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nytimes.com May 26, 2017
What Self-Driving Cars See

Raw data captured from a Luminar sensor while driving along San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Luminar Technologies Giant tech companies are fighting over the technology in court. Start-ups around the world are racing to develop new versions of it.
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engadget.com May 30, 2017
Researchers find a more effective way to test self-driving cars

It's tricky to test self-driving cars. Even if you have hundreds of thousands of miles under your belt, it's still difficult to account for every possible real-world peril. Researchers think they can fast-track that experience, however.
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treehugger.com May 26, 2017
Eric Reguly on how self-driving cars will kill cities, not save them

This TreeHugger was so excited when first confronted with the idea of the self-driving car almost six years ago. Even back then it was predicted that they would be shared, smaller, lighter, slower, and there will likely be about a tenth as many of them. (and not common until 2040).
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theglobeandmail.com May 24, 2017
Why self-driving cars will kill cities, not save them Add to ...

In my mind, the model city of the 21st century is Venice. It is a city on a human scale, where you walk without fear of being flattened by a truck, talk on the streets without raising your voice and breathe without ingesting fumes from gasoline or diesel, because there are no cars.
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coindesk.com May 25, 2017
How Blockchain Tech Could Move Self-Driving Cars Into the Fast Lane

A future with autonomous vehicles is fast approaching – and with it, the idea that blockchain could connect automobiles and other Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices is getting its fair share of attention.
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slate.com May 24, 2017
Self-Driving Cars Aren’t Ford’s Biggest Challenge

Ford CEO Mark Fields stepped down this week, a victim of his company’s suffering stock price. His successor is Jim Hackett, the former CEO of furniture market Steelcase, who had been heading Ford’s Silicon Valley–based autonomous vehicle efforts.
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engadget.com May 22, 2017
Pittsburgh is falling out of love with Uber’s self-driving cars

Pittsburgh was the initial test city for Uber's self-driving car initiative. While our experience in one of the autonomous vehicles was thankfully pretty safe, it wasn't long before reports of accidents and wrong-way driving began to surface during the first month of the operation.
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social.futurism.com May 23, 2017
Toyota Is Using Blockchain to Get Its Self-Driving Cars on the Roads Sooner

At Consensus 2017 on Monday, Toyota announced a plan to use blockchain to amass driving data that will help them development driverless cars. The move could also decrease insurance costs for drivers, as well as pave the way for new carpooling solutions.
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phys.org May 24, 2017
New way to test self-driving cars could cut 99.9 percent of validation costs

Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions of miles they would need to log for consumers to consider them road-ready.
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cnbc.com May 23, 2017
Here's why Ford is panicking in self-driving cars: Alphabet is years ahead of everybody

The recent CEO shuffle at Ford suggests it's getting serious about self-driving cars: On Monday, it promoted its head of "Smart Mobility," Jim Hackett, to the CEO role.
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axios.com December 19, 2017
Here's where jobs will be lost when robots drive trucks

How it could play out: It could start with 'platooning:' One entry point to significant truck automation could be to have a second, autonomous truck travel behind a lead truck driven by a human — a concept known as platooning.
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washingtonpost.com April 30, 2011
Self-driving cars should leave us all unsettled. Here’s why.

It is a warm autumn morning, and I am walking through downtown Mountain View, Calif., when I see it. A small vehicle that looks like a cross between a golf cart and a Jetson-esque, bubble-topped spaceship glides to a stop at an intersection.
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karpathy.github.io October 25, 2015
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie

Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things.
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washingtonpost.com April 19, 2016
The unexpected ways our lives will change when cars drive themselves

The expected shift to battery-powered vehicles that drive themselves will have repercussions that extend far beyond U.S. roadways — altering industries as varied as real estate, oil, auto repair and retail. Here are seven of his boldest and most interesting predictions.
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wired.com November 18, 2014
IDEO Imagines the Wild Future of Self-Driving Cars

Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article.
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nytimes.com February 21, 2017
Self-Driving Cars Gain Powerful Ally: The Government

