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Google's driverless cars are bristling with sensors, but what do they all do? (extremetech.com)
It seems that once a driver of one of Google's automatic cars drives over the QR code - or reference indicator, as it is called in the patent - the car then takes over the controls. (techradar.com)
There's no actual timeline for when we will see these cars in action but an automated car has been spotted driving around Google's Mountain View campus. (techradar.com)
Google's autonomous car would have no steering wheel, or even pedals. (city-journal.org)
But Google's vision for driverless cars is different - at least for their proposed pioneering models. (spokesman.com)
To exemplify Google's urgency, Urmson has set a goal of rolling out driverless technology by the time his sons, now 9 and 11, reach driving age. (spokesman.com)
Google's persistence, coupled with an automotive industry watching and ready to "leap," make it evident to me that some form of driverless automobiles will be made available to the general public in the foreseeable future. (spokesman.com)
A new TED Talk from the head of Google's driverless car program indicates that we might be closer to the big revolution than we think. (i-programmer.info)
During a driverless ride demo in October, Waymo, Google's self-driving affiliate, said it had a call center to help passengers, similar to GM's OnStar, but it did not have the power to remotely drive the vehicle. (autonews.com)
Development of autonomous driving systems has accelerated rapidly since the unveiling of Google's driverless car in 2012. (daijiworld.com)
Driverless cars - also called self-driving cars, autonomous cars, robotic cars and sometimes Google cars (because of Google's aggressive moonshot bet on autonomous cars) - are vehicles with new advanced technology that enable them to sense the environment and navigate without a human driver behind the wheel. (michiganautolaw.com)
At the time, the technology was new, leaving designers for Google's Self-Driving Car Project without a lot of direction. (discovermagazine.com)
We didn't know what to do," says Ahn , now the head of design for Waymo, the autonomous car company that was built from Google's original project. (discovermagazine.com)
Then there are Google's driverless cars 2 , which have been tested over millions of miles, mostly successfully, in California and other states, and Tesl 3 has recently updated the software in its Model S 85 electric cars to Version 7.0, featuring Autopilot. (rias.co.uk)
Still, with Google's self driving car recently exceeding 300,000 miles without logging an accident , the emerging technology has undeniable potential to make roads safer for everyone. (gjel.com)

California is already more accommodating to self-driving cars than many parts of the country, but it's taking that friendliness one step further today. (engadget.com)
California wants to ban self-driving cars, though it's not sure why. (city-journal.org)
Per Chris Urmson, the former Carnegie Mellon University researcher who leads the project, Google is thinking of first offering its self-driving cars as shuttles for Google employees or as a service for the whole city of Mountain View (the California town hosting Google headquarters). (spokesman.com)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved deployment of 5,000 driverless, electric delivery vehicles on California streets, reviving debate in Congress over need for regulation of autonomous transportation. (governing.com)
In the absence of congressional action, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a Transportation Department office tasked with overseeing highway safety, last week allowed California-based Nuro to deploy up to 5,000 driverless, electric delivery vehicles. (governing.com)
Lyft started testing autonomous vehicles in California in November 2018 with a view to one day offering rides to customers in driverless cars. (digitaltrends.com)
Google has been developing a driverless car, operated by software that replicates human driving ability and judgement (hopefully not any humans from Long Island*) and is operated by Google engineers in California. (themarysue.com)
Originally meant to be just a fun testing prototype toy for use in the Google parking lot at their headquarters in Mountain View, California, the driverless Prius will be taking a field trip to the Silver State - which was likely the only state Google could talk into giving a car a drivers license. (themarysue.com)
Pittsburgh welcomed Uber's autonomous fleet last fall, Contra Costa County, in California, converted a former naval station into an autonomous vehicle testing center, and Tempe, Arizona, got some Uber self-driving cars in December. (nextcity.org)
California is now the third state to legalize driverless cars, joining the ranks of Nevada and Florida in paving the way for what might be the new technology's largest obstacles yet: testing and regulation. (gjel.com)
Similar to Arizona and, more recently, California, companies will have the option to put their autonomous cars on Ohio's roads without a safety driver behind the wheel, though in this case a licensed operator will be required to monitor the car remotely and must have the means to take over if its technology malfunctions, Bloomberg reported. (digitaltrends.com)

The safety of driverless cars will depend in part on policies adopted by federal, state, and local officials-just as speed limits help keep human drivers from inflicting carnage. (city-journal.org)

lt;p>Tesla says drivers using autopilot in any of its cars must acknowledge that the system "is an assist feature that requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times. (newschannel5.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A driver with a history of speeding who was so enamored of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car "Tessy" and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated "Autopilot" system has become the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode. (newschannel5.com)
Speed caps are being raised for the autopilot function in newer Tesla cars, from 55 mph to 80 mph, in the form of new software that the company has started streaming into its vehicles. (latimes.com)
Tesla cars have had Autopilot for years but new models began being fitted with an expanded set of sensor hardware last October. (latimes.com)
Musk has said a coast-to-coast demonstration of a driverless Tesla is in the works for later this year. (latimes.com)
At a think-tank gathering held before the Washington (D.C.) Auto Show in January, Talal Al Kaissi, a representative of the United Arab Emirates, got car wonks buzzing when he announced (perhaps jokingly) that he had set his Tesla to autopilot and let the car drive him to the conference, while he wrote his presentation. (city-journal.org)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been a big proponent of autonomous vehicles and suggested that one day it might be "illegal to drive a car," added McGregor. (technewsworld.com)
Thanks to Google, Tesla, and all the other manufacturers investing in a driverless tech, we might be looking at a dystopian future as disengaged blimp people who've lost all ambulatory function. (pcworld.com)
Car manufacturers such as Audi, Volvo, Tesla and Mercedes-Benz, along with technology pioneers including Google and Apple have already developed driverless cars that function as intended. (rias.co.uk)

