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 UTC
Waymo’s fully driverless minivans are already putting people to sleep
From giddiness to snoozeville in 41 seconds
- Sep 18, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
Google’s self-driving cars just got way better at driving themselves
Waymo is way safe
- Jan 31, 2017, 4:37 PM UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
Self-driving cars hit the road for first public test in the UK
Jolly good timing
- Oct 10, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC
Digital mapping firm Here wants to transform Iowa highway into a self-driving utopia
- Oct 10, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC
Images of Google’s first self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans surface
Grainy spy photos are the best
- Oct 6, 2016, 2:45 PM UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
Google’s ‘worst’ self-driving accident was still a human’s fault
‘Our light was green’
- Sep 22, 2016, 7:32 PM UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
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 UTC
I rode this cute self-driving bus that's coming to Japan next month
By Sam Byford
- Apr 27, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC
Meet the self-driving car industry’s most important lobbyist
David Strickland is doing it for his grandma
- Apr 26, 2016, 2:21 PM UTC
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 UTC
Voices clash at first public hearing on self-driving cars
Autonomous vehicles as 'lethal weapons'?
- Apr 6, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC
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 UTC
Amazon and Microsoft are very close to investing in mapping tech for self-driving cars
- Apr 1, 2016, 4:43 PM UTC
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 UTC
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.
