by dankeelan | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured, Safety, Testing
Incoming president Donald Trump’s transition team wants to scrap a car-crash reporting requirement that helps the NHTSA investigate and regulate self-driving vehicles. The group slammed the requirement for requiring “excessive” data collection,...
by dankeelan | Dec 5, 2024 | Auto Industry, Safety
With the average price of a new car hovering around $48,000, people in the market for a new vehicle can ill-afford to rely on guesswork to determine which models are likely to hold up well over time, perform to their expectations, and deliver a safe and satisfying...
by dankeelan | Dec 4, 2024 | Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
With more cars equipped with partial automation hitting the road, safety researchers are growing increasingly worried about driver attention and the potential for these systems to cause crashes. A new survey has a possible solution to the problem of wandering...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
A California state agency said on Thursday it is mandating enhanced data reporting requirements for autonomous vehicles including reports for incidents where self-driving cars get stuck. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is requiring companies to file...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
Toyota is teaching driverless cars to deliberately skid sideways at high speed while still safely navigating a course. The company says the technique wouldn’t be used on the road as part of the normal driving experience, but could give an autonomous car the ability to...
by dankeelan | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured, Robotaxis, Safety
A self-driving Tesla carrying a passenger for Uber rammed into an SUV at an intersection in suburban Las Vegas in April, an accident that sparked new concerns that a growing stable of self-styled “robotaxis” is exploiting a regulatory gray area in U.S....
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