WASHINGTON — With states seizing the initiative on shaping the future of self-driving cars, General Motors is trying to persuade legislators across the country to approve rules that would benefit the automaker while potentially keeping its competitors off the road. The carmaker denies trying to freeze out other brands, but legislators in four states say [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is bringing a small number of self-driving cars to its ride-hailing service in San Francisco — a move likely to excite the city’s tech-savvy population and certain to antagonize California regulators. This week’s launch in Uber’s hometown expands a public pilot program the company started in Pittsburgh in September. The testing [...]
Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living. “I am in Pittsburgh; it’s a test market for Uber’s autonomous vehicle,” says De Feo, CEO of the industrial materials firm Kennametal. “We see all these (automated) Ubers [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration officials are previewing long-awaited guidance that attempts to bring self-driving cars to the nation’s roadways safely — without creating so many roadblocks that the technology can’t make it to market quickly. Traditional automakers and tech companies have been testing self-driving prototypes on public roads for several years, with a human [...]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Taylor Pollier got an offer from Uber he couldn’t refuse — to be part of an experiment with a car of the future. Uber on Wednesday became the first company to make self-driving cars available to the general public in the U.S. through a test program in Pittsburgh. The ride-hailing service selected [...]
SINGAPORE — The world’s first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore last week. Select members of the public may hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Ride-hailing service Uber says it will start hauling passengers with self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh in next several weeks. The company says its autonomous Ford Fusions will have human backup drivers but will transport passengers just like normal Uber vehicles. Uber has a self-driving research lab in Pittsburgh and is [...]
WASHINGTON — Experts say the development of self-driving cars over the coming decade depends on an unreliable assumption by many automakers: that the humans in them will be ready to step in and take control if the car’s systems fail. Instead, experience with automation in other modes of transportation like aviation and rail suggests that [...]
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — Self-driving cars may be all the rage, but when it’s a real product, coming soon from Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co., the technology gets toned down. And so don’t expect to the driver to disappear for years to come. The Serena minivan equipped with ProPilot technology relies on a single camera [...]