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It's not clear yet whether a driver filmed sleeping behind the wheel of a speeding Tesla was sleeping while on autopilot on Queen Elizabeth Way in Canada.

Video Appears to Show Tesla Driver Completely Asleep on Highway

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla owner behind the Twitter account Whole Mars Blog actually chose to throw a live child in front of a moving car over the weekend to prove a point.

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Tesla Fans Put Child in Path of Moving Tesla on Self-Driving Mode

By Victor Tangermann

GM Cruise is losing $5 million every day, and a total of about $5 billion since 2018. Cruise has had multiple safety issues and accidents.

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GM’s Robotaxis Are Losing a Fortune

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twitter video of a four-legged robot dog with a gun strapped to its back went viral this week. Video shows the robot dog firing multiple rounds with recoil.

Hacker Mounts Submachine Gun on Robodog, Shoots Live Ammo

By Lonnie Lee Hood

So much for Tesla having the most advanced self-driving technology in the world.

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Experts Alarmed by Videos of Tesla Full Self-Driving Totally Screwing Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

Autonomous driving startup Nuro has come up with a delivery vehicle that has a giant external-facing airbag in case it ever hits a cyclist or pedestrian.

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Self-Driving Car Has Giant Airbag for When It Accidentally Plows Into Pedestrians

By Victor Tangermann

Waymo's semi-autonomous vehicles have been flocking to and getting stuck in the same dead-end San Francisco street, seemingly nonstop, for weeks.

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Dozens of Self-Driving Cars Getting Stuck on Same Dead-End Street

By Dan Robitzski

A self-driving bus crashed into a visually-impaired paralympian at the athlete's village in Tokyo, but it may not have been the autonomous vehicle's fault.

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Self-Driving Bus Hits Pedestrian at Tokyo Olympic Village

By Dan Robitzski

Back when Tesla was designing the Model Y, engineers worked behind Elon Musk's back to amke sure the vehicle had a steering wheel.

Elon Musk Reportedly Wanted to Remove Steering Wheel from Model Y

By Dan Robitzski

Lyft and the autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI plan to launch a small fleet of self-driving cars in Miami later this year.

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Lyft Says It’ll Deploy Self-Driving Cars by the End of the Year

By Dan Robitzski

While it didn't drive erratically, a Tesla Model 3's Autopilot system got confused when driving behind a truck hauling traffic lights down the highway.

Watch Tesla Autopilot Get Bamboozled by a Truck Hauling Traffic Lights

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla owner shared footage of a bizarre glitch. His Model 3's Autopilot kept slamming the brakes when it spotted a fake stop sign on a billboard.

Tesla Keeps “Slamming on the Brakes” When It Sees Stop Sign on Billboard

By Dan Robitzski

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.

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People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

Waymo's CEO didn't pull punches about Tesla's attempts at self-driving technology, saying he didn't even see Tesla as a competitor.

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Waymo CEO Blasts Tesla’s Self-Driving Tech

By Dan Robitzski

Next year, Walmart plans to take human drivers out of its delivery trucks on a number of routes, putting more faith into its many autonomous truck projects.

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Walmart Plans to Start Ditching Human Delivery Drivers Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

Honda just became the first automaker to be awarded clearance to sell Level 3 autonomous vehicles, which it plans to do in Japan this year.

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Honda Cleared to Begin Selling First Level 3 Autonomous Cars

By Dan Robitzski

After Tesla began rolling out an assistive driving system it calls "Full Self-Driving," federal regulators have started to keep close watch.

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Federal Regulators Are Keeping a Close Watch on Tesla’s “Self-Driving” Beta Test

By Dan Robitzski

Video footage of GM's driverless cars shows some troubling behavior as well as multiple near-accidents on public streets.

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Videos of GM’s Driverless Cars Show Several Near-Crashes

By Dan Robitzski

Cruise just got permission from the California DMV to test out fully-driverless cars in the state, and it plans to be the first to test in San Francisco.

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CA Says General Motors Can Test Fully Driverless Cars on Its Roads

By Dan Robitzski

The autonomous vehicle company Waymo just announced that its self-driving taxi service Waymo One is opening up to the public.

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Waymo Ditches Human Safety Drivers in Its Self-Driving Taxis

By Dan Robitzski

Zoox just laid off all of the contractors it had working as safety drivers for its self-driving cars because of California's shelter-in-place rule.

