Self-driving car companies (like Waymo) are already operating robotaxi fleets in major cities such as Phoenix, San Francisco and LA. Meanwhile, in the U.K., the Automated Vehicles Act came into law ...

Urban Economies reflect how their residents get around. And before long, that will start to change—more dramatically than at any time since the automobile was invented over a century ago. The ...

IN 1995 RESEARCHERS from Carnegie Mellon University drove 3,000 miles from Pittsburgh to San Diego without their hands on the steering wheel. The “No Hands Across America” tour marked the start of a ...

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 ...

Dr. Slotkin is a neurosurgeon. I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash. The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding, but we all knew. When ...

A new advocacy group is pushing state lawmakers to pass more stringent autonomous vehicle regulations. The group, Safe Autonomous Vehicles Everywhere in the United States (SAVE-US), says its goal is ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to ...

Uber says it is "ready to go" with its fleet of self-driving cars, but regulations in the UK could prevent them from touching the tarmac for several years. Despite the ridesharing company's aim to ...