WASHINGTON — Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation’s highways will be safer with more cars driven by machines and not people.
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nytimes.com May 22, 2017
The Race for Self-Driving Cars

Constantly spinning, it uses laser beams to generate a 360-degree image of the car’s surroundings. Uses parallax from multiple images to find the distance to various objects. Cameras also detect traffic lights and signs, and help recognize moving objects like pedestrians and bicyclists.
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technologyreview.com October 22, 2015
Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage.
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nytimes.com July 1, 2016
For Now, Self-Driving Cars Still Need Humans

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Car enthusiasts, after hearing industry executives discussing the self-driving technology being built into their vehicles, might be forgiven for thinking robotic cars will soon drive themselves out of auto showrooms.
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nytimes.com September 21, 2016
The 15-Point Federal Checklist for Self-Driving Cars

Federal regulators announced their first safety checklist ever for semiautonomous and driverless cars this week.
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wired.com September 3, 2015
Laser Breakthrough Could Speed the Rise of Self-Driving Cars

The eyes of a self-driving car are called LIDAR sensors. LIDAR is a portmanteau of “light” and “radar.” In essence, these sensors monitor their surroundings by shining a light on an object and measuring the time needed for it to bounce back.
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medium.com January 10, 2017
Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars

I love everything about self-driving cars to the extent of even taking the Self-Driving Car Engineer Degree at Udacity. That’s why this particular video from the a16z Summit really caught my attention.
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rodneybrooks.com January 12, 2017
Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars – Rodney Brooks

Many new technologies have unexpected impacts on the physical or social world in which we live.
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theguardian.com December 23, 2015
The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code?

Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to choose who they kill when they crash? And who gets access to the code that determines those decisions?
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fastcodesign.com June 3, 2016
Self-Driving Cars Could Revolutionize Our Sidewalks, Too

Self-driving electric cars are coming from Google, Uber, even Apple. We’ll work in them, lounge in them, share them, and never have to park them. And a result, our streets may never be the same. But what they will be like is still unclear. So Co.
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businessinsider.com July 18, 2016
A top Silicon Valley investor predicts that 2 years from now everyone will be chauffeured around in driverless cars on highways

Within ten years, roads will be full of driverless cars. Maybe within two, depending on where you're driving.
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techcrunch.com February 27, 2016
Self-Driving Cars And The Kobayashi Maru

In 1966, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek would boldly go where no man had gone before, telling the tale of Captain Kirk and his crew as they explored the galaxy while taking on myriad sci-fi adventures.
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wired.com November 18, 2016
So, Nobody Knows How Much Self-Driving Cars Will Pollute

Ask the automakers and tech companies trying to build cars that drive themselves to defend their work, and they turn to two key arguments: Autonomous cars will save lives, and, by eliminating the need for a human driver, they’ll open the car to new uses and users.
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wired.com October 21, 2016
Here’s How Self-Driving Cars Will Transform Your City

Elon Musk says every new Tesla comes with all of the hardware needed for fully autonomous driving. He is hardly alone in trying to spare humans the tedium of car operation.
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janhuenermann.com March 3, 2017
Self-driving cars in the browser

The goal of this project was to create a fully self-learning agent, that would be able to control a car in a 2D bottom-down environment. Written solely in JavaScript. The demo is loading and is ready in one second...
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medium.com September 12, 2016
50 Mind-Blowing Implications of Self-Driving Cars (and Trucks)

What to expect from the next 3–20 years of autonomous vehiclesAs Uber rolls out its first self-driving taxis in Pittsburgh, Tesla and Mercedes roll out limited self-driving capabilities and cities around the world negotiate with companies who want to bring self-driving cars and trucks to their cit
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recode.net March 16, 2017
Uber’s autonomous cars drove 20,354 miles and had to be taken over at every mile, according to documents

Some of Uber’s self-driving cars aren’t driving as smoothly as the company hoped they would.
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techcrunch.com September 20, 2016
Federal policy for self-driving cars pushes data sharing