Waymo, the driverless-car arm of Alphabet, took six years to complete its first 1 million driverless miles, which happened late last year. (city-journal.org)
Waymo's latest system, the Waymo Driver, includes a system of cameras, lidar and radar that help the car eliminate blind spots. (discovermagazine.com)
Waymo isn't the only one in the race to develop reliable driverless cars fit for public roads. (discovermagazine.com)
Its newest target has been the hundreds of driverless vehicles run by the companies Cruise and Waymo. (wqln.org)
Neither Cruise nor Waymo responded to questions about why the cars can be disabled by traffic cones. (kut.org)
Waymo says it has a permit for 250 cars and it deploys about 100 at any given time. (kut.org)

Instead, this is more about greasing the wheels once the feds have given the all-clear -- driverless vehicles should reach the road that much sooner. (engadget.com)
California's legislature set out in 2012 "to encourage the current and future development, testing, and operation of autonomous vehicles on the public roads of the state"-but now, the state is poised effectively to ban such cars from the roads and highways. (city-journal.org)
Google has already logged over 700,000 test miles on its driverless vehicles, but won't let the general public in them until they prove to be safer than human-driven cars. (spokesman.com)
Autopilot allows cars to pass vehicles automatically with a flick of the turn signal. (latimes.com)
The cars will stay in their lanes, turn around curves without driver intervention, and will pass vehicles automatically with a flick of the turn signal. (latimes.com)
D riverless cars and trucks-or autonomous vehicles (AV)-offer a tantalizing promise of safer and unclogged roadways. (city-journal.org)
Even as companies start deploying driverless cars on America's streets, no data exist yet on whether the vehicles are consistently safer than those with human drivers and, if so, under what circumstances. (city-journal.org)
Autonomous vehicles pose a particular challenge for dense cities like New York, which have always had an uneasy relationship with the automobile. (city-journal.org)
Following the directive, the Pentagon's Defense Research Projects Agency, DARPA, began holding contests for driverless vehicles, which would be raced by their private-sector and academic sponsors across the Nevada desert for prize money. (city-journal.org)
But motoring groups have warned that road users will be wary of the introduction of driverless vehicles. (coventrytelegraph.net)
Two areas of driverless technology will be covered in the review: cars with a qualified driver who can take over control of the driverless car and fully autonomous vehicles where there is no driver. (coventrytelegraph.net)
Mr Cable said: "The excellence of our scientists and engineers has established the UK as pioneers in the development of driverless vehicles through pilot projects. (coventrytelegraph.net)
We are determined to ensure driverless cars can fulfil this potential which is why we are actively reviewing regulatory obstacles to create the right framework for trialling these vehicles on British roads. (coventrytelegraph.net)
Roughly 43 per cent of adults surveyed said they were concerned about the problems that may arise from autonomous vehicles, as car manufacturers race to develop the new technology. (cityam.com)
And driverless vehicles seamlessly connected to smart infrastructure offer even greater promise still. (rmi.org)
Driverless cars can improve traffic flows by communicating with other vehicles and smart infrastructure, cutting down on commute times and air pollution created by personal vehicles. (brookings.edu)
According to West's paper, regulatory hurdles for driverless vehicles are numerous and revolve around collecting data for maps, testing cars on roads, and manufacturing restrictions-among other challenges. (brookings.edu)
It was an opaque reference until one of our writers suggested Virgilio Corrado was making a connection between driverless cars and the high-tech hover vehicles from the movie Wall-E . (pcworld.com)
It may take 20 or even 30 years, but when the big auto manufacturers have invested all their money and intellectual capital in the design of floaty chairs, there won't be any motivation to create human-driven, high-performance vehicles. (pcworld.com)
This book includes new research and economic analysis, plus a thorough review of the current literature to pose and attempt to answer a number of important questions about the effect that driverless vehicles may have on land use in the United States, especially on parking. (waterstones.com)
While the focus is on parking, the book also contains the views of real estate economists, architects, and policymakers and is essential reading for real estate developers and investors, transport economists, planners, politicians, and policymakers who need to consider the implications of a future with more driverless vehicles. (waterstones.com)
This work is a necessity for those who wish to have a more detailed examination of driverless vehicles and where driverless vehicle development is apparently heading at this time. (waterstones.com)
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles ( FCAU ) just partnered with autonomous vehicle tech company Aurora to launch self-driving commercial vehicles that will eventually be sold for autonomous vehicle package delivery services. (fool.com)
The pilot program's nine participants - including BlackBerry's QNX, Magna, Uber and the University of Waterloo - are currently testing 10 vehicles, but aren't yet using fully driverless ones. (cp24.com)
As driverless cars inch toward becoming regular sights on our streets, experts have started to warn that the connected cars could be vulnerable to hackers who can take control of the vehicles from a distance. (mentalfloss.com)
Driverless vehicles can intensify car use, reducing or even eliminating promised energy savings and environmental benefits in the near future, a study led by a University of Leeds researcher has warned. (daijiworld.com)
The types of technology that will be tested on Mcity roads includes vehicles communicating with other vehicles (V2V) and driverless cars. (michiganautolaw.com)
The cars are also designed to see around other vehicles while on the road, using a 360-degree, bird's-eye-view camera that can see up to 500 meters away. (discovermagazine.com)
CNN has christened the Google driverless car prototype "adorable" and other media have proclaimed the vehicle nearly road worthy, but customers won't be lining up to buy one at least until the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) comes up with safety rules. (allgov.com)
Nature conservationists and planners need to think hard about the impact of driverless vehicles, most notably in terms of renewed urban sprawl. (theconversation.com)
In parallel to this tireless development and testing of driverless cars, manufacturers have been introducing very welcome technological driving aids to their vehicles. (rias.co.uk)
Various cars, including some variants of the Volkswagen Golf are fitted with Adaptive Cruise Control 6 , which automatically maintains a safe distance between your vehicle and the one in front, and Volvo's Intellisafe 7 technologies keep equipped vehicles in the desired lane automatically, and can detect the difference between pedestrians and other objects. (rias.co.uk)
On February 1st 2016, Sajid Javid, Business Secretary, announced a £20million funding injection 8 for driverless vehicles, aligned to the government's Intelligent Mobility Fund, which includes developing autonomous shuttles to carry visually-impaired passengers. (rias.co.uk)
However, concerns about the fallibility of computers are likely to leave driverless vehicles in need of a human behind the wheel for the foreseeable future. (gjel.com)
The DMV is now in the difficult position of defining how safe driverless vehicles need to be, laying out guidelines for liability, and regulating a continuously evolving new technology. (gjel.com)
Many questions may still be unanswered over the fatality of an Arizona pedestrian after being hit by one of Uber's self-driving cars in March, but that hasn't stopped Ohio Governor John Kasich from issuing an executive order making it the latest state to allow the testing of such vehicles on its public roads. (digitaltrends.com)
In what must be one of the weirder stories linked to the development of autonomous vehicles, a fleet of Cruise self-driving cars gathered together at an intersection in San Francisco earlier this week, parked up, and blocked traffic for several hours. (digitaltrends.com)
CEO, David Keene explained: "Our pioneering work in developing the UK's first driverless vehicles has seen us attract significant media coverage around the world and this has led to lots of enquiries from organisations keen to be at the forefront of this technology. (themanufacturer.com)
Coventry used to be at the heart of the world's transport sector and we have a vision to put the City at the forefront again, making driverless vehicles a reality for everyone. (themanufacturer.com)
Argo AI's driverless test vehicles are now operating in Austin, Texas (above) and Miami. (axios.com)
The Department of Motor Vehicles made Cruise cut that number in half after one of its cars collided with a firetruck last week. (kut.org)
The report provides guidance for companies to help their workers stay safe on the road as technology advances, and to think ahead to what fully-automated vehicles - true "self-driving" cars - will mean for their fleet safety management practices. (cdc.gov)
Workers who drive company cars with ADAS may have personal vehicles with no automation at all, so it's important for them to understand what to expect from ADAS. (cdc.gov)

