Apple Now Has More Self-Driving Car Permits Than Tesla, Uber, and Waymo

Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog

In a study that holds promise for self-driving cars, MIT researchers have developed a system that can image and gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.

Self-Driving Truck Encounters the Unexpected, Then Reaches a Milestone

Starsky Robotics engineers tested and developed the autonomous-driving system, which has been installed in the Freightliner Cascadia for more than a year, and had spent a full week conducting dry runs on the stretch of County Road 833 in southern Florida, just north of the Everglades. They had plotted every conceivable contingency and every imaginable edge-case scenario.

Congress debates allowing tens of thousands of cars with no steering wheel