A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph)
on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and Ingolstadt. I'm in the …

In the Tesla fatality in China, a driver in Autopilot mode slammed into the back of a street
cleaner on a highway. Five months later, a Tesla driver, also in Autopilot mode, was killed in …

Jane has a meeting this morning, so the car comes to pick her up at 8: 15. En route, she
finishes her breakfast, reviews her PowerPoint slides, updates her Facebook status, and …

DRIVERLESS AUTOMOBILE is the goal of a German research project called VITA, for Vision
Technology Application. Video cameras sense the carÃs position in its lane, tra—c signs …

In 1999, more than a decade before Google captured the imagination of the world with the
idea of a self-driving car, Professor Amnon Shashua of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and …

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another
is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor …

Tt's likely to be a long time before drivers are redundant, but cars are taking on more and
more tasks under computer control. As the Rinspeed Oasis is a concept car that, in reality …

If only technical issues mattered, driverless vehicles would soon be common place: After 40
years of research the technology is close to leaving the prototype stage: Late in 2007 six …

Just like Ford's Model T, which debuted in 1908, today's automobiles have four tires, a
steering wheel, and seats. Henry Ford would have little trouble behind the wheel, but he …