Technology/Autonomous Vehicles

With no one in the driver seat, the SUV pulling up resembles an autonomous robotaxi like those becoming increasingly present in some cities, but the car from German startup Vay is something else. One of a number of emerging players aiming to disrupt road transportation, the seven-year-old company is built …

General Motors on Tuesday said it will no longer fund Cruise’s robotaxi development work and intends to combine Cruise engineers with its own technical teams Citing “the considerable time and resources that would be needed to scale the business, along with an increasingly competitive robotaxi market” (more than $10 billion …

Today is Remembrance Day, but it’s likely that many of you have forgotten about Project Arrow . Named after the Canadian-made Avro Arrow interceptor aircraft from the 1950s, this all-electric SUV concept with autonomous driving capabilities is a collaboration between nearly 60 different companies in Canada and led by the …

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 …