Autonomous vehicles keep crashing into a problem that no software update can easily fix: the messy, unspoken social rules that govern how humans share the road. Regulators have pulled permits, federal ...
The automobile industry is promising that autonomous vehicles will be much safer on the road with fewer errors made by human beings. However, despite being pretty advanced, self-driving cars’ ...
Urban Economies reflect how their residents get around. And before long, that will start to change—more dramatically than at any time since the automobile was invented over a century ago. The ...
Driving involves reading minds. You can’t simply treat other drivers as objects. If you want to be a safe and effective driver, you need skills to imagine what others are thinking and trying to do.
Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast. It feels as if we’ve ...
Waymo is rapidly expanding in the U.S. But experts say there are big questions about how self-driving cars could affect traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. By Claire Brown Call an Uber in Austin or ...
Self-driving cars have made impressive progress. They can follow lanes, keep their distance, and navigate familiar routes with ease. However, despite years of development, they still struggle with one ...
Los Angeles is a car city, and it’s rarely more obvious than from a vulnerable perch on top of a bicycle. Among big cities in the US, LA has a middling-to-bad reputation for bike riding. A lack of ...