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PC Magazine
October 9, 2010
Mark Hachman |
Google Developing a Self-Driving Car, And It Works Google is developing - and has extensively tested - technology to build an autonomously self-driving car, Google said on Saturday.   |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2010
Anil Das |
Does a Driverless Car Mean Road Safety? Google's automated car brings up lots of questions about new legalities. |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
This Is How Google's Driverless Cars Navigate Tricky Roadblocks In a new blog post, Google shows us how its smart cars assess and navigate some of the trickier traffic scenarios, like, say, a road construction bottleneck near its Mountain View campus. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Self-Driving Cars Will Be The Biggest Auto Safety Innovation Ever Like so many things in life, the future of driving is automated. In fact, autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic accidents by 90%, according to a new report from McKinsey. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2010
Anil Das |
Has Google Lost Its Focus? Or does it just have the cash to burn? |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Coelingh & Solyom |
All Aboard the Robotic Road Train Semi autonomous cars will play follow the leader, giving drivers a rest and saving fuel |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Google's Self-Driving Cars Coming to Mountain View Roads This Summer Google announced today that they will begin formally testing self-driving cars on Mountain View's streets, where the tech giant is headquartered, as part of its efforts to ready the vehicles for the road. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Self-Driving Cars Successfully Avoid Collision Autonomous cars just hit a new milestone: successfully avoiding an accident involving two self-driving cars from two different companies. |
Wired
January 2006
Joshua Davis |
Say Hello to Stanley Stanford's souped-up Volkswagen blasted through the Mojave Desert, blew away the competition, and won Darpa's $2 million Grand Challenge. Buckle up, human - the driverless car of the future is gaining on you. |
Science News
March 16, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Highway Relativity Freeway drivers often get the sense that the other lane is moving faster than the one they're in. A number of recent mathematical studies have shown that this owes to both truth and quirks of perception... |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Logan Ward |
Highway of the Future: Interstate Intelligence Our nation's highways are being primed for a major transformation, one that will bring them into the wireless information age suitable for the wireless capabilities of our cars. |
National Defense
March 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Bits & Bites v25n11 The Defense Department has announced its third Grand Challenge competition for robotic cars, to be held in November 2007. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Another Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Minor Accident, This Time With Injuries This was the first time a crash involving a Google car resulted in injuries. |
Fast Company
Chuck Tannert |
Our Ultimate Driverless Car Report Card Self-driving proponents have to do one thing: Convince people that surrendering the steering wheel to a computer is a good idea. So who's doing the best job of overcoming such considerable obstacles? Take a look -- then take a spin. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Siddharth Philip |
Driving in India: Cars, Corruption, Collisions In India, the roads are dangerous, the lawlessness is rampant, and the highways are getting more crowded by the minute. |
Fast Company
September 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Janette Sadik-Khan Wants New Yorkers to Walk This Way Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, cut through the congested knots of Manhattan traffic with a novel concept: Close some roads to cars. |
AskMen.com
Patrick Rowlings |
6 Small Cars to Look for With rising gas prices and increased urban density, small cars, once the ride of choice only for those with limited funds, are making inroads into the American market. Here's a half-dozen to test drive. |
Popular Mechanics
July 19, 2007
Paul Weissler |
6 New Car Technologies in Your Not-So-Distant Future From navigational systems for the kids to cruise control for drowsy driving to cleaner fuel conversions, here's what's on the horizon for Volkswagen vehicles. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Megan Santosus |
Stuck in Traffic? IT Can Ease the Commute Some methods of decreasing traffic involve heavy costs and manual labor, but there are technological workarounds. For example, some technologies relay detailed traffic information to properly equipped cars. Traffic signals can also be improved. |
Wired
November 2001
Dan Baum |
The Ultimate Jam Session It takes more than technology to solve the world's traffic problems. While Singapore succeeds with an iron fist, the United States waits for the invisible hand... |
CIO
April 6, 2011
Nancy Gohring |
Microsoft, Toyota to Build Car Telematics Service Microsoft and Toyota plan to use Windows Azure, the software giant's cloud offering, to build a telematics service that will initially serve people who have the car maker's electric and plug-in hybrid cars. |
National Defense
August 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Army, Car Makers Push Ahead With Driverless Vehicle Research When it comes to concepts for vehicles that can drive themselves on highways or city streets, the military and automakers have been working on similar paths for several years. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2011
