Ford Announces Partnership with Lyft to Bring Self-Driving Cars to Ride-Sharing Service
On Wednesday, Ford Motor Company announced that it is forging a partnership with rideshare provider Lyft to help create a quicker path toward self-driving cars and, as Ford Vice President of Autonomous Vehicles and Electrification Sherif Marakby puts it, “help both companies progress toward a more affordable, dependable, and accessible transportation future.” Marakby made the announcement official […]
Ford and Domino’s Aim to Kill Pizza Delivery Careers with Self-Driving Cars
The automation of labor is a can of worms that must one day be opened; whether it leads to embracing the necessity of a universal wage and accepting the end of work or working to delay the inevitable in order to prolong traditional human working standards, the march of technology demands the conversation happen widely […]
States Consider Taxing Self-Driving Cars to Make Up for Lost Gas Revenue
Increasingly efficient cars are having one unfortunate consequence for state and federal governments—they actually reduce their tax revenue. This is for the simple reason that, generally, to pay for infrastructure costs, the government typically uses revenue raised from taxes on gasoline sales, which, at least at the federal level, have not been adjusted since 1993. […]
Where the Top 10 Companies are with Self-Driving Cars
With so many major car manufacturers and tech companies in the self-driving car race, it’s hard to keep up with each one’s progress. Each one has a different proposed release date for their self-driving car contribution. Some manufacturers have modified those proposed release dates based on how fast or slow the technology development and design […]
Self-Driving Cars: What Do They Mean for Bicyclists?
In order for self-driving technology to be safe on the roadways, those cars have to be able to navigate and predict movements of other vehicles. So where does that leave bicyclists? Anticipating a bicyclist’s actions isn’t as easy as predicting the movements of other self-driving vehicles. For that reason, researchers at Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, […]
Honda Announces Plans to Introduce Self-Driving Cars by 2025
Today Honda announced its intentions to introduce vehicles with “Level 4” highly automated driving systems installed by the year 2025 (if mankind is still alive…) This comes after an earlier announcement that Honda and Acura vehicles will feature “Level 3” highly-automated freeway driving capability by 2020. Honda says both targets are crucial to the automaker’s […]
Toyota Explores Blockchain Technology for Self-Driving Cars
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced at Consensus 2017 on Monday that it is exploring blockchain and distributed ledger technology for application in its future mobility ecosystem. Blockchain is currently used primarily in cryptocurrency as a way to increase transaction speeds and security without involving bureaucrats or middlemen. However, it also has many potential applications […]
Trump Administration Pondering Self-Driving Cars
We’ve been talking about autonomous cars pretty much non-stop on The News Wheel for months, if not years. Self-driving cars are the future, so we have been told, and will make our roadways infinitely safe. The innovations in autonomous cars were spurred on in the past few years by support from the Obama administration, which […]
Self-Driving Cars Could Spell Trouble for Organ Donation
Autonomous cars are becoming a priority around the world, because removing human error from driving will make roadways safer and cut down on fatalities in accidents. However, it has recently been pointed out that this piece of cutting-edge technology might get us where we least expect it—organ donation. According to Slate, we all carry organ donation […]
How Many More Miles of Testing Do Self-Driving Cars Need? 8.8 Billion, Toyota Says
It’s been clear for several months now that Toyota is going all-in on autonomous driving—why else invest $1 billion in the new Toyota Research Institute (TRI), which is entirely dedicated to researching and developing the AI and robotics systems that can make self-driving cars possible? Actually getting there, however, is going to be a huge […]
New Video Explains Why Traffic Sucks, and How Self-Driving Cars Would Un-Suck Traffic
The advantages of a self-driving car are evident to a lot of people. The primary perk is convenience, and the fact that your autonomous vehicle can always give you a safe ride, no matter how sleepy, distracted, and/or intoxicated you are. But the personal benefits of having a self-driving car are just the tip of […]
BMW Teams Up With Intel And Mobileye For Self-Driving Cars
It’s hard to read the news about cars and not see something about autonomous driving. If the forecasts are to be believed, we could be seeing cars that drive themselves on the road in the very near future. While many automakers are rolling out technology to guide cars on the highways, BMW is looking further […]
IHS Study Foresees 21 Million Self-Driving Cars Sold Globally in 2035
IHS Automotive has looked into the future—and it is predicting that more than 21 million fully and semi-autonomous vehicles will be sold around the world in 2035. A recent IHS Automotive forecast predicted this grown in autonomous vehicles in the year 2035, along with an estimate that nearly 76 million vehicles with some level of […]
Stephen Colbert Does Not Trust Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars are learning how to navigate America’s highways and surface streets as we speak, and they could soon be ready for consumer use. Just last week, it was announced that one company is very close to having a system ready to install on semi trucks that would allow them to drive themselves for stretches […]
Report Shows Self-Driving Cars Will Change the Automotive Insurance Industry
As the automotive industry moves forward, there is no longer a question as to whether or not there will be self-driving cars in its future. Now, it’s more of a question as to when these vehicles will appear on the market and how it will affect the industry as a whole. Once autonomous vehicles become […]
Is Detroit Moving Towards Self-Driving Cars?
In an effort to keep up with the times, automotive industry giants like General Motors and Ford are investing in technology that should keep them ahead of the pack in an industry that is rapidly evolving. As of late, Silicon Valley is seeing its share of investment capital from the two Detroit-based auto companies as […]
Ever Wonder Why Google Doesn’t Want Steering Wheels in Its Self-Driving Cars?
Google has been designing and testing its self-driving “Koala” car for quite a while now, recently spreading its testing activities to rainy Washington (as opposed to sunny California). In addition, Google recently won a big victory in federal regulations when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agreed that the “driver” in Google’s proposed car would […]