self-driving car

Ford is getting serious about its self-driving car unit, and has spun out its autonomous car division into its own company. Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC now encompasses "all aspects of its self-driving vehicle business operations, to accelerate its AV business and capitalize on market opportunities."

Anthony Levandowski has now begun yet another self-driving car company called Kache.ai. As it stands, the firm remains in stealth mode, so we don't know all too much about these new efforts -- yet. However, we do know that the company has ambitious goals, and that it's currently looking to hire engineers.

Self-driving vehicles have the possibility to bring multiple benefits -- from safer driving experiences to less congestion in cities. With that being said, they're not perfect. Accidents happen for reasons of both human and technical error. These are the most significant crashes so far.

Waymo just keeps burning up the pavement. On Tuesday, the company's chief business development officer announced that its fleet of autonomous vehicles will reach 7 million test miles driven by the end of this week. That means that Waymo's testing pace has accelerated significantly in the last month.

Better computer-generated graphics is helping self-driving cars learn to maneuver life-like roads under simulated conditions.

Porsche may start work on developing flying taxis as a way of combating gridlock and quickly ferrying users through major cities.

Hyundai announced that a fleet of it fuel cell electric cars successfully completed a "self-driven 190 kilometer (118 mile) journey from Seoul to Pyeongchang.

Waymo is finally bringing its autonomous vehicle technology back to the place it all began -- San Francisco.

Autonomous cars had a huge showing at CES 2018, with astounding concepts on display from Toyota, Nvidia, and more.

Many self-driving cars aren't able to handle adverse weather, but the Finnish creation Martti is specially equipped for snowy roads.

Toyota is gearing up to put its latest autonomous vehicle technology through "extreme" testing on a closed driving course in California.

Welcome to the fake city of Castle, built by Google in California to test the artificial intelligence algorithms of its self-driving cars.

Bosch's R&D department uses artificial intelligence to help cars see their environment. Here's how AI by Bosch lets them drive themselves.

Waymo has begun improving the way its autonomous vehicles detect emergency vehicles with tests in Arizona.

Volvo announced last week that it has begun trials in Sweden with a self-driving garbage truck that follows garbage collectors around.

Seeing traffic lights is rather important for a self-driving car -- and the anti-flicker tech inside Sony's latest sensor makes it happen.

This college student used downloaded software and some ingenuity to turn his Honda Civic into an autonomous vehicle -- for just $700.

Grab and NuTonomy just partnered to bring driverless taxis on demand in Singapore.