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California regulators' decision to permit self-driving cars to accept paying customers in San Francisco may usher in a new era of transportation, or it may prove to be a false dawn. Either way, the ...

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 ...

Full self-driving. Tesla’s astonishingly wild promise seems to have gone off the rails. It’s been nearly a decade since Tesla announced that all of its production vehicles would be capable of ...

Self-driving cars have been hailed as the future of transportation, promising safer roads and increased convenience. Despite significant advancements, current autonomous vehicle technology still faces ...

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 ...

Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy. Since 2016, Tesla has claimed that all its vehicles ...

Once a wild dream, self-driving vehicles are already on public roads, in some cases hauling people inside cities. Tesla even self-delivered a car from the factory to a customer's house with no one in ...

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 ...

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 ...