Google and a number of automakers are spearheading the movement to get automated vehicles on America's roads. Self-driving cars are street legal in three states, and Google's fleet has collectively logged over 300,000 miles of time on the road. However, there are several obstacles in the path of widespread adoption, with legal and moral opposition to the concept coming from all corners. Follow this StoryStream to track the technology's progress as it transitions from experimental testing to consumer reality that could save thousands of lives.
Mar 13, 2018, 4:15 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Waymo’s fully driverless minivans are already putting people to sleep
From giddiness to snoozeville in 41 seconds
Sep 18, 2017, 5:38 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Intel is working with Waymo to build fully self-driving cars
Have we become numb yet to news about self-driving car partnerships? No? Good.
Jun 6, 2017, 12:00 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Lyft teams up with NuTonomy to put ‘thousands’ of self-driving cars on the road
Riders in Boston will be able to hail one ‘in a couple months’
Feb 1, 2017, 7:23 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Google’s self-driving cars just got way better at driving themselves
Waymo is way safe
Jan 31, 2017, 4:37 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Uber teams up with Mercedes-Benz’s parent company on self-driving cars
But autonomous cars will be built by Daimler, not Uber
Jan 19, 2017, 7:36 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Watch GM’s self-driving car navigate the streets of San Francisco
At least, it says it’s self-driving
Oct 25, 2016, 10:00 AM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Uber’s self-driving truck company just completed its first shipment: 50,000 cans of Budweiser
Robot truckers, this Bud’s for you
Oct 11, 2016, 7:31 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Self-driving cars hit the road for first public test in the UK
Jolly good timing
Oct 10, 2016, 7:31 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Digital mapping firm Here wants to transform Iowa highway into a self-driving utopia
Oct 10, 2016, 3:11 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Images of Google’s first self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans surface
Grainy spy photos are the best
Oct 6, 2016, 2:45 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Didi, the ride-hail company that beat Uber in China, is working on self-driving cars
What else are you going to do after scoring $1 billion from Apple?
Sep 28, 2016, 10:00 AM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Self-driving cars will have to pry the steering wheel from our cold, dead hands, poll says
Most Americans still deeply skeptical of fully autonomous vehicles
Sep 26, 2016, 8:03 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Google’s ‘worst’ self-driving accident was still a human’s fault
‘Our light was green’
Sep 22, 2016, 7:32 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Singapore’s self-driving cars can now be hailed with a smartphone
NuTonomy joins forces with ‘the Uber of Southeast Asia’
Sep 20, 2016, 8:22 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Self-driving car makers don’t sound super excited to share data with the federal government
No cheers for transparency
Sep 20, 2016, 12:00 AM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
New rules of the road for self-driving cars have just been released
The White House vs. robot cars
Sep 18, 2016, 1:15 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Lyft's president says 'majority' of rides will be in self-driving cars by 2021
Also say bye-bye to personal car ownership
Jul 8, 2016, 7:25 AM UTCSam Byford
I rode this cute self-driving bus that's coming to Japan next month
Apr 27, 2016, 6:27 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Meet the self-driving car industry’s most important lobbyist
David Strickland is doing it for his grandma
Apr 26, 2016, 2:21 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Google, Ford, and Uber just created a giant lobbying group for self-driving cars
Lyft and Volvo are also involved
Apr 8, 2016, 7:57 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Voices clash at first public hearing on self-driving cars
Autonomous vehicles as 'lethal weapons'?
Apr 6, 2016, 11:00 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Volvo is sending 100 self-driving cars to China for testing
Also calling for governments' to modernize their rules
Apr 6, 2016, 3:01 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Amazon and Microsoft are very close to investing in mapping tech for self-driving cars
Apr 1, 2016, 4:43 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Amazon and Microsoft will reportedly invest in Here, the self-driving car mapping unit
Hi-def maps key to autonomous technology
Feb 3, 2016, 6:04 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
Google is testing self-driving cars in a third city: Kirkland, WA
Kirkland, Wash., the home of the 1982 Little League World Series champions, now has another claim to fame: it is the third city in the US to play host to Google's fleet of self-driving vehicles. Kirkland joins Mountain View and Austin as locations for the search giant's testing program for driverless cars.