Self-driving cars are expected to radically transform transportation as we know it. The agency today released its Federal Autonomous Vehicles Policy (PDF), a document that will govern the way self-driving cars are developed, regulated, and policed in the U.S.
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wired.com August 27, 2016
Forget Self-Driving Cars. Let’s Make Self-Driving Living Rooms

The imminent arrival of the self-driving car will change how people move around city streets, but they could do so much more. The Tridika is a conceptual driverless electric vehicle I created to change how we use cars in our ever-growing cities, where space is expensive and limited.
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weforum.org February 13, 2017
How will self-driving cars make life or death decisions?

Driverless cars are a key topic at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on Shifting Gears to Driverless here.
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wired.com March 25, 2017
Uber’s Self-Driving Crash Proves We Need Self-Driving Cars

A self-driving Uber car was involved in a high-speed crash in Tempe, Arizona yesterday. No one was seriously injured, and the Volvo XC90 SUV, which was driving itself at the time, had the right of way and bears no blame, according to police.
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nytimes.com April 26, 2017
Waymo to Offer Phoenix Area Access to Self-Driving Cars

The day is still distant when you can actually own a self-driving car, but in certain parts of the Phoenix area, hundreds of people will soon be integrating one into their daily lives.
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nytimes.com April 15, 2017
Apple Gets Permit to Test Self-Driving Cars in California

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple plans to start testing self-driving cars on California roads, the clearest signal yet that the world’s most valuable technology company wants to design or build autonomous vehicle technology.
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nytimes.com April 27, 2017
Daily Report: More Self-Driving Cars Take to the Streets

It’s hard to say for sure when autonomous vehicles will become mainstream, but one thing is certain: In some cities, spotting one is no longer a novelty.
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humantransit.org November 25, 2015
Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?

We're starting to see professional reports echoing long-standing concerns about how driverless cars will affect our cities. This new one from KPMG, in particular, is getting a lot of press.
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economist.com July 2, 2015
Why autonomous and self-driving cars are not the same

CARS are set to change more in the next couple of decades than in the 130 years since Karl Benz fitted a small four-stroke engine to a large tricycle.
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recode.net May 16, 2016
The complete timeline to self-driving cars

Self-driving cars are coming — sooner than you think. But when will we get there, and how will we get there? Two terms for the transition have become standard in the auto industry.
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engadget.com February 17, 2017
Volvo is testing self-driving cars with real families

Picture a self-driving car test in your head and you probably see an engineer or two scrutinizing data... and no one else. Everyday people, if they're present at all, tend to be relegated to the back seat.
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wired.com July 14, 2015
Self-Driving Cars May End the Fines That Fill City Coffers

Before long, self-driving cars will deliver a lot of benefits. First and foremost, they’ll increase safety. Accidents won’t be eliminated, but surely will produce better results than humans, who play an outsized role in the 30,000 fatalities in US roads.
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nplusonemag.com May 13, 2016
The Amorality of Self-Driving Cars

I had been enjoying a quiet happy hour with my friend Linde. He was professing his love for Ayrton Senna da Silva, the Brazilian Formula One champion, recounting how Senna’s death at the track had moved him to tears. Our neighbor had started eavesdropping, and then interrupting.
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creators.vice.com March 19, 2017
Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars

Is it a silly prank, a Pagan ritual, or a genius discovery about the next era of mass transit? In a picture posted to Flickr by artist James Bridle—known for coining the term, "New Aesthetic"—a car is sitting in the middle of a parking lot has been surrounded by a magic salt circle.
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wired.com February 10, 2017
Why Self-Driving Cars *Can’t Even* With Construction Zones

If you’re a human driver, road construction probably annoys you: one more thing clogging traffic on your way home. If you’re a self-driving car, though, it can be devastating.
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nytimes.com May 15, 2017
Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars

SAN FRANCISCO — As the race to bring self-driving vehicles to the public intensifies, two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent players are teaming up.
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businessinsider.com December 30, 2016
Self-driving cars are already deciding who to kill

"Every time the car makes a complex maneuver, it is implicitly making trade-off in terms of risks to different parties," Iyad Rahwan, an MIT cognitive scientist, wrote in an email.
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slate.com October 25, 2016
How Will Self-Driving Cars Change Cities?

