The New York Times

Where Did All the Affordable Cars Go?

America is a car country. For decades, millions of families relied on inexpensive cars to get from home to work and school. But over time, as carmakers shifted towards luxury vehicles, the budget car ...
TechCrunch

A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage

The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong there. While humans are responsible for killing ...
CNET

Uber and Volkswagen's Self-Driving Vans Are Hitting the Streets. Here's When You Can Ride

Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...
WTVF

Waymo officially launches its first self-driving car rides across Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Self-driving cars are officially picking up passengers in Nashville since Waymo launched its first public rides in the city this week. The company is starting with a ...
Austin American-Statesman

Self-driving cars still rely on humans — but how often remains unclear

Self-driving vehicle companies, including some operating in Texas, aren’t saying how frequently human remote assistance operators intervene while their vehicles are on the road. The questions arise as ...
WKRN-TV

Waymo opens self-driving cars to the public in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As of Tuesday, Nashville is the 11th city in the U.S. where you can hop into a rideshare without a driver. Waymo is now offering rides to the public. “We are here to make ...
FOX 7 Austin KTBC

Mueller residents upset after self-driving car runs over, kills duck

Mueller residents are upset after a self-driving car ran over and killed a duck Many in the community were saddened by the news and want to see more changes moving forward Avride responds to the ...
Austin American-Statesman

Avride pauses some testing after self-driving vehicle kills duck

A self-driving vehicle company has temporarily stopped testing on some Austin streets after one of its vehicles struck and killed a duck last week. A person who said they witnessed the incident wrote ...
New York Post

Tesla cleared by feds in probe of remote self-driving feature

Elon Musk-run Tesla is off the hook for at least one federal investigation of its self-driving cars after a 15-month probe of a feature that allows owners to remotely drive their cars short distances ...
Interesting Engineering

US-led team introduces framework to make networks of robots, self-driving cars safer

An illustration of how adversarial agents could misreport sensor readings or spoof data to strategically alter the behavior of connected vehicle fleets.Harvard John A. Paulson As modern technology ...
GitHub

CARLA Simulator

CARLA is an open-source simulator for autonomous driving research. CARLA has been developed from the ground up to support development, training, and validation of autonomous driving systems. In ...
NewsNation

Self-driving car ‘steamrolled’ over duck, killing it: Witness

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Autonomous vehicles operated by Avride are under review after a witness reported that one of the company’s self-driving autos struck and killed a duck near Mueller Lake Park earlier ...