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Self-Driving Car Company Lays Off All Its Human Safety Drivers

By Dan Robitzski

General Motors is currently lobbying the federal government for permission to test — on public roads — self-driving cars that don't have steering wheels.

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General Motors Wants Self-Driving Cars to Lose the Steering Wheel

By Dan Robitzski

A startup just shipped 40,000 pounds of butter 2,800 miles from California to Pennsylvania in under three days using a truck that was driving itself.

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Self-Driving Truck Completes First Cross-Country Freight Run

By Victor Tangermann

Waymo is now offering cusomters the chance to take rides in its self-driving taxis but without a human safety driver behind the wheel

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Waymo Is Taking the Safety Drivers out of Its Autonomous Taxis

By Dan Robitzski

The self-driving Uber that struck and killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 wasn't programmed to know that people could jaywalk.

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Self-Driving Uber That Killed Woman Didn’t Know Jaywalkers Exist

By Kristin Houser

Tesla says vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in one accident for every 4.34 million miles driven during the third quarter of 2019.

Tesla: Autopilot Is Nearly 9 Times Safer Than the Average Driver

By Kristin Houser

A new video shows a Tesla driver asleep at the wheel while his car, presumably with Autopilot mode enabled, cruises down the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Watch a Tesla Driver Cruise Down the Highway Completely Asleep

By Dan Robitzski

A self-driving racecar league is in its first competitive season, and the vehicles are already approaching world record times.

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Self-Driving Racecars Are Edging Up Toward Human Records

By Dan Robitzski

Internal feedback reveals that Waymo passengers aren't entirely pleased with how the company's self-driving cars are performing.

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Test Riders in Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Won’t Stop Complaining

By Dan Robitzski

Self-driving car companies are benefitting from cheap Venezuelan labor as they compile mountains of annotated training data for their AI.

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Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force built a robot called ROBOpilot that can take off, fly, and land existing planes without help from a human pilot.

Instead of New Drones, the Air Force Built a Plane-Piloting Robot

By Dan Robitzski

Waymo confirmed that it's not interested in building its own self-driving cars. It's focused on developing the software to use in other companies' vehicles.

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Waymo: Building Cars is a “Distraction” From Self-Driving Tech

By Dan Robitzski

We Took a Ride on NYC’s First Self-Driving Shuttle

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We Took a Ride on NYC’s First Self-Driving Shuttle

By Dan Robitzski

Now there's another lawsuit filed against Tesla after a driver died behind the wheel of an "Autopilot"-enabled car that crashed.

Tesla Slammed by Another Autopilot Crash Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

By hacking cars and forcing them to stall, bad actors could grind a city's traffic to a halt — and the easiest entry point may be the vehicle's radios.

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Hackers Could Gridlock a City by Stalling Just 20 Percent of Cars

By Kristin Houser

Eleven companies have teamed up to create "Safety First for Automated Driving," an exhaustive guide to developing safe autonomous vehicles.

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White Paper: These 12 Principles Are Shaping the Future of Autonomous Cars

By Kristin Houser

Waymo, the Alphabet-owned company that develops autonomous cars, just joined an international partnership in hopes of reaching more global markets.

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Waymo’s Bizarre Plan to Bring Autonomous Cars to France and Japan

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Postal Service is about to test self-driving trucks on a thousand-mile stretch in an attempt to save money through automation.

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The U.S. Post Office Is Testing Self-Driving Mail Delivery Trucks

By Dan Robitzski

By enabling communication between mini models of autonomous vehicles, Cambridge researchers improved traffic flow by 35 percent.

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See Mini Self-Driving Cars Work Together to Improve Traffic Flow

By Kristin Houser

China is building new highways with dedicated self-driving car lanes to help usher in widespread autonomous technology. The first will be done next year.

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China’s Rolling Out Dedicated Highway Lanes for Self-Driving Cars

By Dan Robitzski

A self-driving car company's operations lead shared what it's like to be the safety driver keeping an eye on an autonomous vehicle.

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A Self-Driving Car’s Human Operator Says He Takes Over When Passengers Get Impatient

By Dan Robitzski

Self-driving cars will disrupt carefully constructed social contracts, claims New York University data journalism professor Meredith Broussard.

