The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has identified five major advantages of autonomous vehicles. Most serious car accidents are caused by human error, so the NHTSA believes that ...

In the lidar race, the technology for autonomous cars is still thought to be in its infancy. Companies like Luminar and Blackmore Sensors and Analytics are working on higher-wavelength models that ...

DURHAM – Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated the first attack strategy that can fool industry-standard autonomous vehicle sensors into believing nearby objects are closer (or ...

Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski said the move is meant to help bolster his company's ranks with like-minded talent and ...

Beyond Tesla and Waymo, the real winners in autonomous vehicles could be the semiconductor, sensor, and software companies.

Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has unveiled a new design for its self-driving cars that looks much more pleasing than the vehicles in testing today. The design was debuted as Pony.ai ...

The sensors constantly shoot out lasers that bounce back, telling the car precisely where other objects are. The magic of the driverless vehicle is the artificial intelligence behind the sensors.

A new lidar sensor could equip thousands of driverless cars with the sensing abilities required to drive at high speeds on the open road. Lidar has become the primary way most driverless cars ...

Much like road grime, snow buildup on the sensors is a solvable but bothersome issue. Once the view is clear, autonomous vehicle sensors are still not always in agreement about detecting obstacles.

What car would terrify you the most to see on the open road as a driverless taxi? We want to know which vehicles could send a ...

The development of collision-avoidance sensors to enhance autonomous vehicle technology will require more advances for a new era in connectivity to infrastructure, as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5 ...

Autonomous car company Waymo, a Google sibling and part of Alphabet, has just published a detailed explainer about the newest version of the sensors on some of its vehicles.