Today's announcement will see driverless cars take to our streets in less than six months, putting us at the forefront of this transformational technology and opening up new opportunities for our economy and society. (coventrytelegraph.net)
A future where sitting in the backseat of the car reading our newspaper while it drives us effortlessly through city streets and intersections is not that far away," said Stone. (ens-newswire.com)
Still, while it continues, the company insists it's taking the proper precautions to ensure the safety of the engineers that sit inside the robot cars as they navigate the streets, according to TechCrunch . (digitaltrends.com)
General Motors-backed Cruise revealed this week that its fully driverless cars have now traveled more than a million miles, mostly on the streets of San Francisco. (digitaltrends.com)
And finally today, in the near future, residents of Seattle may well be startled as they notice a fleet of new cars cruising down the city streets. (tpr.org)
Only employees can ride for now, and the cars are confined to specific streets and neighborhoods. (axios.com)
The group's goal is to incapacitate the driverless cars roaming San Francisco's streets as a protest against the city being used as a testing ground for this emerging technology. (kut.org)
At that time there was a huge opposition to closing streets to cars in the city, although all the research said the traffic would be better. (lu.se)

A self-driving Uber car has killed a pedestrian in Arizona in what is believed to be the first death involving an autonomous vehicle. (nzherald.co.nz)
Uber has suspended self-driving car tests as US authorities gather data about the circumstances surrounding the accident, which involved a car moving in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel. (nzherald.co.nz)

Guided by a system of sensors and cameras, the cars will, for the first time, be driven on public roads in a series of trials that will last between 18 and 36 months. (coventrytelegraph.net)
The fact that cars could do the driving in the future might make the roads safer, but that would require more of those cars on the road. (technewsworld.com)
As with any major technology, it will arrive via small advances, so don't look for a self-driving car to take the roads all of a sudden. (technewsworld.com)
Roads must have clearly defined lane markings and signage, while high-definition maps of road networks update cars on their precise location and changing road conditions. (brookings.edu)
First, if the entire commuting population traveled the roads in driverless cars, we'd probably all be safer. (pcworld.com)
TORONTO - Driverless cars are now allowed on Ontario roads. (cp24.com)
Google has developed a completely driver-free car , and a few Iowa counties will be the first in the United States to allow them on their roads, although it isn't clear how soon. (rasmussenreports.com)
The study uses analysis of self-driving technology combined with data on car and truck use, driver licences, and vehicle running costs to model the impact on energy demand of various levels of automation on US roads by 2050. (daijiworld.com)
Decades of research into advanced sensors, mapping, navigation and control methods have now come to fruition and autonomous cars are starting to hit the roads in pilot trials . (nzherald.co.nz)
Until quite recently, it was deemed unlikely that driverless cars would become a common sight on UK roads any time soon. (rias.co.uk)

