selfdriving

In what appears to be the first incident of its kind, police officers recently pulled over a self-driving car with no one inside it. The incident, which took place on a street in San Francisco earlier this month, was caught on video by a passing pedestrian. It shows several traffic cops pondering about how to handle the incident after stopping the vehicle for failing to have its front lights on while driving at night. Welcome to the future. Cop pulls over driverless car (because no lights?) Then Cruise goes on the…

Motorists can sit back and watch TV once self-driving cars are approved on British roads but will be banned from using handheld mobile phones, government plans revealed Wednesday. The Department for Transport set out changes to The Highway Code to "help ensure the first wave of self-driving vehicles are used safely". A DfT spokesman confirmed that in self-driving mode, users would…

Politecnico di Milano-PoliMOVE broke the world speed record for a fully autonomous car on a straight. Credit: Politecnico Milano 192.2 mph/309.3 kph... never before has a car driven by artificial intelligence alone been this fast. On 27 April on the straight of the Space Shuttle airstrip at NASA's…