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It took Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo seven years to design and build a laser-scanning system to guide its self-driving cars. Uber Technologies Inc. allege... (2017)
TechCrunch, 2017: “A driverless shuttle set free in downtown Las Vegas was involved in a minor accident less than an hour after it hit the streets... (2017)
New York Times, 2017: “Its very name was synonymous with the 20th-century economy. Now it’s trying to catch up with Silicon Valley on self-driving... (2017)
AutoNews, 2017, Bob Lutz: "This article will be included in “Redesigning the Industry,” a five-part Automotive News series exploring the future of... (2017)
Sophomore Ravi Krishna discusses how the project teaches students about machine- and deep-learning technologies...For the most part, I’m self-taugh... (2017)
Science Magazine, 2016: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils, such a... (2016)
2017: Self-driving cars are a lot closer to reality than most people think. Auto makers are promising cars that won't need a human driver behind th... (2017)
Bloomberg 2017: "A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups. A decade later, the competitors are struggling to perfec... (2017)
Aeye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in pass... (2021)
Rivian has raised $2.65 billion as it prepares to begin production this summer of its all-electric pickup truck. The round, which was led by funds ... (2021)
Uber will sell its self-driving car business to Aurora Innovation, a startup founded by the former head engineer of Google’s pioneering autonomous ... (2020)
Eighteen months ago, Uber’s self-driving car unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment ... (2020)
The Google sister company is the first to offer a commercial ride-hailing service in cars with empty front seats. (2020)
Waymo Adds $750 Million to War Chest as Driverless Cars Prove Tough to Deploy Waymo has raised another $750 million, pushing the total outside... (2020)
Meet Bryan Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving. (2020)
Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from SoftBank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a ... (2020)
GM said Monday it will invest $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs as well as a self-driv... (2020)
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (2019)
The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. (2019)
Ghost claims its aftermarket kit -- which will be available in 2020 -- can safely give existing cars self-driving capabilities. (2019)
Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedes... (2019)
Coursera is partnering with the University of Toronto to launch a Self-Driving Cars specialization, which it claims is the first of its kind. (2019)
Caroline Lester on a game called “Moral Machine,” and an effort to determine what driverless cars should do if faced with a version of the trolley ... (2019)
Swedish startup Mapillary is compiling a huge database of roadside objects such as signs and markings to help driverless vehicles get around. (2019)
As Waymo launches its robocar service, we hit the ground to see how the Phoenix suburb is handling the new tech. (2018)
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education Working Partnerships USA (2018)
New investment will support pilot projects in Detroit; Long Beach, California; Miami; San Jose, California; and Pittsburgh (2018)
Toyota is investing $500 million into Uber. Under the agreement, Toyota vehicles will be equipped with Uber’s self-driving technology, an unnamed s... (2018)
In advance of the launch of its commercial ride-hailing service later this year, Waymo shared exclusive details with The Verge about the work that ... (2018)
Uber is shuttering its self-driving trucks unit, a beleaguered program borne out of the company’s controversial multi-million acquisition of Otto n... (2018)
Ford invested $1 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI in 2017, and Volkswagen joined with a $2.6 billion investment 2 years later. It was an att... (2023)
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we... (2018)
a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)
Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)