In 1935, two years after his death, Fritz Malcher’s 91-page manifesto was published by Harvard University Press. The Steadyflow Traffic System summed up the late engineer’s ideas for resolving a dirty, dangerous problem: cars and humans trying to share space in the Depression-era American city.
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nytimes.com March 29, 2017
Self-Driving Cars Can’t Cure Traffic, but Economics Can

It’s easy to get giddy about self-driving cars. Older people and preteens will become more independent and mobile. The scourge of drunken driving will disappear. People will be able to safely play video games while on the freeway to work.
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theatlantic.com March 21, 2016
How Self-Driving Cars Will Threaten Privacy

Automated vehicles will learn everything about you—and influence your behavior in ways you might not even realize. Allow me to join you, if I may, on your morning commute sometime in the indeterminate future.
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medium.com May 23, 2015
Self-driving cars and the Trolley problem

Google recently announced that their self-driving car has driven more than a million miles. According to Morgan Stanley, self-driving cars will be commonplace in society by ~2025. This got me thinking about the ethics and philosophy behind these cars, which is what the piece is about.
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techcrunch.com August 18, 2016
Uber’s first self-driving cars will start picking up passengers this month

It’s been a while since news broke in early 2015 that Uber was working on self-driving cars. Earlier this year, the company openly admitted it was testing cars in Pittsburgh, but we haven’t heard much more over the last 18 months.
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wired.com January 15, 2017
As Self-Driving Cars Approach, the Auto Industry Races to Rebuild

When Ford executives started dropping in on Silicon Valley startups a couple of years ago, they were met with less than warm receptions. The stalwart car company was looking for help and fresh talent to help it in the fast-paced development of driverless cars—but it was a stranger in a new land.
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theverge.com January 5, 2016
Nvidia announces ‘supercomputer’ for self-driving cars at CES 2016

Nvidia is kicking off CES 2016 with its traditional first keynote. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wasted no time getting to the "punchline," a new computer for cars he's calling the Drive PX2, the follow-up to last year's Drive CX.
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stratechery.com September 2, 2015
Uber 2.0: Human Self-Driving Cars

There was one line that jumped out of the San Francisco Chronicle’s coverage of the decision of U.S. District Judge Edwin Chen to grant class-action status to drivers seeking tips they claim they are owed by Uber (emphasis mine):1
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medium.com October 31, 2016
The Unintended Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Change Our World

Driverless tech as a moral imperative for future generations. Six years ago, Google raised a lot of eyebrows when it announced it was developing a self-driving car. At the time, very few people took the technology seriously.
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bloomberg.com
Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance

The Obama administration’s proposed guidelines for self-driving cars, to be formally unveiled Tuesday, include 15 benchmarks automakers will need to meet before their autonomous vehicles can hit the road.
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theatlantic.com March 26, 2017
Can Uber Survive Without Self-Driving Cars?

After a high-speed crash in Arizona, the ride-hailing giant grounds its autonomous fleet. In the era of self-driving cars, a scary but otherwise uneventful car crash can be huge news.
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theatlantic.com March 1, 2016
What Should We Call Self-Driving Cars?