The achievement comes just 15 months after the company's first fully driverless ride, during which time it also launched San Francisco's first paid driverless robotaxi service. (digitaltrends.com)

Google has been granted a patent for driverless car technology, which can fully take over the control of a vehicle from a human driver. (techradar.com)
Under the cover of "consumer protection," the DMV proposes to limit the rollout of autonomous technology by, among other things, barring its commercial use, precluding truly autonomous operation, and prohibiting private sale and ownership of self-driving cars. (city-journal.org)
While current automobile manufacturers and vehicle component suppliers are developing crucial elements of autonomous driving, they are not necessarily taking the lead in the future technology. (spokesman.com)
Though driverless technology is heading forward, certain aspects and supporting technologies affecting its eventual success remain in question. (spokesman.com)
Level 1 means that a car allows technology to take over for specific well-defined functions, which aren't critical to life and limb, such as parallel parking. (city-journal.org)
TNS) - The House appears close to reviving a debate over whether to regulate the driverless vehicle industry, but all of the concerns that torpedoed past efforts remain: Namely, how best to balance safety of new technology and the freedom to innovate. (governing.com)
Though a GOP-led House in 2017 passed by voice vote a bill aimed at creating a regulatory framework for the self-driving car industry, a Senate version of the bill died in 2018, largely over Democrats' concerns about the safety of the burgeoning technology. (governing.com)
But Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, warned that the technology is not fool-proof, and the government needs to impose basic performance standards to protect those in self-driving cars. (governing.com)
Ministers have also launched a review to look at current road regulations to establish how the UK can remain at the forefront of driverless car technology and ensure there is an appropriate regime for testing driverless cars in the UK. (coventrytelegraph.net)
This technology is a step toward greater automation but isn't a driverless vehicle. (technewsworld.com)
With much talk about driverless car technology lately, that begs a number of questions. (rmi.org)
The technology has the potential to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and traffic fatalities, yet driverless cars remain susceptible to bad weather conditions, digital hacking, and limited wireless spectrum. (brookings.edu)
The subject of driverless and even ownerless cars has the potential to be the most disruptive technology for real estate, land use, and parking since the invention of the elevator. (waterstones.com)
Lyft said in a blog post on Tuesday that while its cars were off the road earlier this year, its team had been able to continue its work developing the technology using simulation software that can create specific scenarios to test the driverless system. (digitaltrends.com)
However, new research suggests its actual impact may be complicated by how the technology changes our relationship with our cars. (daijiworld.com)
Fully autonomous cars are on their way and much of the important technology will be a standard feature of every car in the next few years. (nesta.org.uk)
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Mobileye has expanded its presence in the auto industry through tie-ups with Asian companies such as China's Baidu thanks to its strength in visual processors, a key field in the intensifying race to perfect driverless technology. (nikkei.com)
For retirees and other older drivers who sadly have to give up driving, significant strides in driverless vehicle technology may soon make it possible for them to retain their independence. (rias.co.uk)
The question of cost still exists, expensive technology meaning that when fully driverless cars debut on the retail market, their cost may initially be prohibitive, but the UK government is determined to accommodate greener, safer motoring as quickly as possible. (rias.co.uk)
Despite concerns over safety following the Arizona tragedy, Kaisch appears determined to push Ohio as a hub for driverless-vehicle technology and testing in the hope that it could lead to inward investment and job creation in the state. (digitaltrends.com)
Argo AI announced Tuesday that it has begun driverless testing operations in Miami and Austin, two of the eight cities in the U.S. and Germany where it is developing its AV technology. (axios.com)
AV developers put their own parameters on where and when their cars can operate safely, then they gradually expand those limits - geography, lighting conditions and weather, for example - as the technology improves and regulations allow. (axios.com)
All it takes to render the technology-packed self-driving car inoperable is a traffic cone. (kut.org)
The various driverless tractors are split into full autonomous technology and supervised autonomy. (wikipedia.org)
The technology for the driverless tractor has been evolving since its beginnings in the 1940s. (wikipedia.org)
Robots making decisions on social benefits, driverless cars causing traffic accidents, search engines presenting a selected narrow picture of the world - the rapid devel- opment of AI technology gives rise to machines that makes their own decisions, without direct influence from humans, but who is responsible for what a machine does? (lu.se)

KERR: Coning driverless cars has become a viral sensation in San Francisco. (wqln.org)
Coning driverless cars fits in line with a long history of protests against the impact of the tech industry on San Francisco. (kut.org)

