The U.S. House today unanimously approved a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls and bar states from blocking autonomous vehicles.The bill now goes to the Senate and would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy...
Autonomous Vehicles
New California Regs to Allow Vehicle Testing Sans Driver
Yesterday California's DMV published a revised set of draft regulations to govern the testing of driverless cars-or autonomous vehicles if you prefer. This set of regulations allows something the previous set did not: the testing of cars without a driver inside. The...
Driverless Car Coalition to Push Feds for Regs
Google's self-driving car division has formed a coalition with automakers and ride-share companies to push the federal government to adopt a uniform set of laws governing autonomous vehicles. The group includes Google, Lyft, Uber, Ford and Volvo.David Strickland, the...
Google Seeks Special Driverless Car Agency
Instead of waiting for new regulations that will make way for self-driving cars on US roads, Google wants the government to create a new Federal-level authority that could review the company's self-driving cars and give it special permissions for deployment.Google's...
Driverless Cars Clear Major U.S. Hurdle
Reuters is reporting that U.S. regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concluded that the artificial intelligence behind autonomous vehicles may be considered a "driver" for purposes of United States law. In a letter to Google from...
Obama Proposes $4B for Driverless Cars
Yesterday the Obama administration proposed spending almost $4 billion to speed the development of autonomous vehicles. The proposal, which requires Congressional approval, would fund regulatory efforts to have officials work with automakers to come up with...
Driverless Cars Must Deal With Motorists
Driverless cars must deal with motorists, and it's proving more difficult than expected. The New York Times reported this week one surprising problem encountered by Google's autonomous vehicle project: the difficulty of interacting with human drivers. Apparently the...
Apple’s Driverless Car Confirmed
Apple's driverless car project, code-named Titan, has long been a rumor in Silicon Valley. Last week The Guardian reported that documents confirmed the project's existence.In May, engineers from Apple's secretive Special Project group met with representatives of...
Economist Sees a World of Driverless Cars
There's an interesting piece in The Economist's Science & Technology section predicting a life where autonomous cars rule the roads. Most of the predictions have been made before, but there are some new statistical projections, including the reduction of urban...
Driverless Cars to Cost Cities Millions
Kevin C Desouza posted an interesting piece on Salon yesterday, positing a surprising financial consequence to cities and counties when driverless cars go mainstream. Desouza, an associate dean for research and professor at Arizona State University's College of Public...
