Terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Every road user trusts the cars around them not to be a threat. Does that trust still stand when a car is driving itself?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

 

First responders aren't happy about the prospect of more self-driving cars : NPR

San Francisco's police and fire departments are urging the regulator to say no – they say they've tallied 55 incidents where self-driving cars have impeded rescue operations in just the last six months. The incidents include running through yellow emergency tape, blocking firehouse driveways and refusing to move for first responders...

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193272085/san-francisco-has-lots-of-self-driving-cars-theyre-driving-first-responders-nuts

Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars - The New York Times

Some residents have responded to Waymo's autonomous vehicle project by slashing tires, pelting vans with rocks and even drawing a gun on a vehicle. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html

Who needs self driving cars when humans are getting smarter - funny

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/8cveaj/who_needs_self_driving_cars_when_humans_are/

Pulling Out Of Car Ownership (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

One thing about Americans – they own cars, right? Well, maybe not for long. The U.S. auto industry is on high alert right now over trends that say car ownership may be headed for the scrapyard. In years to come, more and more Americans will hail a ride – a ride with a driver, or a driverless car, an autonomous vehicle – to take them where they want to go. They may own a fraction of a car, or subscribe to car time. It’s a whole new world, and it’s coming. This hour On Point: Mobility, without ownership. -- Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/06/23/pulling-out-of-car-ownership

Trump’s transportation secretary made a huge mistake about self-driving cars

Definitely do not leave your seat while using driver assistance features ...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15533072/trump-transportation-secretary-self-driving-cars-mistake

Meet 'Professor X,' the AI genius who left his lab at Princeton to beat Uber, Google, and Intel at their own game (Business Insider)

In the spring of 2016, Dr. Jianxiong Xiao — affectionately known among students and staff as "Professor X" — said goodbye to his plum professorship at Princeton and his post as the founding director of the school's Computer Vision and Robotics Labs. By the fall of that same year, Xiao, known as something of a risk-taker, had moved himself and his family from New Jersey to Silicon Valley, and raised some modest seed funding for his new startup focused on self-driving cars....
http://www.businessinsider.com/autox-ceo-jianxiong-xiao-interview-2017-3

Trump administration is reevaluating Obama era rules for self-driving cars (The Verge)

Transportation secretary issues a challenge to Detroit, Silicon Valley ...
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14753696/trump-dot-elaine-chao-obama-self-driving-car-guidelines

Driverless Cars: Save Passengers Or Save Pedestrians? The Dilemma Of How Moral Should We Make Our Robots

There's an impending social dilemma threatening the progress of driverless cars. People's ideas on AI morality could cause regulators to step in....
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/166739/20160624/driverless-cars-save-passengers-or-save-pedestrians-the-dilemma-of-how-moral-should-we-make-our-robots.htm

Transform your car into a self-driving car for $1,000

George Hotz, the programmer famous for cracking the iPhone and PlayStation 3, has turned his attention to building self-driving cars — and we got a ride....