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Self-driving Cars

The year EVs outgrew Tesla

By Rebecca Heilweil

Elizabeth Warren wants to keep Big Tech from taking over your car

By Sara Morrison

Why Tesla won’t stop

By Rebecca Heilweil

GM dreams of electric fleets

By Rebecca Heilweil

Amazon’s favorite electric vehicle company is now worth more than Ford or GM

By Rebecca Heilweil

Self-driving cars: The 21st-century trolley problem

By Rani Molla

Elon Musk’s problematic plan for “full self-driving” Teslas

By Rebecca Heilweil

Trump issued a pardon for the man at the center of an epic fight between Google and Uber

By Theodore Schleifer

Why we’re still years away from having self-driving cars

By Eric Adams

Networks of self-driving trucks are becoming a reality in the US

By Rebecca Heilweil

It’s 2020. Where are our self-driving cars?

By Kelsey Piper

Tesla needs to fix its deadly Autopilot problem

By Rebecca Heilweil

How a little electrical tape can trick a Tesla into speeding

By Rebecca Heilweil

Self-driving cars have to be safer than regular cars. The question is how much.

By Emily Stewart

Tesla’s 2020 self-driving car promise sounds too good to be true because it is

By Emily Stewart
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Ford CTO Ken Washington explains why self-driving cars are such a hard tech problem

By Eric Johnson

The way SoftBank invests in startups just doesn’t work, says Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Elon Musk: The Recode interview

By Kara Swisher

If they think immigrants aren’t welcome, tech’s future leaders might never come to America

By Eric Johnson

Why Uber will win the scooter wars

By Eric Johnson

Months after a self-driving crash, Uber is being slower and more deliberate as it gets back on public roads to test its technology

By Johana Bhuiyan

Why do some in the tech community support universal basic income? They’re ‘terrified’ about the future.

By Eric Johnson

Automated vehicle technology is starting to show up wherever there’s wheels — including motorcycles

By Johana Bhuiyan

Here’s what SoftBank’s investment into GM’s Cruise means for the self-driving race

By Theodore Schleifer and Johana Bhuiyan

Uber’s semi-autonomous car detected the pedestrian six seconds before the fatal crash, a federal agency says

By Johana Bhuiyan

What Uber’s decision to pull its self-driving testing from Arizona means

By Johana Bhuiyan

Uber is shuttering its Arizona self-driving testing operations and laying off 300 test drivers

By Johana Bhuiyan

Elon Musk says Tesla crashes shouldn’t be front-page news because there are more human-driven fatalities. That’s not an accurate comparison.

By Johana Bhuiyan

Uber’s CEO says he’s willing to lose money on flying cars — at first

By Johana Bhuiyan

This is Uber’s vision of the flying car

By Meghann Farnsworth

Uber’s self-driving software detected the pedestrian in the fatal Arizona crash but did not react in time

By Johana Bhuiyan

Tesla’s latest Autopilot crash is just one of many problems it is now dealing with

By Johana Bhuiyan

The co-founder of self-driving trucking startup Otto has left Uber

By Johana Bhuiyan

A top executive at GM’s self-driving car company Cruise is out after six months

By Johana Bhuiyan

Uber will not reapply for its permit to test self-driving cars in California

By Johana Bhuiyan

Chipmaker Nvidia is suspending its self-driving testing after Uber’s fatal crash

By Johana Bhuiyan

Alphabet will operate a fleet of 20,000 Jaguar cars for its driverless ride-hail service by 2022

By Johana Bhuiyan

Uber says a single metric isn’t a clear indication of an autonomous car’s safety

By Johana Bhuiyan

Police have released the first video from inside the Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian

By Johana Bhuiyan