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The road of the future is likely to become the brain and nerve center of an autonomous-driving revolution. (2018)
Smart regulation and smart technology must go hand in hand "REGULATING A COMPLEX new technology is hard, particularly if it is evolving rapidly.... (2018)
Foreseen and unforeseen consequences "ROAD TRIPS. DRIVE-THROUGHS. Shopping malls. Freeways. Car chases. Road rage. Cars changed the world in all... (2018)
How autonomous vehicles will reshape cities "MODERN CITIES, PARTICULARLY in America, are habitats for cars as much as people, devoting huge amou... (2018)
Carmakers, tech companies and ride-hailing firms are all fighting for a piece of the action "IF YOU WANT to buy a fully self-driving car, you ma... (2018)
Making vehicles drive themselves is hard, but getting easier "THE MODERN AUTOMOTIVE era began with a competition. In the early 1890s there was m... (2018)
Driverless vehicles will change the world, just as cars did before them. What went wrong last time round holds valuable lessons for getting it righ... (2018)
A NEW kind of vehicle is taking to the roads, and people are not sure what to make of it. Is it safe? How will it get along with other road users? ... (2018)
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)
AutoNews, 2017, Bob Lutz: "This article will be included in “Redesigning the Industry,” a five-part Automotive News series exploring the future of... (2017)
Science Magazine, 2016: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils, such a... (2016)
Bloomberg 2017: "A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups. A decade later, the competitors are struggling to perfec... (2017)
The Google sister company is the first to offer a commercial ride-hailing service in cars with empty front seats. (2020)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)