Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA
Accident Date:
Wed, 07/05/2023Self-Driving Vehicle
Self-driving vehicles are undeniably the way of the future. Some experts estimate that within 15 years, the majority of the cars on the road will be fully autonomous, requiring no human backup driver. While many people find the possibility of driverless vehicles scary, statistics tell us that removing humans from the driving equation will only result in far-safer roads for everyone. When 94% of of the 1.2 million driving deaths each year are caused by human error, it is a moral imperative to take driving out of the hands - literally - of people.
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Detroit, MI
Accident Date:
Thu, 03/11/2021Everett-Bellingham WA
Will Bellingham be safer when autonomous semi-trucks come through town? (Part 2)
There have been recent accidents involving self-driving cars, so imagine a semi-truck with the same limitations involved in a vehicle wreck in Bellingham.
Everett-Bellingham WA
Will Bellingham be safer when autonomous semi-trucks come through town? (Part 1)
Does the thought of a semi traveling 70 mph with no one behind the wheel scare you? The answer seems an obvious and resounding “yes”.
Phoenix, AZ
Elaine Herzberg, 49, killed in pedestrian collision with Uber self-driving vehicle in Tempe, Arizona
Accident Date:
Mon, 03/19/2018Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
How Self-Driving Vehicles May Affect Future Personal Injury Law
Regardless of how it pans out, self-driving technology will greatly reduce the number and severity of accidents. They won’t be perfect. But an automated vehicle, for example, will never drive drunk or high!
Phoenix, AZ
Accident Date:
Fri, 03/24/2017
DeepScale raises $3 million for perception AI to make self-driving cars safe
The major barrier to getting self-driving cars on the road is making sure that they're safer than human drivers, but perception technology still has a long way to go. Today's news out of California takes the world a step closer to realizing that goal with tech startup DeepScale raising $3 million in funding to develop more accurate perception in autonomous vehicles.
Tesla Autopilot senses crash before it happens, automatically stops car (VIDEO)
My fervent wish for humanity is to rid the world of human drivers. So I guess you could say that my fervent wish for humanity is to be replaced with robots (Westworld was a heartfelt romantic comedy, right?). My hopes and dreams gleamed a little bit brighter today when I saw this video of Tesla Autopilot in action on a highway in The Netherlands.
Everett-Bellingham WA
Benefits of self-driving cars in Edmonds, Washington
There could be the possibility of road re-designs to rebalance the right-of-way and more space for people to walk and bicycle. The data from these self-driving cars must be open information and accessible to city planners and private entrepreneurs.
Everett-Bellingham WA
First Autopilot car accident fatality
The car’s cameras failed to differentiate the white side of a turning tractor trailer and the bright sky and did not activate its breaks, causing a car accident.
Watch a Tesla Model S drive itself through rush hour traffic (VIDEO)
Many of us are too poor to have to own a Tesla Model S, or our rich friends are too electric car-averse, so we'll never know how cool the Teslas's autopilot feature is because we have to settle for borrowed McLarens. Until now! The folks at Slow News Day have a rich friend who does like electric cars, so they filmed themselves driving (and not driving) a Tesla Model S through Birmingham rush hour for our enjoyment.
The world's first self-driving semi hits the road: Is it safe?
Earlier today in Nevada, the world's first self-driving semi-truck crossed the Hoover Dam. Freightliner was given a license to test out its autonomously driving tractor trailer in the Silver State, which has legislation allowing self-driving vehicles, and today's was the first test of the (sort of) driverless truck on public roads.