Self-driving cars could reinvent how we travel, but the power demands these systems place on a vehicle are far from trivial. (extremetech.com)
We'll be able to see the results of modern motor vehicle manufacturing at the Spokane International Auto Show this year. (spokesman.com)
The vehicle is designed with four rotating seats facing inward in a "lounge" setting, reflecting what Mercedes-Benz developers believe customers will want from future luxury cars: a private, comfortable retreat where they can have face-to-face conversations. (spokesman.com)
Standard and Poor's predicts that driverless cars will make up a 2 percent to 30 percent share of vehicle sales by 2030. (city-journal.org)
The company says it can eliminate cases where a driverless vehicle may become confused or stuck by having a human take the wheel from a remote operations center. (autonews.com)
Self-driving cars have been granted their first ever London test routes in a major step forward for real-world driverless vehicle trials The testbed, which is a UK industry first, will consist of 26km of public road in Greenwich and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. (cityam.com)
Transportation Minister Jeff Yurek has announced that, as of Jan. 1, participants in Ontario's automated vehicle pilot program can test driverless cars on public roadways, under strict conditions. (cp24.com)
The idea of a car that relieves humans of having to take responsibility for the motor vehicle they're trying to operate while they have better things to do (like talk, text, and play video games on their Google-operated Android smartphones) while getting from Point A to Point B makes sense. (themarysue.com)
There is no doubt that vehicle automation offers several efficiency benefits, but if you can work, relax and even hold a meeting in your car, that changes how you use it," said lead study author Dr Zia Wadud, associate professor at the University of Leeds. (daijiworld.com)
Sweatman said he expects 20,000-30,000 V2V cars that communicate with one another - such as with a light to notify when a vehicle or object is too close - will be traveling the region within six to eight years. (michiganautolaw.com)
It will help the city craft plans for autonomous vehicle regulation and test the sensors that self-driving cars rely on. (nextcity.org)
Sensors are compressed into a domelike structure atop Waymo's latest cars and placed around the body of the vehicle to capture a full picture in real time, Ahn says. (discovermagazine.com)
In the UK, a driverless adaptation of Ford's Mondeo has been tested at the MIRA proving ground in the Midlands for some time, with Bristol, Milton Keynes, Coventry and London Greenwich being approved for autonomous vehicle testing 4 . (rias.co.uk)
As an example, Calo cites that a driverless vehicle could be programmed to avoid baby strollers and shopping carts, yet potentially misprioritize the two if put in a situation where it was simultaneously presented with both. (gjel.com)
A driverless tractor is an autonomous farm vehicle that delivers a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds for the purposes of tillage and other agricultural tasks. (wikipedia.org)

And there definitely won't be a 2056 version of the Alfa Romeo 4C , a car that can barely justify itself in 2016. (pcworld.com)

In fact, Lyft ( LYFT 0.71% ) and self-driving car tech company Aptiv (NYSE: APTV) completed 50,000 self-driving rides in Las Vegas earlier this year, taking Lyft rides to destinations throughout the city. (fool.com)
In addition, Lyft had started to offer rides to employees as part of its testing program, but while COVID-19 remains an issue, only engineers will ride inside the cars. (digitaltrends.com)
In Las Vegas, another AV developer, Motional, has been running its cars on the Lyft network (with safety drivers behind the wheel) for several years. (axios.com)

It's sort of like a cross between a first-class airline seat, a self-driving Google Car , and those airport sleeping pods where you can cocoon yourself in quiet remove from the meddling masses. (pcworld.com)
Both the Google car and the LUTZ pathfinder pods (pictured) use LiDAR as their primary sensors but need machine vision to see colour and recognise road signs. (nesta.org.uk)
RDM Group, which is heavily involved in the LUTZ and UK Autodrive projects, is currently in talks with shopping centres, airports and local authorities to supply driverless pods for transporting people and cargo. (themanufacturer.com)

ditto if you find you've unexpectedly had too much to drink-rather than call a taxi, a driverless car could take you home. (rmi.org)
In suburban Phoenix, you can hail a driverless taxi using Waymo's app. (axios.com)

Fully autonomous cars (such as 'driverless taxis') are even further away. (halfbakery.com)
Their aim is to one day deploy a fleet of driverless taxis. (tpr.org)
Driverless cars now roam San Francisco any time of day or night, picking up passengers like taxis. (wqln.org)
Running a private car is unarguably much more convenient than public transport, and for many motorists can even work out cheaper than regularly relying on taxis. (rias.co.uk)

Transport Minister Claire Perry said: "Driverless cars have huge potential to transform the UK's transport network. (coventrytelegraph.net)

It plans to launch a fully driverless service in Las Vegas in 2023, with other cities to follow. (axios.com)

There's not much to debate about the value of those safety features, which explains why the Fed and 20 major carmakers agreed to fast-track automatic emergency braking as a production standard for virtually all cars by 2022 - a historic move bypassing standard regulatory processes. (medium.com)

Waymo's new system cuts the cost of its sensors in half, which the company says will accelerate development and help it collaborate with more car manufacturers to put more test cars on the road. (discovermagazine.com)

UNIDENTIFIED NEWS ANCHOR #1: Protesters in San Francisco are trying to stop self-driving cars from expanding. (wqln.org)

Cars that drive themselves could reduce crashes to a small fraction of today's totals, while moving people about more efficiently, in larger groups and at faster speeds. (city-journal.org)
Sensors, already deployed in today's cars, are used to create 3D maps of the surroundings while the computer uses preprogrammed responses to events real and predictable for operation of the car. (allgov.com)
Yet, all those features and many more can be found in today's cars, for the same reason we have any organized regulation or law in the world: individuals can't be trusted to ensure the safety and security of the whole. (medium.com)

It's about remotely helping driverless cars to deal with the rare situations they don't understand. (halfbakery.com)
Phantom Auto's system lets a human remotely take the wheel when a self-driving car can't figure out its next move. (autonews.com)

poor visibility, inclement weather and difficulty distinguishing a parked car from a pedestrian, to name a few. (discovermagazine.com)
The sensors can detect an open car door a block away or gauge the direction a pedestrian is facing. (discovermagazine.com)

Trials are underway around the world to test driverless cars and how the world around them will react. (nesta.org.uk)

