Self-driving cars are soon headed for the streets of Florida. Self-driving vehicle manufacturer Waymo, a subsidiary of the same parent company that also owns Google, recently announced that it would begin test-driving its self-driving vehicles on Florida’s roads. The company is doing so to further refine the ability of its vehicles, and in particular the…
A report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) regarding a March 1staccident in Delray Beach involving a Tesla equipped with an autonomous driving feature called Autopilot recently found that the vehicle’s system was engaged at the time of the accident and that the driver took his hands off the wheel for the last eight…
A pedestrian wheeling a bicycle across the road was recently killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona, calling into question the safety of the company’s self-driving vehicles and its use of public roads for test-driving those vehicles. This was believed to be the first pedestrian death associated with self-driving vehicles. Prior to this accident,…
The future of America’s roads and, specifically, who will be driving the cars on those roads is an issue very much in a state of flux. Numerous technology companies, including Uber, Apple, Google and even some of the mainstream automobile manufacturers are locked in a struggle to determine who will be the first to develop…
Safe or smart driving technology is advancing at a rapid pace. Many companies are engaged in the race to create the first fully autonomous driving vehicle. There has even been news that Uber is testing a fully autonomous car on the streets of Pittsburgh. Google has been testing a fully autonomous vehicle (with a human…