Sarosh Nicholas |
An Imminent Catalyst for the Hybrid Revolution The recent rise in oil prices could spur a surge in demand for hybrid vehicles as prices even out. |
BusinessWeek
November 14, 2005
Ian Rowley |
Cars That Brake When You Don't Japan leads the way in high-tech gadgets that help prevent auto accidents. |
Popular Mechanics
April 16, 2009
Larry Webster |
Does Insurance Institute Crash Study Conflict with Fuel-Economy Standards? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a study that confirmed when two cars collide, the lighter one usually loses. Does this mean that small cars are necessarily less safe? Not exactly. |
Wired
April 2002
Andrew Tilin |
You Are About To Crash After decades spent designing smarter airbags, antilock brakes, and collision-avoidance systems, Detroit has set its sights behind the wheel. Now the cutting edge of car safety is the driver. Brace yourself... |
National Defense
December 2007
Grace Jean |
What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2007
Erik Sofge Render |
DARPA's Robot Car Race Hits the City: 2007 Preview (with Video) A cross between a DMV driving test and a rally, this year's race promises to be DARPA's most complex yet. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
The Safest Cars Unsafe vehicles for 2006: Hyundai Elantra... Nissan Sentra... Kia Optima... etc. Safe vehicles: Ford Five Hundred/Mercury Montego... Volkswagen Audi A6... Saab 9-3... Subaru Legacy... etc. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Automakers Still Don't Get It Car companies take the cash, but skip the innovation. |
Popular Mechanics
February 9, 2010
James B. Meigs |
Target Toyota: Why the Recall Backlash Is Overblown In the midst of three major recalls, Toyota has been hammered by daily newspaper and TV pieces suggesting it has been slow to address safety problems. |
BusinessWeek
March 20, 2006
Dexter Roberts |
Kicking Used Tires There is a growing market for secondhand vehicles in China. |
Wired
December 2004
Tom McNichol |
Roads Gone Wild It's no surprise that the Dutch, a people renowned for social experimentation in practically every facet of life, have embraced new ideas in traffic management. Other countries are following suite. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Patrick Di Justo |
Why Things Suck: Roads If we're going to drive ourselves across country, does the ride have to be so rough? Why can't we build better roads? |
Popular Mechanics
July 10, 2008
Jim McCraw |
7 Robot Cars and Driverless Tech Rigs Coming Soon From VW Volkswagen is tantalizingly close to meeting DARPA's robotic car challenge and to starting volume production of the driverless car technology. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Bill Howard |
The Technology Cocoon A technology package for cars with active cruise control, lane departure warning, and backup sonar and cameras that beep as you approach objects. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Bob Parks |
Robot Buses Pull In to San Diego's Fastest Lane In response to heavy traffic loads, San Diego Country is working on a dedicated truck and bus lanes with lane-keeping sensors and adaptive cruise controls. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
Ben Stewart |
Is Your Car Smarter Than You Are? The computing power of the family car has grown exponentially. The question is: Do we like it? |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Daniel H. Wilson |
DARPA's Tough New Robot Road Test A robot expert explains why DARPA's previous robotic races were GPS-guided cakewalks compared to the upcoming Urban Challenge. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Toyota Launching $1 Billion AI Lab . . . And It's Not Just For Cars The Toyota Research Institute will focus on building artificial intelligence products for automobiles and the home. |
InternetNews
January 2, 2004
Jim Wagner |
CA Drivers: Eyes Off That Laptop If you're a California driving Web-surfer, it'd better be in the back seat after passage of AB 301. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Where's My Chevette? The economic argument against investing in oil companies suggests that high gasoline prices will cause demand to fall and prices at the pump to recede. But automakers know better and are giving the consumer just what they want -- style and muscle. |
National Defense
May 2012
Eric Beidel |
Wanted: Driverless Vehicles for Army Security Patrols The Army is conducting market research into technology that would allow installations to send out unmanned vehicles on 24/7 patrols. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
Alex Planes |
Google Builds the Connected World of Tomorrow Big G has some big ideas that could change your life. |
Health
May 2008
Dana Sullivan Kilroy |
Check Your Car's Safety Rating See how your car compares. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Mike Allen |
Hyundai Azera Limited: Long-Term Test -- Third Report Not too long ago, we warned people not to buy Korean cars. That's changed. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2007
John Rosevear |
The Best Used Cars: Part 1 How to find the best used cars: Create a list of candidates... Try some on for size... etc. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2013
Farhad Manjoo |
Smart Cars: Fill 'Er Up With Apps We have to figure out a way to harness the people who want to make our cars better. |
PC Magazine
January 7, 2006
Bill Howard |
Blind Spots? No More! Delphi device would keep sudden lane-changers from impacting their fellow motorist. |