Only recently the encounter between two driverless cars made headline news simply because it sounded as if one had interfered with the others maneuvers. (i-programmer.info)

Suddenly cars will do the right thing and potentially have reaction times that are not characteristic of humans. (i-programmer.info)
And then, many cars started operating with no humans at all. (kut.org)

Graffitied road sign that the car can't make sense of? (halfbakery.com)
While Google embraces those factors to make its autonomous cars operate successfully, mainstream manufacturers have somewhat more apprehension. (spokesman.com)
One car was about to make a lane change when the other driverless car beat it too it. (i-programmer.info)
AUSTIN, Texas , August 27, 2015 (ENS) - The self-driving cars of the future will make "reservations" to cross intersections, if a system under development at the University of Texas, Austin is adopted by the U.S. Department of Transportation. (ens-newswire.com)
It occurred to Wilcox that artificial intelligence could make traffic collisions a thing of the past, which means "we don't need the protection systems that are built into contemporary cars", he told design magazine Dezeen . (newscientist.com)
Teaching a car to use humanlike discretion, such as judging when it's safe to make a left-hand turn amid oncoming traffic, is more difficult than building the physical sensors it uses to see. (discovermagazine.com)
However, the reduced transport times offered by driverless cars make it easier to live outside the belt while still working inside. (theconversation.com)

A more-than-subtle hint of that future occurred this month when Mercedes-Benz unveiled a concept car illustrating its version of luxury in 2030, a time when drivers would purportedly hand over control to a network of computers and sensors, using their onboard time for work, play or rest. (spokesman.com)
They're highly compatible with car-sharing programs (more on that in a future post). (rmi.org)
What does the future of driverless cars look like? (tpr.org)
Is There A Driverless Car in Your Future? (rasmussenreports.com)
So driverless cars promise a future of faster journey times with much reduced environmental impacts. (theconversation.com)
However, the solutions designed by planners have been calibrated for a human-driving automotive system - not for the supercharged future of driverless transport. (theconversation.com)
That's not a future you want to be handcuffed to, but that's what's in store as safety features improve… and that's what traditional car manufacturers are gunning for. (medium.com)

Drivers can have their cars remain in their lane, brake as needed, and even change lanes at the press of a button. (extremetech.com)

Researchers developed a model to predict what would happen as self-driving cars were attacked. (extremetech.com)
A pair of researchers have identified the most potent security threats to self-driving cars and offered possible solutions. (extremetech.com)
Researchers from across the U.S. recently figured out how to trick a driverless car with a set of stickers, as they detail in a paper posted on arXiv.org . (mentalfloss.com)

One solution, potentially, is to have an autonomous car that can communicate with a human driver (specifically, a monitoring centre with multiple people) on the rare occasions that it needs to. (halfbakery.com)
The car stops when it encounters a situation it doesn't understand and, within a few seconds, a human can intervene via the car's onboard cameras and sensors. (halfbakery.com)
Based on the current performance of 'supervised' autonomous cars, intervention would be needed only very rarely and you might only need one human per thousand driverless cars. (halfbakery.com)
The idea of cars or trucks operating without steering wheels or human drivers is exciting to entrepreneurs and commuters. (city-journal.org)
Human drivers are warned to pay attention, and the system will send warnings if hands aren't placed on the steering wheel periodically, and the car will slow down and stop if the human fails to comply. (latimes.com)
In a Level 2 car, partial automation lets a human operator relinquish more important functions, like steering and braking, but the driver must monitor the environment. (city-journal.org)
Is this proof that the driverless car really is up to the job or a scary suggestion that there might be more human silliness it has yet to encounter? (i-programmer.info)
When driverless cars first start to be used the biggest danger is still going to be the error-prone human driver. (i-programmer.info)
As a result driverless cars are going to have to predict what might happen with a particular set of parameters that assume a human response time and a human tendency not to do the right thing. (i-programmer.info)
At CES in 2017, Nissan Motor Co. said it developed, in collaboration with NASA, a system known as Seamless Autonomous Mobility that calls on human help centers when self-driving cars encounter unforeseen situations. (autonews.com)
And with a human behind the remote controls, the ride felt much more natural compared with the rigidly rule-following self-driving cars. (autonews.com)
But what if driverless cars-by being able to safely maintain much closer following distances in platoons than human drivers-could actually increase the speed of peak efficiency? (rmi.org)
The computer algorithms that pilot self-driving cars may soon be considered the functional equivalents of human drivers. (pcworld.com)
But when self-driving cars start making us dumber, and less alert, and less involved with transportation in a tactile, human way, then I have to sound the alarm. (pcworld.com)
Sure, there will still be cars designed for human pilots. (pcworld.com)
These companies are making huge strides in creating a world where we can hop into a car, tell it where to take us, and safely arrive -- with no human input needed. (fool.com)
They found that by creating a mask to cover the sign that looks almost identical to the sign itself (so a human wouldn't necessarily notice the difference), they could fool a road-sign classifier like those used by driverless cars into misreading the sign 100 percent of the time. (mentalfloss.com)
FOLKENFLIK: Based on your research, how would you characterize the environmental impacts of these self-driving cars versus, you know, prototypical human-driven counterparts? (tpr.org)
The author is a car driving human from Long island. (themarysue.com)
In conventional (human-driven) cars, the answer is simple: the driver is responsible because they are in control. (nzherald.co.nz)
With driverless cars, most crashes caused by human error will be no longer. (michiganautolaw.com)
It is considered driverless because it operates without the presence of a human inside the tractor itself. (wikipedia.org)

