Category: driverless car

Australian Driverless Tech Breakthrough

Australian researchers have discovered a way for autonomous cars to “see” the world around them so they can track running pedestrians hidden behind buildings, and cyclists obscured by trucks and buses. The ground-breaking development uses so called X-ray styled vision to penetrate beyond traffic blind spots. Unlike Superman’s ability to see through solid objects, however, the technology relies on…


A Secret Weapon for Self-Driving Car Startups: Humans

FREMONT, Calif.—Self-driving startups like Cruise have begun testing their driverless cars in some parts of California in the past year, with an additional feature: Human operators. Cruise majority-owned by General Motors Co, started operating five driverless vehicles in San Francisco at night in October 2020 with a human in the front seat. The minder has…