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
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Crashes Into Bus, Robot Likely At Fault Although not the first time one of Google's self-driving cars has been involved in a collision, the Valentine's Day crash on a public street in Mountain View, California may be the fist time
SF News Lyft Scores $500 Million General Motors Investment, Plans Autonomous Cars General Motors knows that, in the future, not everyone is going to own their own car. Lyft knows that, in the future, not everyone is even going to drive a car. So, as
SF News Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
SF News Self-Driving Cars Will Still Need A Human Driver, Say DMV Draft Rules Coming nearly a year after its January 1st, 2014 deadline, the California Department of Motor Vehicle today released those draft rules governing the use and operation of self-driving cars on California roadways. In
SF News Google Explains Why Its Self-Driving Cars Only Go 25 MPH (For Now) Driving fast is hard. It's also scary. At least according to Google, who in a recently released report detailed the reasons that their custom-designed self-driving cars currently top out at 25 miles per
SF News Google Discovers DMV Is Slow, Self-Driving Car Regulations Are Almost A Year Late When his son turns 16 in three-and-a-half years, Chris Urmson of Google's driverless car project doesn't want to take him to the DMV for a driver's license. Maybe that's a personal anecdote about
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Pulled Over By Mountain View Cop For Driving Too Slow One of Google/Alphabet's self-driving cars not one of the SUVs but one of the cute European-looking models got pulled over by a Mountain View traffic cop on Thursday as it was being
SF News The Self-Driving Benz Is Coming Back To San Francisco Did you miss out on spotting the self-driving Benz when it was in San Francisco earlier this month? No worries, the Mercedes Benz F015 will be back again in two days! #FilmSFnotice @MercedesBenz
SF News Have You Spotted This Self-Driving Benz On SF Streets? A Mercedes-Benz F 015 self-driving concept car — though probably one with a human driver at the wheel — was tooling around the streets of San Francisco yesterday in what Wired speculates was part of
SF News Drive Different: Apple Racing To Produce Electric Car Set your Apple Watch for 2020 because Bloomberg reports that the company has been secretly working on a car to be produced in as few as five years. Sources, though of course not
SF News Google Is Developing Its Own Uber For Driverless Cars Former allies Uber and Google look to be at odds as each plans for a future driven by autonomous taxis. It's going to be a race for several years, but it looks like
SF News Google To DMV: We Can Regulate Self-Driving Cars Ourselves, Thanks At a public workshop attended by state workers, lobbyists, safety advocates, and more than 100 car manufacturers, Google counseled the California DMV not to establish a government process for appraising the safety of
SF News Google's Self-Driving Car Is Already Being Built In Detroit Continuing to shift gears from search engine to actual engine, Google's driverless car prototypes first displayed last May are currently "being developed and assembled at a Roush facility" near Detroit, reports the Detroit
SF News Google's Self-Driving Car Prototype Will Hit California Streets In 2015 Needless to say, the DMV is not prepared to deal with Google's self-driving car, which the company just unveiled in its latest prototype form for all geeks to gawk at. As Google announced
SF News Audi's Self-Driving A7 Hitting S.F. Streets Thanks To New DMV Permit If you happen to pass an Audi on the road, don't panic if there's no one behind the wheel. On Tuesday, the German car company received the first California permit to test self-driving