I’ve been writing about humanless carriages a lot recently. Okay, I know, “humanless carriages” is not an actual thing that people say. There are instead “driverless cars,” and “self-driving vehicles.
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nytimes.com August 24, 2016
Delphi and Mobileye to Produce System for Self-Driving Cars

The race to build self-driving cars is becoming an increasingly crowded field. There are carmakers like Ford Motor intent on doing it themselves. There are ones like General Motors that are acquiring the technology companies they hope can make it happen.
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npr.org February 10, 2017
Self-Driving Cars Could Ease Our Commutes, But That'll Take A While

The promise of automated cars is that they could eliminate human-error accidents and potentially enable more efficient use of roadways. That sounds, at first blush, like self-driving cars could also mean traffic reduction and lower commute times. But researchers aren't so sure.
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fastcodesign.com February 2, 2016
The Secret UX Issues That Will Make (Or Break) Self-Driving Cars

We were rolling eastward across the San Mateo Bridge in an Audi A7 at a dutiful 55 miles per hour, and I was riding shotgun accompanied by two of the car’s engineers.
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phys.org September 10, 2016
Apple tapping brakes on self-driving cars

Apple is tapping the brakes on its self-driving car project as it maps a new route, The New York Times reported.
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techcrunch.com January 31, 2017
Daimler to operate self-driving cars on Uber’s network

Daimler and Uber have announced a partnership that will see the automaker introduce its own self-driving cars for use on Uber’s ride sharing service.
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theguardian.com August 22, 2016
Self-driving cars don't care about your moral dilemmas

Would it be better to hit a granny or swerve to hit a toddler? It seems like a dilemma, but the designers of self-driving cars say otherwise As self-driving cars move from fiction to reality, a philosophical problem has become the focus of fierce debate among technologists across the world.
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techcrunch.com November 14, 2016
Google’s self-driving cars are naturals when it comes to three-point turns

Google updates the world monthly on the progress of its self-driving car project, and this month’s update includes the usual stats, like over 2,230,175 miles driven in autonomous mode, as well as an explainer on how the cars handle a tricky task: multi-point turning.
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theatlantic.com May 15, 2014
The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work

Google is engaging in unprecedented, massive, ongoing data collection to transform intractable problems into solvable chores. I know this. I rode in one this week. I saw the car's human operator take his hands from the wheel and the computer assume control.
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reuters.com March 31, 2016
Where's the lane? Self-driving cars confused by shabby U.S. roadways

LOS ANGELES Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
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businessinsider.com August 18, 2016
Travis Kalanick on Uber's bet on self-driving cars: 'I can't be wrong'

Travis Kalanick has to get Uber's bet on self-driving cars right. "So if that's happening, what would happen if we weren't a part of that future? If we weren't part of the autonomy thing? Then the future passes us by basically, in a very expeditious and efficient way," he said.
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a16z.com January 6, 2017
16 Questions About Self-Driving Cars

Everything that moves, says a16z partner Frank Chen, will go autonomous.
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techcrunch.com March 17, 2017
Laying a trap for self-driving cars

We spend a lot of time and words on what autonomous cars can do, but sometimes it’s a more interesting question to ask what they can’t do. The limitations of a technology are at least as important as its capabilities. That’s what this little bit of performance art tells me, anyway.
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nytimes.com June 4, 2016
5 Things That Give Self-Driving Cars Headaches

Fully automated cars don’t drink and drive, fall asleep at the wheel, text, talk on the phone or put on makeup while driving. With their sensors and processors, they navigate roads without any of these human failings that can result in accidents.
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techcrunch.com November 28, 2016
BlackBerry among 3 organizations set to test self-driving cars on Ontario roads

Canadian self-driving vehicle tests are about to kick off on Ontario public roads, with three groups approved to take part in a pilot licensing program that allows autonomous testing with a safety driver behind the wheel.
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washingtonpost.com December 4, 2015
The $75,000 problem for self-driving cars is going away

To many, self-driving cars sound like a wonderful thing. Roads get safer, and more people receive access to transportation. But one concern is cost — can we really afford these things? To give a car “eyes,” so it can see and drive itself has been expensive, to the point of absurdity.
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theverge.com March 28, 2017
This Swedish ad perfectly skewers the hype surrounding self-driving cars

Car companies are drunk on technology. Everywhere you turn, major automakers are hyping new advances in connected cars, self-driving cars, and app-driven mobility services like ride-sharing and car-sharing.
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businessinsider.com April 22, 2016
30 companies are now making self-driving cars

