Select Page

Cruise to Start Autonomous Taxi Service Next Year

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary plans to start running a fully autonomous taxi service in San Francisco next year. Doug Parks, GM’s product development and purchasing chief, told analysts Thursday that he has ridden in a Cruise vehicle with no...

Can High-Tech Methane Detectors Help Reach U.S. Climate Goals?

Methane is worse for climate change than carbon emissions. But to stop it, we first need to find it. To explain how high-tech aerial photography can help save the planet, research scientist Riley Duren refers to a map of Los Angeles, where a pixelated blue and green...

Federal Regulations Hinder Farming with Drones

In the sky above one of the largest Christmas tree farms in North America, visitors are more likely to hear the whirring blades of a drone helicopter than the jingle of Santa’s sleigh. “We fly over a field and, using drones, we collect imagery and create 3-D models...