In a letter to U.S. lawmakers, Tesla has defended their advanced driver assistance systems Autopilot and Full Self Driving. The comments come from a previously unreported letter from Tesla’s Rohan Patel, Senior Director, Public Policy […]
On September 30 last year autonomous driving startup Cruise was granted permission to operate test vehicles in San Francisco without a safety driver behind the wheel. The approval came with the conditions the vehicles could […]
Japan is planning to make changes to their traffic laws that will help promote the use of self-driving vehicles on their roads. According to a report by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, the plans will allow […]
A group of 13 different Canadian automotive and technology companies announced this week the creation of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) Canada. Funded through a road safety grant from Transport Canada, the nonprofit coalition […]
San Diego based TuSimple is breaking down barriers and will deliver freight with their autonomous 18-wheeler in a few months. Since late December, the company reportedly completed seven trips between Tucson and Phoenix without a […]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has announced a new set of ratings aimed at evaluating the built-in safeguards used to by automakers to ensure drivers stay focused on the road while using their […]
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has opened a review into Tesla’s public Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta test program. On Tuesday night a DMV spokesperson said the review will determine if the software should be […]
An autonomous shuttle bus that crashed into a tree last month in Whitby, Ontario was being manually operated by the safety driver at the time of the collision. The safety driver was seriously injured in […]
The City of Toronto has halted its trial of a self-driving bus after a similar one crashed into a tree in Whitby and critically injured the onboard attendant. On December 16, the Whitby Autonomous Vehicle […]
A self-driving shuttle in Whitby, Ontario crashed into a tree on Thursday afternoon, seriously injuring the vehicle’s safety operator. The incident occurred at around 4:00pm in the area of Watson Street West and Victoria Street. […]
