Tag: SelfDriving
Apple car delayed to 2026, with self-driving ambitions scaled back
Apple has scaled back ambitious self-driving plans for its future electric vehicle and postponed the car’s target launch date by about a year to 2026, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The car project, dubbed Titan inside the company, has been in limbo for the past several months as Apple executives grappled with
Honda developing advanced Level 3 self-driving technology
TOKYO — Honda said it is developing Level 3 self-driving capability to function at any speed below legal limits on highways by the second half of the 2020s as it strives to eliminate traffic deaths involving its vehicles. Honda in March 2021 became the world’s first carmaker to sell a vehicle with Level 3 self-driving technology,
Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe over self-driving claims
Tesla is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said. The U.S. Department of Justice launched the previously undisclosed probe last year following more than a dozen crashes, some of them fatal, involving Tesla’s driver assistance system Autopilot, which
Ford, GM self-driving vehicle exemption petitions opposed
WASHINGTON — A coalition of 92 major cities and transit agencies is urging NHTSA to deny separate requests from Ford Motor Co. and General Motors to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles without certain human controls or functions on U.S. roads. In comments submitted to the agency Wednesday, the National Association of City Transportation
Ralph Nader attacks Tesla for ‘malfunctioning’ self-driving car technology
The man who forever changed vehicle safety standards in the U.S. has a scathing new message for Elon Musk and Tesla’s self-driving car technology: He thinks it’s dangerous, and regulators should get involved. Musk has been touting self-driving cars as the next big thing for years, saying in 2015 that autonomous vehicles would be on
With autonomous vehicle caucus, Congress members aim to advance technology for self-driving cars
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Want to address the recent surge in traffic deaths and improve traffic flow in a smart city? Self-driving cars could help with that, said U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio. Latta and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., formed
Self-Driving Car Tech Forgotten by Automakers Is Still Kept Alive by Federal Agency
Graphic: NHTSA There was a time when the answer to how to make self-driving cars work was to design a singular technology that would allow every vehicle on the road to communicate with everything — other cars, pieces of infrastructure, signs, police alerts, you name it. You don’t hear much about vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-everything
Self-driving tech company says a sale to Apple or Microsoft is possible
Aurora Innovation Inc.’s chief executive officer recently laid out a range of options for the self-driving company to respond to worsening market conditions and partners pushing out timelines, including a possible sale to Apple Inc. or Microsoft Corp., according to a document seen by Bloomberg. Chris Urmson, who co-founded Aurora after running Google’s self-driving car