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Driverless Car Drives 175 Miles on Busy Chinese Expressway, No GPS Necessary
Chinese Driverless Car National University of Defense Technology According to China Daily, back in July, a Chinese driverless car traveled about 175 miles, at around 55 mph, on an expressway laden...
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Why Tesla Could Be The Company To Crack The Self-Driving Car
2013 Tesla Model S Car companies like Nissan and Lexus are doing it. Tech companies like Google are doing it. So why not Tesla, the company with the tightest integration of tech and automotive?...
View ArticleWhere In The World Have Driverless Cars Driven?
It may be another decade before most ordinary folks use self-driving cars to get around town. But some of us may have already seen them around town, at least: Over the past…
View ArticleGoogle Testing Its Self-Driving Cars In A Complete Virtual "Matrix California"
The idea of sharing the road with one of Google’s autonomous cars can be a bit unnerving. What if one of them malfunctions mid-drive and turns right into the middle of a busy intersection? Plus, who...
View ArticleAdaptive, Programmable Headlights Cut Through Rain, Illuminate Without...
This is perhaps the only optical illusion you would want to see while you're driving. A team of university engineers has created a vehicle headlight that adjusts itself so…
View ArticleGoogle vs The DMV: How To Test A Self-Driving Car
In May 2012, Google's self-driving car underwent a classic American teenage ritual. It took a driving test at a DMV. The car passed, but apparently not without a little lobbying from its parent. As...
View ArticleTesla CEO Wants Mostly Self-Driving Cars By Next Year
Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors promises the car of the future today. In September, the billionaire promised something new for his electric vehicles: autopilot, mostly. Well, “90 percent of your miles can be...
View ArticleAudi Claims Self-Driving Car Set Speed Record At 149 MPH
A major selling point of self-driving cars is what they remove from the road: human error, driver exhaustion, distracted driving because someone has to keep reminding the urchins in the backseat that...
View ArticleCES 2015: Delphi's New Autonomous Driving System Is High-Tech And Well-Hidden...
The first thing that struck us about Delphi's autonomous-driving model of the Audi S Q5 was that it looked like, well, a car. And a sleek one at that. Each of the vehicle's…
View ArticleUber Working Toward Self-Driving Cars
Ride-sharing service Uber is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University to develop cars that will drive themselves, and could someday drive you around too.
View ArticleBritain Launches First Driverless Car—And It’s Precious
Britain’s first driverless car doesn’t look like a car at all. The electric-powered LUTZ Pathfinder launched Wednesday, wandering the sidewalks of London’s Greenwich…
View ArticleDriverless Car Race From Paris To Beijing 'Would Be Close To Impossible'
Whenever a radical new technology promises to change our way of life, it's only a matter of time before Hollywood finds a way to turn it into a comedic farce. Case in…
View ArticlePeople Keep Crashing Into Google's Self-Driving Cars
Google's self-driving cars have only been involved in 11 accidents over 1.7 million miles driven. That's probably better than most people.
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This Insanely Hard, Self-Driving Robot Race Takes Place In A Parking Lot
Robot rockTed Burnham/PopSciThe hexapod robot in the foreground was constructed by Larry Watkins and Todd Heinze. In the background, a robot constructed by Ben Greer ambles along.The challenge of the...
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The War Over Your Future Driverless Car Service Has Begun
UberAn example of a driver that Uber might replace, if the ride-sharing company continues to move towards driverless cars.Even though Google’s driverless car only hit public roads last week (and...
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Tesla Pushes The Limits Of The Model S With 'Ludicrous Mode'
Tesla's Model S hits the road in San FranciscoEric AdamsElectric car maker Tesla conducted a mysterious conference call/press announcement today. By “mysterious,” of course, we simply mean they didn’t...
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Robot, You Can Drive My Car
The UrbmobileFrom the 1967 PopSci archivesIn the second episode of Futuropolis, the podcast that explores what everyday life will be like in the future, we’re tackling your daily commute. Sitting in...
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Uber Powerful: The Car Service's Brazen Plan To Become A Robotic Superpower
Uber PowerfulPopular ScienceThis past spring, two engineers huddled behind computer monitors as they fine-tuned a robotic ape. The 443-pound simian-inspired machine, called Chimp, would soon be...
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Prototypes Are Coming To Public Roads In Austin
Google Self-Driving Car PrototypeGoogleThe Google Car is coming to AustinOur first glimpse of Google’s driverless cars came in 2012. Since then, Google has confined most of its test-drives of these...
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Toyota Wants Crash-Proof Cars, But Don't Call Them 'Self-Driving'
Google's modified self-driving Toyota PriusGoogleThe Toyota Motor Company has been conspicuously absent from most of the buzz surrounding self-driving cars in recent years (not counting Google's fleet...
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