After years of false promises and blown deadlines, Elon Musk has finally unveiled Tesla’s new electric vehicle dedicated to self-driving, the Cybercab.
Video and data from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes, analysed by the Wall Street Journal, expose a chilling reality about the technology.
Elon Musk has described the ‘Smart Summon’ in Tesla cars as the company’s “most viral feature ever”. True, but not always in the way the company would like.
The technology on display during Friday’s Indy Autonomous Challenge at the annual CES technology conference was quite something.
The reviewer is forced to interrupt the car’s decisions on a number of occasions when it tried to careen him into trucks, sidewalk fences, and the wrong side of the road.
Tesla has started sending out software updates for its long-awaited “Full Self-Driving” beta version 9, and CEO Elon Musk has warned drivers to “please be paranoid”.
Yet another driver has been busted sleeping behind the wheel of his Tesla, and fellow road users aren’t happy about it.
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Tesla really wants people to stop sleeping in their self-driving cars, but the viral videos just keep on coming.
Seth Blake, a guitarist for the band Wage War, filmed a video that has attracted a great deal of attention, showing a Tesla driver looking very mellow.
In a world of self-driving cars, the thing at the top of everyone’s mind is safety. This video of a crash involving an autonomous bus won’t help.
One day all transport will most likely be autonomous and drivers will be obsolete, but until then we will just have to watch the slow progress being made.
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Uber has just released its pilot self-driving cars onto the roads of one city in the USA, and things are slowing taking shape.
Some folks like to chat to their Uber driver, others like to sit in silence until they arrive. If you’re the latter, this could spell great things ahead.
After our countless articles on the evolving safety features of self-driving cars, the first fatality has been reported.
It might not be all that long until you’re being ferried around driver free, Uber set to test their latest technology out over in the U.S.
Surely removing the human element from driving makes the roads safer, right? Perhaps we might want to look a little deeper before making those assumptions.
When trucks take on a platooning formation they save fuel and costs – but when they employ an autonomous driving software it’s a game changer.
Google have some pretty impressive things lined up, with this in particular set to be a real game changer. Technology never ceases to amaze.
When a car comes with an ‘autopilot’ function you’d expect to be steered in the right direction, although Tesla still have some work to do.
Part of the appeal of the self-driving car, other than the fact you can sit in the back and do absolutely nothing, is the safety aspect. But are they really safer than human drivers?
Anyone who has ever driven long-distance has wished that they could hand over the reins to some kind of automated system. That day is upon us.
It seems Apple are about to dip their toes into some new territory, and of course Apple fans the world over are salivating from the mouth at the prospect.
We have already had a look at some of the really cool things that have come out of 2013’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but here is a more comprehensive list of some of the coolest things.
It seems that most of the larger car manufacturers are keen to follow in the footsteps of Google and launch their own self-driving cars. Toyota has just joined that party.
It’s not just Google who are looking to have us all driving around in self-driving cars – Volvo is also gearing up for production and release of their own fleet of self-driving vehicles.
Autonomous cars are soon to become even more commonplace in the United Sates, of America. Californian legislators have sent a bill to the governor’s desk that should push forward the development of autonomous cars in the Golden State.
Hey there, science fiction. Defence contractor, Pegasus Global Holdings is building a replica of Rock Hill, a South Carolina city, in the middle of the New Mexico desert as a testing ground for futuristic infrastructures – self-driving cars, green buildings and next-generation Wi-Fi. It’ll be an uninhabited laboratory – they’re calling it “an amusement park for scientists.”
Last month we told you about Nevada legalising self-driving cars. But how do they work exactly? Check out this video of Google’s self-driving Toyota Prius being “driven” by a guy that is 95% blind.