Self-driving cars promise safety, but new research shows human attention limits create hidden risks for everyday drivers.

Autonomous vehicles keep crashing into a problem that no software update can easily fix: the messy, unspoken social rules ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Waymo, the autonomous driving company, recently announced it would be sending its fleet to Denver in the fall — and now, the self-driving cars have arrived. Waymo cars use sensors, ...

Self-driving cars did not disappear. They simply slipped out of the spotlight. While attention shifted to generative AI, ...

You remember last year when all those Waymo cars got jammed up in a car park, and they woke up half of San Francisco honking their horns at each other until the crack of dawn? It was one of those ...

Oregon could become the newest state to welcome self-driving cars under a bill being considered by lawmakers. House Bill 4085 ...

Today, the unmanned vehicles circulating on American highways and side streets are a fraction of what executives promised in the giddy early days of the technology’s development. But when will drivers ...

"Right now we have the Wild West. I want to see some rules of the road," said Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

Car crashes aren’t very funny. Unless, apparently, it’s a self-driving car. Researchers on public perception of these new vehicles explain why. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To ...