Selfdrivingcars

Uber lays off 100 safety drivers as it scales back self-driving tests

Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google. Delphi and MobileEye’s Level 4 system is currently slated for 2019, the same year Nutonomy plans to deploy thousands of driverless taxis on the streets of Singapore.

Kroger will use autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries this fall

NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

Americans Less Trusting of Self-Driving Safety Following High-Profile Accidents

Americans are less trusting of self-driving cars following two deadly accidents involving autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles, with half of U.S. adults considering those automobiles less safe than human drivers, according to a new poll. A Morning Consult survey conducted March 29-April 1 among a national sample of 2,202 adults found that 27 percent of respondents said self-driving cars are safer than human drivers, while 50 percent said autonomous vehicles are less safe. Eight percent said the automobiles are on par with human drivers when it comes to safety.

Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do

A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled into the Modern World

Apple, VW sign driverless car deal for Apple campus shuttles, NY Times sources say

Germany adopts first ethics standards for autonomous driving systems

Federal transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt, presented a report to Germany’s cabinet seeking to establish guidelines for the future programming of ethical standards into automated driving software. The report, was prepared by an automated driving ethics commission comprised of scientists and legal experts and produced 20 guidelines to be used by the automotive industry when creating automated driving systems. Shortly after its introduction, Dobrindt announced that the cabinet ratified the guidelines, making Germany the first government in the world to put such measures in place.

Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash

MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

Why spinning lidar sensors might be around for another decade

Sorry Elon Musk, there’s no clear evidence Autopilot saves lives

Volkswagen and Didi Chuxing Have Teamed Up on a New Self-Driving Venture

Motorist who sat in passenger seat of Tesla on UK motorway banned for 18 months

What Happens When a Self-driving Car Is at Fault?

In the eyes of insurers, today’s self-driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they’re involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles. And states that allow companies to test self-driving vehicles require them, as with human drivers, to have insurance. Every autonomous Uber vehicle, for example, is covered by commercial auto liability insurance that covers bodily injury (including death) and property damage.

This startup’s CEO wants to open-source self-driving car safety testing

Velodyne invented modern lidar—it’s about to face real competition

David Hall invented modern three-dimensional lidar more than a decade ago for use in the DARPA Grand Challenge competitions. His company, Velodyne, has dominated the market for self-driving car lidar ever since. Last year, Velodyne opened a factory that it said had the capacity to produce a million lidar units in 2018—far more than any other maker of high-end lidars.

Selling full autonomy before it’s ready could backfire for Tesla

China’s tech giants are venturing into autonomous driving

If there’s one thing China’s tech giants are known for, it’s their ability to venture into everything from social media, to online payments, to delivery services. The latest thing they’re all speeding towards? Autonomous driving.

Autonomous braking: ‘The most significant development since the safety belt’

Waymo Applies to Put Autonomous Cars on CA Roads Without Safety Drivers

Federal officials boot Tesla from crash investigation

The National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday that it has revoked Tesla’s status as a party to its investigation of a fatal Model X crash in Mountain View, California last month.

There’s growing evidence Tesla’s Autopilot handles lane dividers poorly

Thankfully, this crash was different in one important respect: there was a working highway safety barrier in front of the concrete divider. As a result, the crash was much less severe and the driver was able to walk away.

Tesla says Autopilot was active during fatal crash in Mountain View

Tesla in fatal California crash was on Autopilot

Electric carmaker Tesla says a vehicle involved in a fatal crash in California was in Autopilot mode, raising further questions about the safety of self-driving technology.

A Cruise self-driving car got a traffic ticket—GM says it did nothing wrong

Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal

Arizona Government Suspends Uber’s Self Driving Cars from Roads

The move by the Republican governor marks a major step back from his embrace of self-driving vehicles. He previously welcomed Uber and other autonomous vehicle companies to use Arizona as a place for testing under few, if any, regulations. In early March, he authorized self-driving vehicle companies to run tests without a person in the car to act as a safety operator.

Leaked data suggests Uber self-driving car program may be way behind Waymo

How Self-Driving Car Policy Will Determine Life, Death and Everything In-Between

Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say

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 Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking her bicycle outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe about 10 p.m. MST Sunday (0400 GMT Monday) when she was struck by the Uber vehicle traveling at about 40 miles per hour (65 km per hour), police said. The car was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel.

Self-driving cars will cause sprawl

In a 1994 paper called “Anthropological Invariants in Travel Behavior,” he looked at empirical historical data to establish a relationship between the adoption of new transit technology and how much the footprints of cities sprawl.

Baidu Apollo Releases Massive Self-driving Dataset; Teams Up With Berkeley DeepDrive

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

Uber self-driving car crashes into another car in Pittsburgh

An Uber self-driving car collided with another vehicle in Pittsburgh on February 24 in an incident first reported by Pittsburgh’s channel 11 last week. No one was seriously injured, but the incident caused serious damage to the vehicles. Uber and the driver disagree on exactly what happened in the seconds before the crash.

Waymo self-driving trucks are hauling gear for Google data centers

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.

What’s it like to ride in a self-driving car?

I’ve spent the past few months working on a 10,000-word special report on AVs for The Economist, which was published in this week’s issue. The focus of my report is mostly on the long-term implications of AVs, based on the assumption (a reasonable one, I think) that the technology can be made to work reliably in the next few years. Rather than focusing on the minutiae of things like the ever-changing industry alliances, or who is suing who, I concentrated instead on the impact on urban planning, the transformation of retailing and the broader social and political implications of cars that can drive themselves.

Raging human drivers slap, body slam innocent self-driving cars

Of those, two involve humans mildly attacking the car in question. According to state law, companies that operate self-driving cars must report any such incidents to the DMV. Since the Golden State began keeping such records, there have been a total of 58 such reports, including the six in 2018.

Technique to see objects hidden around corners

A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighborhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child’s ball has just rolled. Although no person in the car can see that ball, the car stops to avoid it. This is because the car is outfitted with extremely sensitive laser technology that reflects off nearby objects to see around corners.

The Human Driving Manifesto

Do you like driving? I do. It’s not about speed.

Recreating the self-driving experience: the making of the Waymo 360° video