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MIT Researchers Come Up with Traffic Lights-Free Intersections
MIT Researchers Come Up with Traffic Lights-Free Intersections

21 Mar 2016, 14:13 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The first cars didn't have to deal with traffic lights, so in some ways, we're going back into the past, only on a much more hi-tech route

 
Uber Allegedly Agrees to Buy 100,000 Autonomous Mercedes-Benz S-Class Vehicles
Uber Allegedly Agrees to Buy 100,000 Autonomous Mercedes-Benz S-Class Vehicles

18 Mar 2016, 20:56 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / It's not exactly the kind of thing a ride-sharing company would do, but since we're talking about self-driving vehicles, such a move makes a lot more sense

 
Irony at Its Best: Google Gets Bus Detection Patent After Colliding with a Bus
Irony at Its Best: Google Gets Bus Detection Patent After Colliding with a Bus

15 Mar 2016, 17:21 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / You can't make this stuff up: Google applied for bus detection patent in 2014, but gets it one month after the famous autonomous car vs. bus fracas

 
After Two Wins, Google's AI Is One Game Away from Defeating Go World Champion
After Two Wins, Google's AI Is One Game Away from Defeating Go World Champion

10 Mar 2016, 12:52 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Artificial Intelligence is capable of beating the human mind in everything related to mathematics, and since pretty much everything is, we're screwed

 
Ford Wants to Turn Autonomous Cars into Mobile Movie Theatres
Ford Wants to Turn Autonomous Cars into Mobile Movie Theatres

8 Mar 2016, 22:50 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / What's the point of having self-driving cars, if you can't make the most of the time spent behind the wheel of the car while not driving?

 
Study Reveals 75 Percent of American Drivers Are Afraid of Autonomous Cars
Study Reveals 75 Percent of American Drivers Are Afraid of Autonomous Cars

8 Mar 2016, 18:03 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / We've gone from "how cool it would be to have autonomous cars" to testing them in just a few years, but people need more than that to get used to the idea

 
A Google Autonomous Vehicle Traded Some Paint with a Bus, Seems to Be at Fault
A Google Autonomous Vehicle Traded Some Paint with a Bus, Seems to Be at Fault

29 Feb 2016, 19:50 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Depending on how you look at it, this can be either a setback or an opportunity to learn something new for Google's fleet of autonomous cars

 
Volvo Puts Autonomous Technology to Very Questionable Use
Volvo Puts Autonomous Technology to Very Questionable Use

29 Feb 2016, 12:32 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Volvo proves there's always a much more complicated - and possibly expensive - way of doing simple things, you just have to work very hard to find it

 
Volvo Starts Production of XC90 Excellence, Updates Range for MY 2017
Volvo Starts Production of XC90 Excellence, Updates Range for MY 2017

27 Feb 2016, 13:00 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Volvo will start making its most luxurious model this year, the four-seat XC90 Excellence. The new version of the SUV isn't the only novelty introduced by Volvo

 
Autonomous Cars Might Actually Raise the Number of Vehicles on the Road
Autonomous Cars Might Actually Raise the Number of Vehicles on the Road

26 Feb 2016, 21:08 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The self-driving cars aren't yet on the streets, and people are already starting to think about their energy consumption by 2050

 
Google Wants to Take the Steering Wheel Off Autonomous Cars, and It Has a Point
Google Wants to Take the Steering Wheel Off Autonomous Cars, and It Has a Point

25 Feb 2016, 20:36 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / If you thought getting used to autonomous cars was going to be difficult, just imagine getting into a road-going vehicle with no steering wheel

 
The Rare Situation When Having Better (Bigger) Potholes Is a Good Thing
The Rare Situation When Having Better (Bigger) Potholes Is a Good Thing

25 Feb 2016, 19:40 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Testing autonomous cars for use on real roads is going to be a very complex task, and that's why every aspect has to be taken into consideration

 
Roborace Has Cars Designed by the Man Who Drew the Tron: Legacy Light Cycles
Roborace Has Cars Designed by the Man Who Drew the Tron: Legacy Light Cycles

18 Feb 2016, 16:17 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Shortly after Formula E became the first major competition dedicated to EVs, another trending technology in the automotive industry will get its own series

 
Artificial Intelligence Does Pose a Potential Threat, but Not the Movie-Kind
Artificial Intelligence Does Pose a Potential Threat, but Not the Movie-Kind

15 Feb 2016, 17:31 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The autonomous cars might very well be the first real robots that humankind builds, but should that mean we have to kill them with fire while we can?

 
Autonomous Vehicles Will Hit 15% of Global Sales by 2030, Study Predicts
Autonomous Vehicles Will Hit 15% of Global Sales by 2030, Study Predicts

5 Jan 2016, 22:49 UTC · By: Mircea Iordache / We are yet to have a fully autonomous car on the road, but a report says that, in less than 14 years, we'll all be watching Netflix while "driving" to work

 
NHTSA Ready to Rethink Rules in the Light of Self-Driving Cars Proliferation
NHTSA Ready to Rethink Rules in the Light of Self-Driving Cars Proliferation

18 Dec 2015, 11:02 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / We knew that legislative setup was holding back the wide use of self-driving cars, but it may now deal a blow to research and testing as well

 
The Man Who First Hacked an iPhone Is Now Making a Self-Driving Car System
The Man Who First Hacked an iPhone Is Now Making a Self-Driving Car System

17 Dec 2015, 12:49 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / If George Hotz has his way, not too far in the future, you'll be able to turn your non-self-driving car into an autonomous one with just $1,000

 
Baidu’s BMW 3 Series Self-Driving Machine Takes a Tour Around Beijing
Baidu’s BMW 3 Series Self-Driving Machine Takes a Tour Around Beijing

10 Dec 2015, 10:43 UTC · By: Alexandru Monenciu / Chinese web services company Baidu has recently stated its self-driving car has successfully navigated around the capital city of Beijing

 
Ford Catches Up with the Rest, Makes Progress Towards Self-Driving Cars
Ford Catches Up with the Rest, Makes Progress Towards Self-Driving Cars

2 Dec 2015, 18:53 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / With one company supplying most of the driving aid technology these days - Bosch - it's only natural for all manufacturers to come up with similar solutions

 
Google Self-Driving Cars Reporting in After an Eventful November Month
Google Self-Driving Cars Reporting in After an Eventful November Month

2 Dec 2015, 18:31 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The Google self-driving car project is in its sixth year, but the cars are still learning. Sometimes, they're doing it the hard way