public-private partnership is under consideration in the Florida State Legislature to create a driverless shuttle route in Altamonte Springs.
Study: Self-Driving Cars Have Trouble Detecting People of Color
The automated decision-making processes of self-driving cars are ill equipped to protect that safety of people of color in public.
Study: Self Driving Cars Could Worsen Congestion and Inequality
It's not all free flowing commutes and world peace in an autonomous vehicle-filled future.
In 2018, Autonomous Vehicles Drove 2 Million Miles in California
Autonomous vehicles are racking up quite a track record in California—and fewer of the miles driven by autonomous vehicles in 2018 had humans at the wheel than in 2017.
Driverless Shuttle Pilot Now Operating in Denver
Take a sneak peak at a potential future.
World's First Level 4 Autonomous Vehicle Factory Planned for Michigan
Waymo, not General Motors, is brining automobile manufacturing back to Michigan.
AV Investments Outpacing Consumer Demand: Report
For all the money pouring into autonomous vehicle technology, the public is still relatively unconvinced about the viability of the technology.
'New Mobility' for Everyone
Looking around the globe for lessons in equitable mobility in the new technology-enabled era of transportation.
Watch a Self-Driving Car Take Out an Autonomous Robot
Is this the future we've been waiting for?
Transportation 2019—Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Some thoughts on what we might have learned in 2018 and what it might mean going forward.
2018 in Review: A Rough Year for Self-Driving Cars
The sober view of self-driving cars doesn't allow much optimism.
The U.S. Has Pole Position in the Race to Deliver Autonomous Vehicles
For a country that loves cars and driving so much, the eagerness to automate transportation is conspicuous.
MSU Campus to Become ‘Mobility Ecosystem'
Michigan State University plans to turn its 5,200-acre campus into a test site for advanced transportation technologies.
New Global Survey of the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles
A paper published in the journal Nature reveals the findings of a survey of 2 million people in 200 countries on the ethics of the "trolley problem" as applied to self-driving cars.
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