They examined how fiddling with the appearance of stop signs could redirect a driverless car, tricking its sensors and cameras into thinking that a stop sign is actually a speed limit sign for a 45 mile-per-hour zone, for instance. (mentalfloss.com)

In one test, a car encountered a woman in a wheelchair chasing a duck while wielding a broom. (spokesman.com)
During a test ride around Phantom's Silicon Valley offices last week, the car was able to smoothly complete a drive around the block without any intervention on the driving controls in the car. (autonews.com)
FOLKENFLIK: That's a local news anchor commenting on Amazon's autonomous car unit, Zoox, which will soon start test driving downtown there. (tpr.org)
MCity, the world's first controlled test center for self-driving, cars opened last week on a 32-acre site on the University of Michigan's north campus. (michiganautolaw.com)

A Level 0 car is an old-fashioned car, without automation. (city-journal.org)
A Level 3 car has "conditional automation," meaning that the driver doesn't have to monitor the environment but must take over quickly if the car asks him to. (city-journal.org)
The driverless tractor is part of a move to increase automation in farming. (wikipedia.org)

Advocates for these cars say they'll solve a ton of problems, like reducing collisions and carbon emissions. (tpr.org)

amp;nbsp;that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a fatal crash involving a Model S car. (newschannel5.com)
Between traffic cones, double-parked cars and the lunch stand, the car's computer could not figure out its next move. (autonews.com)
Urban traffic is further reduced by cars that can park themselves: the economist Donald Shoup estimates that 30 percent of traffic in metropolitan areas results from drivers looking for parking. (brookings.edu)
Driverless cars will also need adequate wireless spectrum to communicate with each other and with smart traffic signals, as well as cybersecurity protections to prevent the hacking of these systems. (brookings.edu)
The world's driving infrastructures-our roadways, our traffic laws, our insurance rates, our very philosophical positions on driving-will have left car culture as we know it behind. (pcworld.com)
Companies such as Zoox claim these driverless cars will improve traffic and mobility in urban areas like Seattle. (tpr.org)
The software within the car uses all sorts of tools, ranging from a set of short-range radar sensors and video cameras to a persistent Internet connection that constantly scans Google Maps for road and traffic updates. (themarysue.com)
Cameras, meanwhile, provide the contrast and detail necessary for a car to read street signs and traffic lights. (discovermagazine.com)
Through minimising traffic jams , driverless cars may also reduce overall energy use. (theconversation.com)
And one of these self-driving cars worth billions of dollars of venture capital investment money and R&D just being disabled by a common traffic cone. (wqln.org)
KERR: A Cruise spokesperson told NPR that intentionally obstructing the driverless cars, quote, "risks creating traffic congestion. (wqln.org)
Although with many experts conceding, "there's much work still to be done before driverless cars are proved irrefutably safe and reliable in traffic," it could be a while before driverless cars are available to the public. (gjel.com)

There's a memorable scene in Days of Thunder when a young Tom Cruise teaches Nicole Kidman the concept of drafting: "When one car tucks in behind another, two cars go faster than one. (rmi.org)
Members of Safe Street Rebel place a cone on a self-driving Cruise car in San Francisco. (kut.org)

Though the rules won't be finalized before the end of the year, the news so far isn't good-for the cars. (city-journal.org)
You stumble across the latest in a long line of news articles lauding self-driving cars and the many riches they promise to bring. (medium.com)

The state DMV has modified its regulations to streamline the testing and use of fully autonomous cars (that is, ones that don't need anyone behind the wheel). (engadget.com)
This is the challenge before we reach fully autonomous cars and will require better communication and understanding from both the car and the driver. (nesta.org.uk)

What is more, Chris Urmson thinks that we have already proved that driverless cars are far, far more reliable than even the best driver. (i-programmer.info)

The DMV is adamant that it's not trying to override federal efforts to regulate self-driving cars. (engadget.com)

There's one in 2018 where one of Uber's autonomous cars struck and killed a woman in Arizona. (tpr.org)

Individual driverless cars come with important opportunities for increased efficiency. (rmi.org)
But it's the very efficiency of driverless cars that poses a challenge for planners and conservationists. (theconversation.com)

lt;p>For the first time ever, a car driving with autopilot was involved in a deadly crash. (newschannel5.com)
The software update, called Autopilot 8.1, lets the cars pretty much drive themselves on highways up to the posted speed limit, or a maximum of 80. (latimes.com)
The 55 mph Autopilot speed cap was placed on those cars, which Autopilot 8.1 lifts with its updates that started rolling out on Wednesday. (latimes.com)

The World Economic Forum predicts that driverless cars will generate an additional $67 billion in auto industry revenue while providing $3.1 trillion in societal benefits. (brookings.edu)

We propose a blockchain-based framework that uses sensor data to ascertain liability in accidents involving self-driving cars. (nzherald.co.nz)
More than 30,000 people died in auto accidents 2013, the NHTSA says. (michiganautolaw.com)
The typical accidents resulting from distracted driving, following too close, failing to signal, or driving recklessly should all be avoidable with driverless cars. (gjel.com)

Car makers no longer need to notify local officials of the 'operational design domain' of their machines, summarize all the instances when a car's autonomous driving disengages or certify that a car can't drive itself in commonly restricted conditions. (engadget.com)
If they knew the algorithm of the car's visual system, they would just need a printer or some stickers to fool the car. (mentalfloss.com)

