Sentences with word «driverless»

By the end of 2011, Nevada welcomed the testing of driverless cars on its roads.

Despite being slower, it's arguably more impressive that the car managed to drive itself around the track in just 2 minutes 40.3 seconds, setting a record for driverless vehicles in the process.

Other companies, like General Motors and Google, have invested in the development of driverless car technology.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the American Center for Mobility, a test facility for driverless car technology for American Manufactured Vehicles in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, March 15, 2017.

«Most motorists won't be riding in driverless cars anytime soon,» says David Zuby, the Institute's executive vice president and chief research officer.

Alistair Kinley, Director of Policy & Government Affairs and partner at BLM, delves into the Government's new Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill — how does the latest legislation clarify the role of driverless technology on British roads, and what are the key questions that still surround the topic?

After testing driverless vehicles in the area, Waymo will move to testing in the denser city streets of the Bay Area.

California motorists could be sharing the road with fully driverless cars as early as April, under new regulations announced on Monday by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Consumer Watchdog has called for a nationwide moratorium on driverless car tests.

Down the line, tests can move on to fully driverless rides.

On July 11NY Tech Meetup teamed up with Blank Space and the City of New York to host the final event of the «Driverless Future Challenge.»

As driverless vehicles become less a futuristic dream and more a reality, our current system — which is obviously based...

Rio Tinto is to become the owner of the world's largest fleet of driverless trucks after it signed a deal to buy at least 150 from Komatsu Limited over the next four years.

nuTonomy, which started a limited public trial of the first driverless taxi in August in Singapore, has said it hopes to have 100 taxis working commercially in the city - state by 2018.

Dubbed the Samsung Automotive Innovation Fund, it'll focus not only on fully driverless systems but advanced driver - assistance systems (ADAS) too.

Meanwhile, traditional automakers are developing driverless cars of their own.

All this talk about driverless vehicles still sounds a little further into the future, but Singapore is actually getting one by the end of this year.

Rather than owning private vehicles, people will use driverless public systems that will be a high - tech version of ride sharing.

That's what automotive designer John Frye has imagined with these epic alternate - universe designs, taking famous F1 cars from the 1960s and 70s and turning them into driverless racing cars.

Londoners face a decade of inflation - busting fare rises, roadworks and a promise of driverless trains in TfL's business plan.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

«If driverless trucks became pervasive, it would only be because they are safer,» he said.

«With so many changes happening around things like driverless vehicles and electric vehicles, the bastion of selling petrol and hoping people will buy something else is a thing of the past,» Mr Rogut told The Australian Financial Review.

Waymo and Fiat Chrysler are readying a huge upgrade to the autonomous fleet, with up to 62,000 new self - driving minivans on order and the potential for driverless tech to show up in dealerships.

Rio Tinto's decade - long move towards autonomous haulage has hit a big milestone, with 1 billion tonnes of iron ore and waste material now transported by driverless trucks.

And while it might seem like an odd match for Google, whose projects include driverless cars, delivery drones and a pill to detect cancer, the key to insurance is having lots of data about people's backgrounds and habits, which is perhaps the company's greatest strength.

You're immersed in Waymo's fully driverless minivan as it travels down a street.

It's not clear when truly driverless taxis will be a reality.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

At this year's SXSW, Waymo CEO John Krafcik showed a short video of the company's Early Rider program volunteers hopping into driverless Chrysler Pacifica minivans that taxied them to their destination.

Florida law allows driverless vehicles.

According to a report in The New York Times, the goal of offering driverless ride - hailing services to the general public by the end of the year was quickly falling apart, and Uber's self - driving cars had a record of failing to operate correctly under a number of standard road conditions.

Driverless valet parking.

The future isn't driverless.

Every carmaker is racing to building driverless tech — and General Motors just opened its wallet wide to get there.

Some transportation experts envision an automated highway system where driverless electric vehicles are wirelessly charged by solar power or other renewable energy sources.

An Audi A-1 was on display and driven to demonstrate the new driverless technology at the State Capitol Tuesday June 13, 2017 at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

In Waymo's latest YouTube video the company shows what happens when early adopters rode in completely driverless minivans.

From driverless taxi pilot programs to cars equipped with self - driving hardware already on the market, autonomous technology has progressed at a remarkable pace in 2016.

«The imperative will be to price the use of driverless transport to manage demand and to protect our networks from even worse congestion.»

Companies like Uber are vying to create driverless rideshare services.

As Bloomberg notes, and as we noted this fall, one of the most important yet curiously under - the - radar car industry stories this year was former Hyundai CEO John Krafcik's move to the Google driverless car program.

Eventually, driverless buses will surely be seen as the safer alternative.

Crashes will happen, but Google management does not seem terribly concerned about the question of who is ultimately responsible when the first major crashes involving driverless cars take place.

Future motor policies may require non-traditional risk management, underwriting and actuarial approaches to account for driverless capabilities and shifting liabilities.

I see that the question has arisen over whether driverless vehicles must perform «merely as well as an average human»...

We are the first driving school in the country to offer driverless lessons after it -LSB-...]

Volkswagen is looking to build test vehicles that it can put on the roads relatively soon, and ultimately both carmakers aim to put driverless ride - hailing fleets on roads as soon as 2021.