AdvertisementAs tech historian Peter Norton told me this week, promises like this — that new kinds of cars will solve the problems caused by our current cars — are nothing new. In his 2021 book “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Dri...
Economy:Blacksburg-based Torc autonomous vehicle company to acquire Canadian computer vision company — Virginia Business. Health care:Work continues on medical center in South Boston. Want more health care coverage? There’s no full-time health ...
The U.S. Department of Transportation has chosen a research consortium led by The Ohio State University to address cybersecurity risks in various modes of transportation. Ohio State will receive $10 million in federal funding and $5 million in ...
Ford has filed a patent for theoretical tech that would, among other things, allow its vehicles to repossess themselves if a driver falls behind on car payments. The U.S. Patent Office published the company’s application last Thursday, February...
Waymo car on left; Cruise car on right. State of play: Waymo and Cruise are the two autonomous vehicle operators allowed to transport passengers in San Francisco without a human driver in the front seat. Waymo is not yet allowed to charge for r...
One of the systems described in the patent enables an autonomous vehicle to repossess itself. Avoiding the repo man could get a lot harder in the future, specifically if vehicles can one day repossess themselves. In situations where Ford's repo...
Waymo, the company behind the autonomous automobile’s you’ve seen cautiously cruising up and down the streets of Santa Monica, has announced it will be advancing its testing to the next level, driving with no human so much as even sitting in th...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Ohmio, a leading New Zealand-based autonomous mobility company, announced that in June, John F. Kennedy International Airport will host the country’s first three-vehicle platooning demonstration...