From his laboratory at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, automated vehicle pioneer Raj Rajkumar says self-driving cars will evolve step-by-step, with humans staying in charge for a long ...

Google's automated vehicles have been in 17 reported crashes, Bloomberg reports. Most of the crashes, which were minor, were caused by the driverless vehicles.

Otto is a new startup from Google's self-driving car engineers that aims to turn long-haul trucks into automated rides that only stop for fuel.

More than 2,500 miles west in Mountain View, California, Chris Urmson, head of Google Inc's self-driving car program since 2009, has a different view: A fully automated vehicle that requires no ...

New cars have so many different types of active and passive safety systems, not all of which do things like accelerate, brake ...

The automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors, and a laser range finder to locate everything around them (these are mounted on the roof). And, of course, they use Google’s own maps. But ...

The goal is to have driverless cars available on the market within five years, said Chris Urmson, director of Self-Driving Cars for Google.

A Google executive said he sees no regulatory hurdles to self-driving cars and expects to see the first fully autonomous cars on roads within the next five years.

Switzerland has become the latest country to allow self-driving cars with traffic jam assistants, which take over the steering of the vehicle under certain conditions in stop-and-go traffic ...

A self-driving Google car ran over and killed a small dog during a test drive in San Francisco -- adding to local officials' fears over a massive planned rollout of the ride-sharing robotaxis.