SF News Aggressive Drivers Looking Forward To Bullying Self-Driving Cars While there is all kinds of pie-in-the-sky talk about the future of self-driving cars, one generally agreed upon impact of any potential widespread adoption is safer roads. With safety-conscious software making the decisions,
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Broadsided In Mountain View Crash In another example of what is starting to become a rather common occurrence, a Google self-driving car was involved in a collision this past Friday. However, in a marked departure from previous wrecks
SF News Apple Reportedly In Talks To Buy Schmancy Car Maker McLaren With a $610 billion market capitalization, Apple is rather wealthy, so wouldn't you say it's high time the company bought an expensive car for itself? The Financial Times reports that Apple may seek
SF News Tesla Announces Shift In Autopilot Feature, Elon Musk Insists It Now Could Have Prevented Fatal Crash Electric-car maker Tesla yesterday announced big changes to the way its cars see the world while in autopilot mode, and company CEO Elon Musk went so far as to say going forward the
SF News Ford Is Buying SF-Based Shuttle Service Chariot; Also They're Taking Over Bay Area Bike Share Automobile Goliath Ford today announced it will buy Chariot, the private shuttle service based in San Francisco born from startup incubator Y Combinator, in a move that speaks to the company's stated goal
SF News Video: Uber's Self-Driving Vehicles Hit The Streets Of SF A video posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17am PDT Heads up! Uber's autonomous cars have arrived, and they appear to taking test runs all over San Francisco.
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF News Ford Promises Self-Driving Taxis With No Steering Wheels By 2021 Another major player just joined the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses. The Chronicle reports that the CEO of Ford announced yesterday plans to put fully autonomous taxis on the roads
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Was Victim Of Hit-And-Run Part of driving is knowing how to respond to the irresponsibility of other motorists — a lesson learned by a Google self-driving car last month after it was the victim of a hit-and-run crash.
SF News Elon Musk To Consumer Reports: We'll Keep Autopilot Thank You Very Much Consumer Reports today called on Tesla to temporarily suspend its autopilot feature in all of its cars following the May death of an Ohio man who had the feature engaged at the time
SF News Yet Another Tesla Crashes In Autopilot Mode, Company Blames Driver A Montana state trooper reported a troubling Tesla car crash over the weekend, telling the Detroit Free Press that a Model X driver had turned on his car's autopilot system before the vehicle
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News How Google's Self-Driving Cars Manage To 'See' Cyclists Mountain View-based Google often touts the relative safety of their self-driving car fleet, however in most cases the safety of drivers is what comes to mind. Via the company's monthly self-driving car report,
SF News Uber Has A Robot Security Guard On The Beat In San Francisco Why pay a human to do a job a robot can do for less? We learn today via Fusion that ride-hail company Uber has answered this question with a resounding "don't." The publication
SF News Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits
SF News Man Killed In Self-Driving Tesla Crash News today of a tragic first for electric-car company Tesla, as KRON4 reports that a driver died in a crash that occurred while his vehicle was in autonomous mode. The man was reportedly
SF News Not So Smart: SF Loses $50M 'Smart City' Grant To Ohio It appears that the streets of San Francisco will remain dumb, at least for a while longer. The Examiner reports that SFMTA officials were unsuccessful in their bid to obtain a $50 million
SF News In SF Bid For $50M Federal 'Smart City' Grant, Private Companies Pledge $150M More In San Francisco's effort to become the recipient of a US Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge Grant, local private companies and technology firms are stepping up to the plate, pledging $150 million
SF News Video Shows Tesla Model S Driver Apparently Asleep At The Wheel, On Autopilot, In Traffic Though it could be faked, and no one has tracked down the driver to confirm, a video surfaced on the site Electrek (via Reddit, of course) appearing to show a man asleep behind
SF News Self-Driving Muni Buses? Officials Apply For 'Smart City' Grant In a bid to completely change the way San Franciscans get around their city, officials yesterday presented a vision of a remade citywide transportation system. According to the Chronicle, numerous transportation experts and
SF News Self-Driving Car Engineer Now Wants To Make Big-Rig Trucks That Drive Themselves An SF-based startup called Otto is aiming to let truck drivers take naps on the open highway while still being able to continue hauling their loads, via robot drivers. It's the brainchild of
SF News Man Claims Self-Driving Tesla Went 'Rogue,' Self-Crashed A Utah man is asking Tesla to investigate after he claims his Model S drove itself into a parked tractor-trailer. The Fremont manufacturer, meanwhile, rejects the allegation that its self-driving software is to
SF News Uber Surge Pricing Getting Nixed, Says Engineer, But Company Quickly Denies That A report out this morning from the venerable NPR claiming that Uber intends to do away with surge pricing caught many users of the ride-hail app completely off guard. The piece, titled "Uber
SF News The Self-Driving Car Lobby Is Here, And It's Driven By Uber, Google, Lyft, Ford, And Volvo The usual suspects in the autonomous vehicle race are joining forces, forming a coalition to usher self-driving cars onto America's roads. According to a report from Reuters, five companies shaping up to be
SF News Video: Watch That Google Self-Driving Car Crashing Into A Bus Remember when that Google self-driving car crashed into a city bus last month? As the robot was at fault, it appeared that the incident was the first time a self-driving car had caused
