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While it was stopped at a red light, a crowd of over a dozen people set upon a Waymo robotaxi and badly vandalized it.

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Furious Crowd Tears Waymo Robotaxi Limb From Limb

By Frank Landymore

A video shows the self-driving system of a Tesla vehicle identify a crossing train as gigantic, elongated cars.

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Video Shows Tesla Self-Driving System Mistaking Train for Procession of Gigantic, Comically Elongated Cars

By Frank Landymore

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is expected to attempt to widen the rules governing self-driving cars.

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Trump Reportedly Planning to Let Self-Driving Cars Loose

By Victor Tangermann

The "conveyor belt road" will form the route for hundreds of robotic pallets that automatically move cargo from city to city.

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Japan Working on “Conveyor Belt Road” Between Tokyo and Osaka

By Frank Landymore

A Tesla owner's vehicle got stuck in a tight alleyway after a firmware update bricked his vehicle's "Summon" feature.

Tesla Software Update Traps Owner’s Car in Narrow Alleyway

By Victor Tangermann

Those self-driving, supposedly fully-autonomous robotaxis aren't all what they appear to be. Humans, it turns out, are still in the loop.

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“Self-Driving” Cars Have a Dirty Secret

By Frank Landymore

Footage shows a gaggle of Waymo robotaxis honking incessantly while trying to park in a tight parking lot in San Francisco.

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Confused Robotaxis Gather in Droves to Honk at Each Other All Night

By Frank Landymore

Waymo is seeking thousands of dollars in damages from two people that it claims deliberately trashed it driverless taxis.

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Waymo Suing People Who Allegedly Trashed Its Robotaxis

By Frank Landymore

A video shows a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona pulling over a self-driving vehicle after it drove down a busy road in the opposing lane.

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Police Pull Over Car for Driving on Wrong Side of Road, Startled to Discover It Has No Driver

By Victor Tangermann

A person driving a Tesla with Full-Self Driving mode had to take the steering wheel after the vehicle became confused by a road worker.

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Watch a Self-Driving Tesla Get Completely Baffled by a Road Worker Directing Traffic

By Sharon Adarlo

Abu Dhabi's Autonomous Racing League was off to a rough start, with one self-driving race car crashing into the wall.

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Self-Driving Formula 1 Car Crashes Into Wall at First Autonomous Race Event

By Victor Tangermann

A video shared by Indian startup Swaayatt Robots shows an adventurous self-driving SUV navigating the hectic streets of Bhopal, India.

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To Experience Pure Anxiety, Watch This Video of a Self-Driving Car Navigating India’s Chaotic Traffic

By Victor Tangermann

After around a decade of extremely secretive development, Apple is officially giving up on building an electric car.

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Apple Gives Up on Apple Car, Moves Team to Generative AI

By Victor Tangermann

Mercedes-Benz just received approval for first-of-its-kind turquoise car lights that indicate a vehicle in self-driving mode.

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Mercedes-Benz Installing New Tail Lights to Show When Car Is Self-Driving

By Frank Landymore

A man in Los Angeles has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 in restitution after killing two people with his Tesla while using Autopilot.

Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

General Motors has lost billions of dollars on Cruise, which has received intense scrutiny from state and federal regulators this year.

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General Motors to Slash Spending on Robotaxis After Disastrous Year

By Frank Landymore

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal how Cruise failed to meet its own safety standards for driving around kids.

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Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway

By Frank Landymore

A woman was found trapped and injured underneath a self-driving car — but the autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn't seem to be the one to hit her.

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Pedestrian Found Critically Injured Under Self-Driving Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Self-Driving Car Gets Stuck in Freshly Poured Concrete

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Self-Driving Car Gets Stuck in Freshly Poured Concrete

By Victor Tangermann

Volkswagen says it will start testing two of its self-driving ID Buzz electric vans in Austin by the end of July.

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Volkswagen to Start Testing Its Adorable Self-Driving Vans

By Frank Landymore

Self-Driving Car Runs Over Dog

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Self-Driving Car Runs Over Dog

By Victor Tangermann

German automaker Mercedes-Benz claims to have achieved Level 3 autonomy in the US, a noteworthy but incremental upgrade.

Mercedes Claims to Have Achieved Level 3 Automation, Beating Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Tokyo attached giant googly eyes to the front of an autonomous golf cart to see if they improve pedestrian safety.

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Scientists Propose Putting Giant Googly Eyes on Self-Driving Cars

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video of police officers pulling over a self-driving taxi is as dystopian as it is hilarious.

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Video Shows Confused Police Pulling Over Self-Driving Taxi

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Washington, DC-based lobbying group representing a number of auto industry heavyweights, is abandoning the term "self-driving,"

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Automotive Lobbying Group Abandons the Term “Self-Driving”

By Victor Tangermann

A new supercut video demonstrates that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that Teslas will drive themselves next year — every year since 2014.

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Watch Elon Musk Promise Self-Driving Cars “Next Year” Every Year Since 2014

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has made some changes under the hood via an over-the-air software update to prevent future collisions with emergency vehicles.

Amazing! New Tesla Autopilot Update Will Avoid Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian vehicle and scooter company Daymak has designed an autonomous car that can mine cryptocurrencies when it's parked.

Upcoming Electric Car Designed to Mine Crypto While Charging

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is now offering its Full Self-Driving subscription, a semi-autnomous driving feature, for a cool $199 a month, a substantial amount of money.

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Costs as Much Per Month as Leasing an Entire Car

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla just showed off its massive new supercomputer — and according to their numbers, it may just be the fifth most powerful one in the world, according to Electrek.

