Autonomous Driving
Latest
Detroit lets automakers test smart parking technology in a real garage
It's another step on the road to a car that'll schlep itself off to park while you enjoy your day.
Tesla's 'Dojo' supercomputer will train its vision-centric autonomous tech
At a CVPR 2021 workshop, Tesla has explained how it's planning to do vision-only autonomous driving using an in-house supercomputer called "Dojo,"
Waymo's set to test its self-driving taxis in San Francisco
Alphabet's self-driving subsidiary Waymo is for the first time expanding its testing range beyond the boundaries of the Phoenix, Arizona area and heading to the City by the Bay.
Amazon's Zoox shows off its first autonomous robotaxi
It’s been almost six months since Amazon purchased self-driving startup Zoox, and today the company pulled the wraps off its first autonomous vehicle.
Waymo doesn't like California's benchmark for self-driving research
Waymo is the latest company to criticize "disengagements," a metric that indicates how often a human driver is forced to take over from a fully-autonomous driving system. At the moment, every company with a self-driving car program in California must report their disengagements to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). That includes Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, the General Motors-owned Cruise, Aurora and Nuro. The metric wasn't meant to create a public-facing leaderboard. However, industry onlookers have inevitably used disengagements to compare the maturity of these companies and the sophistication of their self-driving software. Why? Because it's rare for startups to give out lots of meaningful data, especially in a way that can be directly compared to their competition. Disengagements aren't perfect, but as the age-old saying goes, something is better than nothing.
