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Google and a number of automakers are spearheading the movement to get automated vehicles on America’s roads. Self-driving cars are street legal in three states, and Google’s fleet has collectively logged over 300,000 miles of time on the road. However, there are several obstacles in the path of widespread adoption, with legal and moral opposition to the concept coming from all corners. Follow this StoryStream to track the technology’s progress as it transitions from experimental testing to consumer reality that could save thousands of lives.
The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles
Cruise’s robotaxi service will shut down as GM pulls its funding
Waymo released a software update to solve its San Francisco “honkfest.”
A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors
Amazon will begin testing robotaxis in Austin and Miami too.
Waymo’s robotaxis are under investigation for crashes and traffic law violations
In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real
Orange cones are robot kryptonite.
People are afraid of self-driving cars — can the industry change that?
Uber Eats is now delivering burritos via Waymo in Phoenix.
Cruise finally has a chief safety officer.
Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
GM’s big bet on driverless cars turns sour
TFW your Uber driver is an empty seat.
How will driverless cars ‘talk’ to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas
What about driver’s ed for driverless cars?
Waymo’s robotaxis are now available to tens of thousands of people across all of San Francisco
California governor vetoes a bill requiring humans in autonomous big rigs
Cruise unveils a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi, with plans to launch in 2024
Robotaxis are driving on thin ice
Waymo says Austin, Texas, will be its next robotaxi city
Driverless car legislation is still stuck in neutral in the US
On the cusp of 24/7 service, robotaxis face pleas and protest in San Francisco
San Francisco residents are disabling robotaxis with traffic cones.
VW will test its autonomous ID Buzz in the US starting this month
Uber teams up with Waymo to add robotaxis to its app
Waymo barreling ahead with bigger robotaxi coverage in San Francisco and Phoenix
Amazon’s weird toaster-shaped robotaxi hits the road in a ‘first’ for the company
Despite mounting opposition, the Bay Area’s robotaxis keep racking up the miles
San Francisco wants to slow robotaxi rollout over blocked traffic and false 911 calls
Waymo’s driverless robotaxis are now doing airport trips in Phoenix
Robotaxis are now available to hail on the Uber app in Las Vegas
Waymo’s new robotaxi is an all-electric people mover with no steering wheel
Waymo’s fully driverless minivans are already putting people to sleep
Intel is working with Waymo to build fully self-driving cars
Lyft teams up with NuTonomy to put ‘thousands’ of self-driving cars on the road
Google’s self-driving cars just got way better at driving themselves
Uber teams up with Mercedes-Benz’s parent company on self-driving cars
Watch GM’s self-driving car navigate the streets of San Francisco
Uber’s self-driving truck company just completed its first shipment: 50,000 cans of Budweiser
Self-driving cars hit the road for first public test in the UK
Digital mapping firm Here wants to transform Iowa highway into a self-driving utopia
Images of Google’s first self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans surface
Didi, the ride-hail company that beat Uber in China, is working on self-driving cars
Self-driving cars will have to pry the steering wheel from our cold, dead hands, poll says
Google’s ‘worst’ self-driving accident was still a human’s fault
Singapore’s self-driving cars can now be hailed with a smartphone
Self-driving car makers don’t sound super excited to share data with the federal government
New rules of the road for self-driving cars have just been released
Lyft’s president says ‘majority’ of rides will be in self-driving cars by 2021
I rode this cute self-driving bus that’s coming to Japan next month
Meet the self-driving car industry’s most important lobbyist
Google, Ford, and Uber just created a giant lobbying group for self-driving cars
Voices clash at first public hearing on self-driving cars
Volvo is sending 100 self-driving cars to China for testing
Amazon and Microsoft are very close to investing in mapping tech for self-driving cars
Amazon and Microsoft will reportedly invest in Here, the self-driving car mapping unit
Google is testing self-driving cars in a third city: Kirkland, WA
Samsung and Baidu are getting into self-driving cars
Google’s self-driving car is hitting public roads this summer
Elon Musk: cars you can drive will eventually be outlawed
Volvo will run a public test of self-driving cars with 100 real people in 2017
Uber just announced its own self-driving car project
Elon Musk says self-driving car technology still has another 5 to 6 years to go
GM plans to sell cars with ‘highly automated driving technology’ in two years’ time
For $10,000, your car can drive itself
Toyota is investigating cars that hover above the road
Google’s self-driving car isn’t a car, it’s the future
Google made a self-driving car, and it doesn’t have a steering wheel
California DMV adopts new rules for self-driving car tests
I took a ride in Google’s self-driving car
Behind the wheel: a look inside Google’s self-driving cars
US military, Lockheed deem driverless convoy test a success
Volvo speeds ahead with autonomous cars on Swedish roads by 2017
The long road to Google’s self-driving car
Elon Musk says Tesla’s self-driving cars will still require a human driver
Tesla is looking for engineers to develop self-driving cars
Congressman hitches a ride in a stealthy self-driving Cadillac
Self-driving cars and ocean colonies: revisit Isaac Asimov’s vision of 2014
Nissan says it will bring multiple self-driving cars to market by 2020
Google is reportedly designing its own self-driving car
UK to test self-driving cars on public roads this year
NHTSA calls on states to legalize self-driving car testing
Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update)
Michigan governor urges ‘automotive capital of the world’ to welcome self-driving cars
Hitachi’s ROPITS is the self-driving go-kart of the future
Nissan shifts self-driving car R&D to Silicon Valley
Inexpensive alternative to Google’s self-driving cars uses lasers and cameras to navigate
Google expects its self-driving cars to be ready in three to five years
At CES, self-driving cars dance with believers, skeptics, and governments
The Batmobile is real: Audi’s self-driving car picks you up on command
Audi working on making self-driving cars look like normal cars
Toyota and Lexus show off autonomous — but not self-driving — car at CES
Toyota to show off self-driving car at CES
German auto supplier receives automated car license from Nevada, following Google
Self-driving cars can navigate the road, but can they navigate the law?
Auto designers imagine the self-driving cars and drones of future police work
Google hires NHTSA deputy director to oversee safety of self-driving cars
Self-driving cars hold ‘great promise’ for saving thousands of lives, says US government official
Re-thinking car design in the age of self-driving vehicles
Self-driving cars allowed on California roads under new law
California Assembly and Senate pass safety regulations for self-driving cars
Florida political attack ad takes issue with self-driving vehicles
Google’s self-driving cars have logged more than 300,000 miles on the road
Japan aims for autonomous cars in the next 10 years
Autonomous three-car caravan completes 125-mile public road test
California Senate passes safety requirements for self-driving cars
Nevada DMV grants first self-driving car testing license to Google
Easier-to-understand technology could keep elderly drivers on the road longer
One in five drivers would spend $3,000 to add self-driving to their next car
Google discusses partnerships with carmakers for self driving system
Google puts a blind man behind the wheel of its self-driving car (video)
Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
Building tomorrow’s car today: the self-driving vehicle nears the mainstream
