The advent of self-driving cars promises a future where transportation is more efficient and less reliant on human input. Yet, despite the technological advancements, significant safety concerns ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by prominent figures and their respective fanbases about what the right sensor ...

Outside my door in Austin, Texas, a portentous transportation choice is playing out. One path points to a light-rail system that’s been in the works for a quarter of a century and hasn’t broken ground ...

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A Waymo car drives up a hill in San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. We may soon see the driverless cars in Dallas. Jeff Chiu / AP Next year, as you drive around Dallas, you might turn to look at ...

Federal auto safety regulators recently opened another investigation into Tesla’s so-called full self-driving technology after reports that dozens of cars either ran red lights or drove on the wrong ...

Car crashes aren’t very funny. Unless, apparently, it’s a self-driving car. Researchers on public perception of these new vehicles explain why. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...