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Expert: In 50 Years, Self-Driving Cars Will Be “Unthinkable”

By Kristin Houser

Designated Driver's teleoperations system allows a human driver to remotely control a self-driving car if it malfunctions or encounters a tricky situation.

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This Startup Pays Humans to Remotely Operate “Driverless” Cars

By Kristin Houser

New video footage shows that a dangerous problem with the Tesla Autopilot system that makes cars veer towards highway dividers is still happening.

Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

By Dan Robitzski

Donald Trump reportedly told several people that he believes self-driving cars will never work, despite his administration's push to develop them.

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Trump Fears Self-Driving Cars: “You Can’t Stop the F*cking Thing”

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey by AAA shows that most Americans distrust self-driving cars. In the past two years, public trust in the emerging technology has gone down.

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Just 19 Percent of Americans Trust Self-Driving Cars With Kids

By Dan Robitzski

Uber is not criminally liable for a March 2018 self-driving car death, say prosecutors, but the safety driver behind the wheel might still face charges.

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Prosecutors: Uber Isn’t Criminally Liable for Self-Driving Car Death

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army just put out a call for experts to help it develop autonomous targeting systems for ground combat vehicles like tanks.

The Military Wants to Build Deadly AI-Controlled Tanks

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing just announced that its autonomous fighter jet, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System, will first take flight sometime next year.

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Death From Above: Boeing Unveils Autonomous Fighter Jet

By Dan Robitzski

self-driving car company Waymo recently shared a video showing one of its autonomous vehicles being waved through an intersection where the light was out.

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Watch a Self-Driving Car Obey Police Hand Signals

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk recently claimed that Tesla would put fully-autonomous vehicles on the road before year's end. Experts in the field don't buy it.

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Expert Roasts Musk: Self-Driving Teslas In a Year Is “Impossible”

By Dan Robitzski

The relationship between law enforcement and self-driving cars is still in flux, but some are suggesting we give let police control self-driving cars.

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Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car

By Kristin Houser

According to a report put out by California's DMV, Waymo's autonomous vehicles drive 11,154.3 miles per disengagement, but that number might be generous.

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Expert Slams Waymo Safety Data: “They Obviously Do Not Trust These Numbers”

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla owner claims his car crashed because he wasn't able to disengage its Autopilot feature, but Tesla isn't buying his excuse.

Tesla Driver Claims Autopilot Wouldn’t Let Him Prevent Crash

By Kristin Houser

Self-driving cars will opt to slowly cruise city streets instead of paying parking fees, according to one transportation expert.

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Expert: Self-Driving Cars Will Clog Streets to Avoid Parking Fees

By Kristin Houser

A self-driving truck was spotted pulling an Amazon trailer down the I-10, a new sign that the company is committed to autonomous transportation.

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Amazon Was Spotted Using a Self-Driving Truck to Haul Cargo

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk, the CEO of electric car maker Tesla, said that he expects the company's vehicles to be capable of fully autonomous driving by the end of 2019.

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Elon Musk: Teslas Should Have “Full Self-Driving” by End of 2019

By Jon Christian

Wall Street investors seem to believe that the real value of autonomous vehicles comes from the data they'll collect, based on recent AV company valuations.

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Investors Pour Money Into Self-Driving Cars to Capitalize on Data

By Dan Robitzski

Florida Law Would Allow Self-Driving Cars With No Safety Drivers

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Florida Law Would Allow Self-Driving Cars With No Safety Drivers

By Dan Robitzski

Exclusive: A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings

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Exclusive: A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings

By Dan Robitzski

The startup Mapillary uses photos sourced from the crowd to create the highly detailed, up-to-date maps self-driving cars need.

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Self-Driving Cars Could Rely on Crowdsourced Maps

By Kristin Houser

Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged this week that the electric car maker is about to kick its fully autonomous self-driving vehicle ambitions up a notch.

Musk: Tesla’s Fully Autonomous Capabilities “About to Accelerate”

By Jon Christian

Uber will begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh on Thursday, marking the company's first tests since a fatal incident in March.

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Nine Months After Killing a Pedestrian, Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Are Back on the Road

By Dan Robitzski

Samsung Is Reportedly Helping Tesla With Self-Driving Car Tech

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Samsung Is Reportedly Helping Tesla With Self-Driving Car Tech

By Dan Robitzski