Autonomous Vehicles
The AV Start Act (S. 1885, Thune) is making its way through the U.S. Senate. Critics say the bill will rush autonomous vehicles to the market, and to the streets, without safety regulations.
Streetsblog USA
The devil of autonomous vehicles will be in the details.
Smart Cities Dive
As skepticism about the viability of autonomous vehicles mounts in the media, one company takes on a publicity stunt at one of the busiest locations in the world.
Digital Trends
Uber announced 100 lay offs this week.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Autonomous vehicles have many evangelists, but perhaps they need more skeptics.
The Spectator
There's a potential consequence from autonomous vehicles that has mostly gone unnoticed: municipal financial ruin.
Wired
A grant program under the direction of Georgia Tech, with support from Georgia Power and the Atlanta Regional Commission, among others, has awarded grants for the development of "smart community" technology.
SaportaReport
How much should the federal government involve local authorities in crafting autonomous vehicle regulations? Officials in New York say they aren't being included enough.
Route Fifty
Japan prioritizes technological advancement to grow its economy.
Reuters
Providing user experience in self-driving cars offers an under-appreciated business opportunity.
Quartz
The biggest state in the union is making room for self-driving cars, starting with four self-driving vans.
Quartz
There are a lot of players in the autonomous vehicle game. It can be hard to keep track of which company is fighting for which share of the market, and which companies are out in front in the race to dominate the emerging industry.
Bloomberg
On May 3, the public could take rides with a new fleet of self-driving cars in Las Vegas.
Traffic Technology Today
Two university campuses and a Dan Gilbert-owned campus will be among the first wave of driverless shuttle testing grounds.
Smart Cities Dive
The new program offers cities access to $2 billion CAD in financing as well as a network of technical support.
Smart Cities Dive
Key features of Ford's plans for a fleet of shared autonomous vehicles potentially telegraph how the first wave of at-scale adoption will take place.
Engadget
It's all about the business model.
Vox
Autonomous vehicles hold the potential to greatly reduce auto crashes. Advocates want them on the road as early as possible to reduce fatalities. Skeptics worry that the public will be guinea pigs during the testing—case in point: Elaine Herzberg.
San Francisco Chronicle
In San Francisco this week, a city police officer issued a ticket to an autonomous GM Cruise vehicle for failure to yield to a pedestrian. Specifically, the self-driving vehicle got too close to a person walking in a crosswalk.
The Connected Car
It's not just the autonomous vehicle technology, but also the company that operated the self-driving SUV receiving scrutiny after the death of Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Az. on March 18.
San Francisco Chronicle
