Time is crucial. Suppose the self-driving car is proceeding down the street at a speed of 15 to 20 miles per hour. As a rule of thumb, a car moving at that speed has a stopping distance of ...

Will self-driving cars obey the speed limit even when, as on the Beltway, people drive 70 miles per hour and a slow-moving car causes a backup? As a retired automotive engineering professor ...

With no moving parts, it promises to give self-driving cars sharper, better vision, at a fraction the cost of old-school, electromechanical systems. Solid-state lidar will pave the way for the ...

On Monday, a team from the University of Cambridge unveiled a video featuring a fleet of mini robot cars capable of autonomously ... to take full advantage of self-driving tech.