The city of Portland wants to get out ahead of the coming autonomous vehicle trend by opening up its streets to companies that want to test their technology. Portland Mayor… Read More
A new bill in the Washington State House of Representatives seeks to regulate testing of autonomous vehicles, deal with insurance issues, and potentially create a mechanism for licensing driverless car… Read More
Chip maker Nvidia has landed another autonomous vehicle partner, this time with Bellevue, Wash.-based Paccar, as the California company most well known for video games continues its push into the… Read More
Over the next decade, driverless vehicles will make their way along Seattle roadways, possibly bringing relief to one of the most congested cities in the United States. Or, according to a new… Read More
Ford Motor Co. says it’s investing $1 billion over the next five years in a Pittsburgh startup called Argo AI to develop the virtual-driver system for Ford’s autonomous vehicles. Argo AI was… Read More
There’s been a lot of speculation about Amazon’s interest in self-driving delivery trucks, and a newly issued patent suggests that the Seattle-based retailer is putting a lot of thought into… Read More
Nvidia may be best-known for video games, but its deal with Audi to provide the smarts for an autonomous vehicle in 2020 demonstrates that it’s not just playing games in… Read More
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 roof and adds a lot more smarts in the trunk.… Read More
Some of the most important technology of the past year could very well become the story of next year. And the year after that. Such is life at the leading… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Self-driving cars are all well and good for cross-country trips, but what Madrona Venture Group’s Tom Alberg really wants to see is a self-driving bus that can take him on… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A self-driving car crashes. Who is legally liable for the damage? The owner? The people in the car? The manufacturer? Writers of the software? The state government for… Read More
Who needs a team of clydesdales to deliver Budweiser? In fact, who needs a human? A self-driving truck made the world’s first delivery — 50,000 cans of beer — using technology… Read More
Billionaire Elon Musk doubled down on Tesla Motors’ autonomous driving features today, saying that every vehicle produced from now on will offer the option of full self-driving capability. But that… Read More
Self-driving cars are supposed to herald a utopia for energy efficiency, reduced traffic, commuter productivity, and … people with road rage? A new study, from The London School of Economics… Read More
The drive to get people to ride in driverless cars may have more than the technology speed bump to contend with. A new poll indicates that a majority of people prefer to… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we come to you on location from Madrona Venture Group, speaking to Madrona co-founder Tom Alberg and investment associate Daniel Li. They are… Read More
The federal government finally got on the same path as automobile and technology companies that are racing toward a future with autonomous vehicles as a policy outlining manufacturing and safety… Read More
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 Group that aims to take on the region’s transportation headache… Read More
Tesla car owners are getting an upgrade to their Autopilot semi-autonomous driving software, but this won’t be your standard software upgrade: CEO Elon Musk says Autopilot 8.0 will put more emphasis… Read More
Uber says it’s acquiring Otto, a venture working on self-driving trucks, and starting up an autonomous-vehicle experiment with Volvo in Pittsburgh. The moves by the ride-share trailblazer, announced on Thursday, came… Read More
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 investing tens of millions of dollars in ventures that could… Read More
The car of the future may well be controlled by a certified virtual driver that relies on the cloud for guidance, ranging from directions to software security updates. Those are… Read More
Tesla Motors says it’s cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation of the first known traffic death involving a driver who was using the Autopilot self-driving feature on the company’s… Read More
Oh, the irony. Just a few weeks after Google’s self-driving car hit a bus in its hometown, the search giant received a patent titled “Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle.”… Read More
Drone deliveries and self-driving cars are both right around the corner. Amazon showed off functioning, autonomous Prime Air drones last year, and Teslas are already smart enough to prevent crashes. Today, Google was… Read More
Over the weekend, Tesla car owners picked up a new superpower: A feature called Summon can command the Model S or Model X car to drive itself for parking or… Read More
Amazon, Google and Walmart are all looking to use unmanned flying vehicles to get goods into customers’ hands as fast as possible. However, a new startup announced on Monday by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla… Read More