Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyes

My short film above, “Their Eyes,” spotlights the invisible, human work behind A.I. In it I explore the daily lives of ...

Cars are essential to American life. They’re also toxic for the environment, humans, and society, these authors say.

For most Americans, driving is a normal part of everyday life. In much of the United States, a car is required for most trips ...

Robotaxis And Driverless Cars Need A Fourth Traffic Light - Here's Why

Driverless cars are no longer things of the future. Engineers at NC State University propose adding a fourth traffic light to ...

Passengers' Brain Signals May Help Self-Driving Cars Make Safer Choices

In a new study, Chinese researchers tested whether monitoring passengers’ brain activity could help self-driving systems make ...
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Why self-driving cars might never be safe

The advent of self-driving cars promises a future where transportation is more efficient and less reliant on human input. Yet, despite the technological advancements, significant safety concerns ...
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Self-Driving Cars Will Make the World Safer for Cats—and Humans Too

San Francisco is an admittedly quirky city, but an emotional debate there over the tragic death of a cat is strangely emblematic about the way too many Americans react to current events. Something bad ...
Mashable

Driverless cars need to be more human, study finds

Self-driving cars may need to act more like humans, new research has found. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found autonomous cars with a greater focus on being ...
Time

Waymo’s Self-Driving Future Is Here

Waymo co-CEOs Dmitri Dolgov and Tekedra MawakanaKelsey McClellan for TIME Moments before I hop into my first Waymo in Austin, Texas, the driverless car is already locked in a standoff with a human ...
Jezebel

All of the accidents self-driving cars have had in California were caused by humans

This week, California’s DMV released reports for the nine accidents involving self-driving cars in the state over the last year. Spoiler: they were all caused by humans. The first accident happened in ...

Tesla’s ‘Mad Max Mode’ Points to a Big Problem for Self-Driving Cars

Tesla made Mad Max mode available briefly in 2018 and then reintroduced it in October. It contradicts a core promise of ...
Star Tribune

Opinion | Minneapolis should welcome Waymo’s self-driving cars

Last week, Waymo began testing its self-driving cars in Minneapolis, mapping our streets with human safety drivers behind the wheel. The California-based company eventually plans to deploy fully ...