Google has a six-year head start on road tests of automated vehicles over companies including Uber, which last month kicked off free public rides of its prototype self-driving cars in Pittsburgh.

Google In Your Car Automated or not, countless cars already have Google inside. Way back in 2007, Google and BMW launched in-car Google search, giving drivers “access to all the information from ...

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 ...

. You knew this was going to happen at some point. A Google automated car with that spinny thing at the top was in what looks like a minor rear ending incident near Google HQ in Mountainview ...

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.

What the tech giant plans to do with its driverless cars is shrouded in mystery, but it could very well deliver a once-in-a-generation breakthrough.

Google acquired a new patent that illustrates the idea of equipping automated cars with external air bags to protect nearby pedestrians in case of an accident.

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 ...

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.

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 time to ...