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Tesla Built One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Train Its Self-Driving System

By Victor Tangermann

Following recent reports that Apple is working with manufacturers to realize its first passenger vehicle, top managers are leaving the division in droves.

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It Sounds Like the Apple Car Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

An investigation by Consumer Reports found that a Tesla Model Y could "easily" be driven "even with no one in the driver's seat" while on a closed track.

It’s Shockingly Easy to Drive a Tesla Without Anybody in the Driver’s Seat

By Victor Tangermann

US carmaker Ford just announced its answer to Tesla's Autopilot called BlueCruise. CEO Jim Farley took the opportunity to take potshots at the competition.

Ford CEO Mocks Tesla For Rolling Out Half-Finished Autonomous Driving

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of underage teens in Daytona Beach, Florida, got caught driving a Tesla Model Y on the wrong side of the road. Their excuse: it was driving itself.

Underage Teens Caught Joyriding Tesla, Claim It Was Driving Itself

By Victor Tangermann

Terrifying video footage shows a Tesla Model Y, with its self-driving system engaged, start to drift into multiple lanes of oncoming traffic.

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Watch Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Mode Steer Toward Oncoming Highway Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

According to a Reuters exclusive, tech giant Apple is planning to produce a self-driving passenger car to be released in 2024.

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Apple Is Reportedly Releasing a Self-Driving Car in 2024

By Victor Tangermann

While digging through the code of their Tesla's Full Self-Driving feature, this hacker found an augmented reality view of everything the vehicle sees.

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Tesla Full Self-Driving Code Contains Secret “Augmented Reality View”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owners are freaked out by the new Full Self-Driving beta, which allows it to basically drive itself anywhere, including turns and traffic lights.

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Tesla Bros Are Freaking Out Right Now About the New Full Self-Driving Beta

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just announced on Twitter that the electric car company's Full Self-Driving Beta update is officially being rolled out.

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Tesla Officially Starts Rollout of Full Self-Driving Beta

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is releasing a "Full Self-Driving Beta" to some owners who are "expert and careful drivers" some time next week, according to CEO Elon Musk.

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Musk: Tesla Is Rolling Out a Beta of “Full Self-Driving” Next Week

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli security researchers have figured out how to trick self-driving cars into slamming on the brakes by flicking an image of a stop sign on a billboard.

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Hackers Use Billboards to Trick Self-Driving Cars Into Slamming on the Brakes

By Jon Christian

Human "safety driver" Rafaela Vasquez was charged with one count of negligent homicide following a 2018 deadly car crash involving an Uber self-driving car.

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Uber’s “Safety Driver” During Deadly Self-Driving Car Crash Charged With Negligent Homicide

By Victor Tangermann

In a video message recorded for the Shanghai World AI Conference (WAIC), Musk stated that Tesla will reach (basic) Level 5 autonomy this year.

Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is "working super hard" on an update that will allow Teslas to automatically stop at traffic lights or stop signs.

Elon Musk: Teslas Will Soon Automatically Stop at Traffic Lights

By Victor Tangermann

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

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expecting his electric car company Tesla to release more full self driving features later this month.

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Elon Musk: New Self-Driving Features Will Come Out This Month

By Victor Tangermann

MIT is working on self-driving technology that allows cars to "see" through the ground up to a depth of ten feet below the surface of the road.

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MIT Tech Lets Self-Driving Cars “See” Under Surface of Road

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers posing as hackers tricked a Tesla from 2016 with cruise control enabled into driving up to 50 mph in a 35 mph zone using a small piece of tape.

Hackers Stick Tape on Speed Sign, Trick Teslas Into Going Faster

By Victor Tangermann

Nikkei Asian Review recently did a teardown of a Tesla Model 3. Engineers were shocked at how advanced the company's onboard computer technology was.

Tesla Computer Hardware Stuns Competitors: “We Cannot Do It”

By Victor Tangermann

Waymo workers have told The Verge that passengers keep shooting up in the company's self-driving cars and leaving their used needles behind.

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Waymo Workers: People Keep Injecting Drugs in Self-Driving Cars

By Kristin Houser

Self-driving company Cruise has unveiled driverless SUV-sized car called "Origin" that's been designed from the ground up to never have a driver.

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This Functioning Driverless Car Has No Driver’s Seat

By Victor Tangermann

U.S. states are left to piece together safety regulations for self-driving car companies, and often they're not very strong.

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Senator: Humans Could Be “Test Dummies” For Self-Driving Cars

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

Jaguar is working on futuristic new tech that could turn interior panels of your next car into smart, color-changing, and interactive screens.

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Jaguar Wants to Coat the Interior of Land Rovers With OLED Screens

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT researchers claim to have developed a new technology that allows driverless cars to see around corners to make them safer.

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MIT Research Lets Driverless Cars Spot Obstacles Around Corners

By Victor Tangermann

German carmaker BMW released — and promptly deleted — an ad called "New Moments of Joy" about a future where people can have sex inside self-driving cars.

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BMW Posts, Deletes Ad About Sex Inside Self-Driving Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Truck drivers in Missouri are trying to get self-driving trucks banned in the state over concerns that they would get automated out of a job.

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Truckers Want to Ban Self-Driving Trucks in Missouri

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

These days, people tend to die from cancer, heart disease and accidents. Here are our guesses about all the ways we'll die in the future.

7 Ways to Die in the Future

By Sarah Marquart

A Tesla executive revealed that the number one reason Tesla customers visit service centers is to learn how to use Autopilot.

People Are Going to Tesla Service Centers Just to Learn About Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

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

Uber exec Eric Meyhofer said that the company has "seen people bully [Uber's self-driving] cars," including aggressive behavior and shouted obscenities.

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Road-Raging Humans are Bullying Uber’s Self-Driving Cars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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