If General Motors’ vice president of global research and development, Alan Taub, is to be believed, vehicles capable of partially driving themselves will be ready by the middle part of this decade, with fully autonomous cars developed by the end of the decade. Taub made his prediction at this...
We love self-driving cars here at All Car Tech. It's not that we don't like driving ourselves as there's nothing better than having the open road to yourself, but even in the... August 30, 2011 by Antony Ingram
BMW is the latest to announce that it is working on self-driving or ‘autonomous’ cars, revealing today a new prototype based on the 5-Series and packed with the... August 30, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Some cars are beautiful. Others are fast. Some others are incredibly practical. Some other cars are none of these things, but their importance isn't in their looks, speed or... August 24, 2011 by Antony Ingram
Over the last few months the race to develop connected vehicles that "talk" to each other as they're driven along has picked up the pace, with several technology companies... August 23, 2011 by Antony Ingram
Over the past couple of years, autonomous cars have shifted gears: once considered a novelty act akin to life-size remote-controlled vehicles, there's recently been serious... August 9, 2011 by Richard Read
Concepts featuring autonomous driving have so far concentrated mainly on highway driving, previewing the car-trains we may see some time in the future. For many people though... August 3, 2011 by Antony Ingram
The requirements for travel within the urban environment comes under greater pressure with every passing year. We're already past the point at which more than 50 percent of... July 28, 2011 by Antony Ingram
We recently told you that Google was asking Nevada legislators to allow testing of the company's autonomous cars. Now, less than two months later, we're not surprised to... June 27, 2011 by Richard Read
Over the past few years, there's been a lot of chatter about building "smarter" cars -- cars that interact with other vehicles and the environment to make driving safer... June 23, 2011 by Richard Read
While most automakers try to fix the problems with today's tech, Volkswagen is working on tomorrow's. The future of driving, in major cities at least, is looking more and... June 23, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Feeling lazy? Don't feel like driving home from work tonight? Sounds like an autonomous car would be right up your street... ZMP's RoboCar doesn't quite have the aesthetics... May 23, 2011 by Antony Ingram
It's enough to make the car enthusiast's skin crawl. Visions of autonomous cars making their way along the highway while the occupants go about their daily business. If you... May 23, 2011 by Antony Ingram
Recently Google requested a waiver from lawmakers in Nevada to allow it to test its computer-driven cars on Nevada public roads. Could robotic cars be safe on everyday roads?... May 13, 2011 by George Parrott
Google has been hitting the headlines pretty hard the past couple of days. Its Android operating system is still hammering the smartphone market, its new music service is... May 11, 2011 by Richard Read
We're pretty familiar with autonomous cars around here, and we've even been treated to a ride in one of Stanford's robots at their automotive innovation lab, which they... March 7, 2011 by IEEE Spectrum