The driverless car race is heating up. There are now 30 companies involved in the development of autonomous vehicles, according to research from analyst firm CB Insights.
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spectrum.ieee.org February 24, 2017
Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem

Robotic cars are great at monitoring other cars, and they’re getting better at noticing pedestrians, squirrels, and birds. The main challenge, though, is posed by the lightest, quietest, swerviest vehicles on the road.
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nytimes.com January 22, 2016
Self-Driving Cars May Get Here Before We’re Ready

SOMETIME in the future — although no one quite knows when — your morning commute may look something like this: Open an app, summon a car and wait for the arrival of a driverless vehicle that will whisk you to work like a ghost chauffeur.
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npr.org September 29, 2016
Americans Unconvinced Of Potential Good Of Self-Driving Cars, Study Finds

Americans want to stay in control of their cars, a new study finds. According to a study by Kelley Blue Book, 80 percent of Americans say people should always have the option to drive themselves.
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mckinsey.com
Self-driving cars and the future of the auto sector

Joining me today are two leaders in McKinsey’s automotive practice, based in two of the world’s most iconic automotive cities. Hans-Werner Kaas is a senior partner in McKinsey’s office in Detroit, the cradle of the United States automotive sector.
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nytimes.com April 28, 2017
Uber Executive Steps Back From Self-Driving Cars During Waymo Legal Fight

Anthony Levandowski, the Uber executive accused of stealing trade secrets from Google, is stepping aside from leading some of the company’s work on self-driving vehicles, amid a bare-knuckled legal fight between the two technology giants. Mr.
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nytimes.com August 3, 2016
Silicon Valley-Driven Hype for Self-Driving Cars

BECAUSE of reports that he may have been watching a Harry Potter movie at the time, Joshua Brown, the Tesla owner killed in the self-driving car industry’s first known fatal accident, has come to be regarded as a reckless contributor to his own sad fate. Here’s another view: Mr.
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wired.com January 5, 2017
Nissan’s Path to Self-Driving Cars? Humans in Call Centers

“This is it!” Maarten Sierhuis says. “I mean, look at this.” He points to a photo of road construction at an intersection in Sunnyvale, California, near Nissan’s Silicon Valley research center, which Sierhuis runs. A line of cones shunts traffic to the left side of the double yellow line.
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shift.newco.co October 18, 2016
Self Driving Cars Are Not “Five Years Away.”

Here in the Valley, we’d prefer our technology to be free of annoying social complexities. We’re extremely good at imagining a world where a particular innovation has won the day, but we’re also pretty talented at ignoring the messy transitions necessary to actually get there.
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nytimes.com March 19, 2017
Farhad’s and Mike’s Week in Tech: Intel’s Big Bet on Self-Driving Cars

Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week’s news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry.
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theverge.com February 27, 2017
Uber dismissed warnings about its illegal self-driving test for months, emails show

Last December, Uber’s self-driving cars hit the rain-slicked streets of San Francisco with much fanfare.
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theverge.com May 19, 2015
Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon’s top robotics lab to build self-driving cars

This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers, people began disappearing from Carnegie Mellon University's robotics center. At first it was only a few individuals, mostly software developers.
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techcrunch.com March 16, 2017
Google’s fight with Uber over self-driving cars is heating up

Google’s legal battle with Uber over the development of self-driving cars is already off to an ugly start.
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wired.com March 9, 2015
Self-Driving Cars Will Make Us Want Fewer Cars

The companies developing self-driving cars say handing control over to the machines will make the future a far better place. Once robot chauffeurs are here, they say, the number of car crashes will plummet.
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wsj.com July 8, 2016
Roads That Work for Self-Driving Cars

In May, a Tesla “autopilot” enthusiast in Florida became the first known fatality in a self-driving car. But this was no ordinary accident.
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theverge.com May 28, 2014
Uber will eventually replace all its drivers with self-driving cars

Uber will eventually replace the people who drive its cars with cars that drive themselves, CEO Travis Kalanick said today at the Code Conference.
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