Uber says its LiDAR comes from its engineers, not stolen documents. Waymo — which gave the public an early inkling of a self-driving car, in the form of a cute compact with no steering wheel ...

Google's $258M investment in Uber shows it is serious about commercializing its self-driving car. As I've argued before and expand upon in my upcoming book, The New Killer Apps: How Big Companies ...

Ride hailing service opens center to experiment with driverless technology. — -- The future we dreamed of decades ago is here -- and instead of flying cars, it's all about driverless vehicles ...

He joined Google in 2007, after helping Stanford University’s DARPA Challenge team with its autonomous vehicles, and was a core member of the Google self-driving car project from its inception ...

Waymo, Google's autonomous car company, sued Uber earlier this year claiming that its former self-driving car expert — Anthony Levandowski — had stolen 14,000 files related to Google's ...

Uber plans to carry passengers in autonomous vehicles without human backup drivers in about the same time frame as competitors, which expect to be on the road at the latest sometime next year, the ...

But while Uber is dominating the ride-hailing business, Google has the advantage in autonomous car research. It has been developing the technology since 2009 (and employs staff who’ve been ...

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In Uber’s Pittsburgh experiment, two company employees (a driver and an engineer) will ride in each car along with passengers, who must first agree to take part.