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Autonomous vehicles

MightyAI

Mighty AI opening location in Detroit as it focuses its training data service on autonomous vehicles

Mighty AI, the Seattle-based startup that provides training data as a service for computer vision and natural language AI, is “going… Read More

Uber self-driving

Uber terminates executive at center of self-driving car lawsuit brought by Google’s Waymo

Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the leader of the company’s autonomous vehicle technology push and a central figure in a lawsuit filed… Read More

Echodyne's Eben Frankenberg

Echodyne gets $29M from NEA, Bill Gates and others to boost radar for drones

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen are among the investors putting another $29 million into Echodyne, the Intellectual Ventures spin-out… Read More

Uber self-driving

Judge rules Uber engineer accused of stealing data from Alphabet’s Waymo must stop work on self-driving car technology

A federal judge ruled Monday that Anthony Levandowski, the engineer leading Uber’s self-driving car efforts, must stop work for the… Read More

Waymo family

Waymo opens self-driving car testing in Phoenix – and scores in Uber legal battle

It’s been a good day on the streets and in the courts for Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun… Read More

Autonomous deliveries? Secretive Amazon team explores the potential for self-driving vehicles

Amazon has had a team dedicated to researching autonomous vehicles for more than a year, according to a report from the Wall… Read More

Portland plans to open its roads to autonomous vehicle testing in a bid to get out ahead of the trend

The city of Portland wants to get out ahead of the coming autonomous vehicle trend by opening up its streets… Read More

Washington state considers autonomous vehicle regulations — but is it too early?

A new bill in the Washington State House of Representatives seeks to regulate testing of autonomous vehicles, deal with insurance… Read More

Nvidia and Paccar team up to develop self-driving truck technology

Chip maker Nvidia has landed another autonomous vehicle partner, this time with Bellevue, Wash.-based Paccar, as the California company most… Read More

New report says increased ride sharing could solve problems when driverless vehicles hit Seattle roads

Over the next decade, driverless vehicles will make their way along Seattle roadways, possibly bringing relief to one of the most congested… Read More

Ford self-driving car

Ford partners with Google and Uber veterans at Argo AI for self-driving cars

Ford Motor Co. says it’s investing $1 billion over the next five years in a Pittsburgh startup called Argo AI to… Read More

Amazon Fresh truck

Amazon patents system to help autonomous vehicles handle traffic shifts

There’s been a lot of speculation about Amazon’s interest in self-driving delivery trucks, and a newly issued patent suggests that… Read More

Audi-Nvidia concept car

Audi teams up with Nvidia to create an advanced autonomous car by 2020

Nvidia may be best-known for video games, but its deal with Audi to provide the smarts for an autonomous vehicle… Read More

Ford Fusion Hybrid

Ford shows off a sleeker self-driving car

The latest iteration of Ford’s self-driving Fusion Hybrid vehicle, unveiled today, repositions the laser-ranging sensors that used to poke up from the… Read More

Geek of the Week

What was the most important technology of 2016? Here’s what our top geeks say

Some of the most important technology of the past year could very well become the story of next year. And… Read More

WEpod shuttle bus

How self-driving buses could help fix the Seattle region’s traffic mess

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Self-driving cars are all well and good for cross-country trips, but what Madrona Venture Group’s Tom Alberg really wants… Read More

Washington state lawmakers grapple with coming wave of self-driving vehicles

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A self-driving car crashes. Who is legally liable for the damage? The owner? The people in the car?… Read More

YouTube Wired Otto truck

50,000 beers on the road, 50,000 beers … Uber’s self-driving truck makes historic delivery

Who needs a team of clydesdales to deliver Budweiser? In fact, who needs a human? A self-driving truck made the… Read More

Tesla autonomy

Fully autonomous driving? Elon Musk promises Tesla’s cars will make it so

Billionaire Elon Musk doubled down on Tesla Motors’ autonomous driving features today, saying that every vehicle produced from now on… Read More

Study: Self-driving cars are good news for aggressive drivers because they’re easier to ‘bully’

Self-driving cars are supposed to herald a utopia for energy efficiency, reduced traffic, commuter productivity, and … people with road… Read More

Driverless car

Poll finds Northwest drivers won’t exactly be racing to own driverless cars

The drive to get people to ride in driverless cars may have more than the technology speed bump to contend with.… Read More

Podcast

A driverless Interstate 5 in 15 years? These tech investors think it can — and should — be done

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we come to you on location from Madrona Venture Group, speaking… Read More

Automated Vehicles policy

Official policy on autonomous vehicles shows federal government wants to come along for the ride

The federal government finally got on the same path as automobile and technology companies that are racing toward a future… Read More

Madrona traffic report

No drivers on I-5? Maybe someday, as Madrona report calls for self-driving vehicles between Seattle and Vancouver

The congested and time-consuming Interstate-5 route between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., provided the inspiration for an ambitious new report from Madrona Venture… Read More

Tesla Autopilot

Why Tesla’s Autopilot will rely on radar (and the cloud) to make driving safer

Tesla car owners are getting an upgrade to their Autopilot semi-autonomous driving software, but this won’t be your standard software upgrade:… Read More

Autonomous Volvo for Uber

Otto and Volvo deals help Uber power ahead on autonomous vehicle strategy

Uber says it’s acquiring Otto, a venture working on self-driving trucks, and starting up an autonomous-vehicle experiment with Volvo in Pittsburgh.… Read More

Ford autonomous vehicle

Ford vows to mass-produce fully autonomous cars by 2021 for ride-sharing

Ford Motor Co. says it’s aiming to mass-produce fully autonomous vehicles for ride-sharing and ride-hailing services within five years – and it’s… Read More

Autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid

How your future car’s virtual driver will take advantage of computing in the cloud

The car of the future may well be controlled by a certified virtual driver that relies on the cloud for… Read More

Tesla autopilot

Feds investigate crash that killed driver while using Autopilot on Tesla Model S car

Tesla Motors says it’s cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation of the first known traffic death involving a driver… Read More

Google wins patent for ‘bus detection,’ less than a month after its self-driving car hit a bus

Oh, the irony. Just a few weeks after Google’s self-driving car hit a bus in its hometown, the search giant… Read More

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