For example, even seemingly minor details a car might encounter in urban and suburban settings have been incorporated into Mcity, like road signs defaced by graffiti and faded lane markings, according to published reports. (michiganautolaw.com)

The very same Google maps that we use to figure out directions will be used to navigate a car in real time that takes us down a non-existent road once in a while. (themarysue.com)
Gosh, I do hope Google keeps their maps updated every second of the day so a driverless car doesn't fling itself off of a cliff it didn't know was there. (themarysue.com)
At least in my dream world of flying cars, which doesn't exist in real life, because the smartypants people at Google are too busy building a driverless car. (themarysue.com)
It caught the attention of Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who convened a team of engineers to buy cars from dealership lots and retrofit them with off-the-shelf sensors. (discovermagazine.com)
In 2015, Google completed its first driverless trip on a public road. (discovermagazine.com)
Google issued a statement this week saying, "Self-driving cars have the potential to significantly increase driving safety. (gjel.com)

We can't get you the last 40 percent [of self-driving car deployment], but we can get you the last 2 percent. (autonews.com)

From the driver's side they will need to trust the autonomous functions of the car which may require a greater level of transparency in how it operates and what it is about to do next. (nesta.org.uk)

And while hypermiling is often derided as "a fun way to drive slow," driverless cars-via connected autonomy-could actually enable us to get places faster while still maintaining hypermile-like fuel economy. (rmi.org)
Driverless cars would also enhance personal mobility in countries with aging populations that can no longer drive by themselves. (brookings.edu)
These cars won't be designed and manufactured, because (a) too few people will know how to drive them, and (b) there won't be any business case to keep iterating on an obsolete format. (pcworld.com)
Think of a driverless car as one big mobile recording device that sees everything, with a 360 degree view, and keeps all of its recordings for … some indeterminate period of time, likely related to the size of the drive in the car. (investmentwatchblog.com)
Should Your Car Decide If You Can Drive? (technovelgy.com)
A car got a drivers license before we even got to drive a flying car. (themarysue.com)
Drive my car? (rasmussenreports.com)
But making the cars drive on their own wasn't a simple task. (discovermagazine.com)
Tackling the current issue of limited battery range and tedious charging times at home or using public charge points, Mr Letwin mooted the possibility that road networks will be upgraded, to charge cars as they drive along, like a Scalextric track. (rias.co.uk)

There were no major advances in driverless tractor technologies until 1994, when engineers at the Silsoe Research Institute developed the picture analysis system, which was used to guide a small driverless tractor designed for vegetable and root crops. (wikipedia.org)

Evolving laws at the state level will also dictate when people will be able to buy such cars and read a book or watch TV while the robot does the driving. (latimes.com)
We've sent people into space, built driverless cars, and engineered robots that can think like us. (cityam.com)
The question of how emerging transport technologies changes cities, especially land use, centers on the transition from an ownership to a sharing economy, and the switch from devoting space to storing cars to space for people. (waterstones.com)
Old people began to cross the continent in their own cars. (technovelgy.com)
Young people found the driverless car admirable for petting. (technovelgy.com)
FOLKENFLIK: When this conversation was first suggested by one of my colleagues, what came to mind first was a string of past incidents in which driverless cars caused real-life harm to real people, to pedestrians in particular. (tpr.org)
If people knew they could fly their cars, that would be so much more awesome, they wouldn't feel compelled to be on their phones while driving - ahem, flying - and that particular kind of accident would happen that much less. (themarysue.com)
It estimates a five percent to 60 percent increase in car energy consumption due to people choosing to use highly automated cars in situations where they would have previously taken alternative transport. (daijiworld.com)
Knowing, or at least trusting, the machine will be able to accurately recognise people on the road and react in the right way is vital for people to use driverless cars. (nesta.org.uk)
We thought that putting cones on these [driverless cars] was a funny image that could captivate people," says one organizer. (kut.org)
This changed the way people thought about cars in the city of Melbourne. (lu.se)

The argument about driver assistance not being the step-by-step way to get to a fully driverless car seems to be reasonable, but there are still some concerns about going straight to the best solution. (i-programmer.info)
Driverless tractors were initially created to follow a main tractor (with a driver). (wikipedia.org)

Want to program a self-driving car? (extremetech.com)
I wondered if any self- driving car could EVER manage that situation. (halfbakery.com)
Europe's biggest car manufacturer has shifted its fight against Silicon Valley's nascent self-driving car industry up a gear. (cityam.com)
But partial or full autonomy raises the question of who is to blame in the case of an accident involving a self-driving car? (nzherald.co.nz)
A self-driving car that can't see past it might wait patiently for it to move, causing a jam. (discovermagazine.com)

University of Texas computer science professor Peter Stone rides in Marvin, the autonomous car he and his students designed. (ens-newswire.com)
Self-driving cars are now tooling around in a growing number of cities - even giving rides to the public, in some instances - but it'll be years before summoning a robotaxi is routine. (axios.com)

These assists (lane departure warning, adaptive braking, et cetera), making steady incursion into even standard models, are key components of driverless cars, which are undergoing rapid research and development. (spokesman.com)
And it's a game changer for the rapid development of autonomous cars. (michiganautolaw.com)
State legislation passed in 2012, which got the ball rolling for driverless-car development, required that DMV come up with guidelines for road testing and rules for gaining various certifications, including one for safety, before sales commence. (allgov.com)

A few days later, David Cameron's policy guru, Oliver Letwin, revealed plans for the UK to become the leader in the electric and driverless car revolution 9 . (rias.co.uk)

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