Bill Gates is a self-professed car guy who finds something meditative about driving. He’s even gotten himself into trouble with his past interpretation of the rules of the road. The… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as metamaterials to high-flying realms ranging from satellite communications to drone-sized… Read More
The legal battle that threatened to upend Uber’s self-driving vehicle program is coming to an end. RELATED: Inside Uber’s self-driving tech center in Pittsburgh, a glimpse of the possible future… Read More
Imagine a future where you no longer have to say, “I think the pizza guy is at the door,” and instead proclaim, “The pizza car is out front!” In a… Read More
A federal judge ruled Monday that Anthony Levandowski, the engineer leading Uber’s self-driving car efforts, must stop work for the ride-hailing company while a lawsuit against him is litigated. The… Read More
As the headquarters for BMW’s ReachNow car-sharing service, Seattle will be one of the first places people get to try out BMW autonomous vehicles. Steve Banfield, CEO of ReachNow, said Thursday… Read More
Folks still getting used to the fact that they can relinquish their driving responsibilities to other humans can now start wrapping their heads around the idea of someday catching an… 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
Driving in the snow can be challenging enough for even the most skilled drivers among us. Teaching an autonomous vehicle to navigate slippery conditions sounds like something that would send us… Read More
Google’s self-driving car hit a public bus on a busy street last month in the company’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif. — perhaps the first incident of its smart cars causing an… Read More
President Obama devoted part of his final State of the Union address to “how we can make technology work for us.” On Thursday, the Obama administration took the statement in a… Read More
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin unveiled one of the secret projects Google X has been working on at Re/code’s Code Conference tonight, and it’s … pretty adorable. The tech giant’s advanced… Read More
When Flutter, a startup that works on using gestures to control functions in your computer’s media player, announced that it was acquired by Google yesterday, pundits everywhere rushed to try… Read More