Technology/Autonomous Vehicles

Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled what he said was a robotaxi capable of self-driving, predicting it would be available by 2027—about a decade after he first promised an autonomous vehicle. The Tesla CEO said the fully electric car, which has no steering wheel or pedals, would be priced under $30,000 …

Systems that enable hands-free driving on the highway continue to suffer from a number of flaws and shortcomings, as we wrote about last week following two new studies published by the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Ford ’s BlueCruise is obviously part of the list. While Consumer Reports …

Self-driving technology is clearly not advancing as fast as many of its advocates would like, and there’s still plenty of work to do and legal issues to solve. Another incident in recent weeks made that clear again. Police in Phoenix, Arizona pulled over a driverless Jaguar I-Pace operated by Waymo …

British Columbia has updated its Motor Vehicle Act to promote cleaner and active transportation and enhance safety for vulnerable road users, including cyclists and pedestrians. The changes came into effect April 5. In particular, the regulations bring into force a prohibition against operation of fully automated self-driving vehicles (level 3 …

I recently took a couple of weeks off from my work here at The Car Guide and paid a visit to a childhood friend of mine who now lives in San Francisco. He took me to a number of must-see locations including Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. One time, …

Automakers aren’t the only ones trying to reimagine urban mobility. Bridging the gap between cars and gyropods, here’s a one-of-a-kind vehicle called SHANE that impresses in many ways beyond the fact it appears to come straight out of a Blade Runner movie. It’s the brainchild of Shane Chen, who is …

You may have heard of tire-deflating SUV haters , but now there are people waging war against another type of vehicle: self-driving cars. In San Francisco, where Waymo (Alphabet) and Cruise (General Motors) are testing their autonomous prototypes on public roads, a group of irate citizens called Safe Street Rebel …

U.S. auto safety regulators have demanded additional information about Tesla 's Autopilot, threatening civil penalties on the automaker for inadequate response, according to a document request reviewed Thursday by AFP. The July 3 information request from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seeks more details about Tesla's modifications to …

German auto giant Volkswagen said Thursday it will start testing self-driving vehicles in Texas this month, and plans a commercial launch in the state in 2026. Ten ID. Buzz electric minivans will be used in the trials in the state's capital, Austin, the automaker's first autonomous driving test program in …

Tesla is set to realize fully autonomous vehicles “later this year”, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, in the billionaire’s latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone. “In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision,” Musk said via …