San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car tests
31 January 2023
San Francisco officials have called for a slower, more considered expansion of the use of autonomous vehicles, which have blocked traffic and hampered emergency services
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Why you may never be able to buy your own self-driving car
7 December 2022
Despite recent claims of vehicles having full automation, it is no more possible to buy a truly self-driving car now than it was 15 years ago. Will private cars that never need a driver ever reach the market?
Driverless cars could force other road users to drive more efficiently
24 May 2022
Cars controlled by AI drive smoothly and more efficiently, and a computer model suggests the effect spreads to nearby drivers too
Driverless cars can be tricked into seeing red traffic lights as green
14 April 2022
Aiming lasers at the cameras used in driverless cars caused them to incorrectly interpret red traffic lights as green 30 per cent of the time
Google and Waymo used driverless cars to make a virtual San Francisco
18 February 2022
Software can analyse millions of static photographs of city streets taken atop cars and construct a realistic 3D model
Google and Waymo used driverless cars to make a virtual San Francisco
16 February 2022
Software can analyse millions of static photographs taken in city streets and create a realistic 3D model that users can smoothly navigate
Why self-driving cars could be going the way of the jetpack
28 July 2021
Driverless cars were supposed to be relieving us of the stresses of driving by now – but safety issues and technological shortcomings are keeping the brakes firmly on
Should we all wear sensors to avoid being run over by driverless cars?
5 March 2021
Pedestrians should wear radar reflectors to avoid being hit by self-driving cars, says a team of researchers that has created a device to make people more visible to a vehicle’s artificial intelligence
Driverless cars and the other biggest sci and tech fails of the decade
18 December 2019
Whether it was driverless cars, lab-grown meat or faster-than-light neutrinos, some things just didn't live up to the hype in the 2010s
From driverless cars to AI bridges, are we giving up too much control?
28 August 2019
The cars will be beautiful in a future where AIs are in control and even build instant bridges, but a new exhibition at London's Science Museum asks whose interests set the agenda
