Self-driving cars promise safety, but new research shows human attention limits create hidden risks for everyday drivers.

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by prominent figures and their respective fanbases about what the right sensor ...

Robots and self-driving cars could soon benefit from a new kind of brain-inspired hardware that can allegedly detect movement and react faster than a human. A new study published in the journal Nature ...

If I ask you to name some of the technologies used in self-driving cars today, what exactly comes to your mind? Even if you are not a car enthusiast, chances are you will come up with terms like ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...

When self-driving taxi company Waymo announced plans last month to launch its service in New Orleans in 2026, the news drew cheers from economic development executives, technophiles and local tourism ...

Driverless cars may be inching closer to mainstream use, but there's one obstacle even the smartest algorithms still struggle to master — snow. When the roadways turn white in the winter months, the ...

Urban Economies reflect how their residents get around. And before long, that will start to change—more dramatically than at any time since the automobile was invented over a century ago. The ...

Mr. Gourault is a filmmaker. He interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems. How does a machine learn to read the world? The data ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The self-driving car company Waymo says it is here to stay in Philadelphia, and has ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...