Autonomous cars

Self-Driving Tesla Electric Cars Coming, Courtesy Of Google?

Love or hate Tesla Motors (NSDQ:TSLA) and its CEO Elon Musk, it's hard to deny that he's ahead of the curve when it comes to developing new cars. So when Musk says self-driving or autonomous technology is the next logical step in the evolution of the car, you take notice. According to Bloomberg...

May 8, 2013 by Antony Ingram 12

Driverless Nissan Leaf: Oxford University Wants To Reduce System's Cost

February 26, 2013

Ford Begins Testing Of Queue-Busting Car-To-Car Technology

August 7, 2012

Blind Man Drives Prius, With A Little Help From Google (Video)

March 29, 2012 3

Google autonomous Toyota Prius test vehicle

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even... October 18, 2011 by IEEE Spectrum 5

Chevrolet EN-V Concept, autonomous two-seat urban electric car, October 2011

GM To Start Work on Next-Gen EN-V Electric Pod Car Program

It's been a big morning for General Motors, with news coming left and right from its big media event in Detroit to celebrate Chevrolet's 100th birthday. In addition to... October 12, 2011 by John Voelcker

poster from Audi Urban Future conference, Frankfurt, September 2011

Audi Urban Future Initiative: Smaller, Smarter, Autonomous, Linked Cars

Put a group of urban planners, architects, and sociologists on a panel to discuss transportation in the cities of the future, and you may find they don’t spend much... September 19, 2011 by John Voelcker 4

Remember GM's Autonomous Pod Cars? GPS Has To Catch Up First

We've always been intrigued by the EN-V autonomous pod cars proposed by General Motors. Maybe they harken back to the happy futurism of the Fifties, or maybe it's just that... August 15, 2011 by John Voelcker

China's National University of Defense Technology sent a robot-controlled car on a 216-mile trip

China Builds And Tests Its Own Robot Car

The select global fleet of self-driving cars has a new Chinese addition, and the developers claim the intellectual property behind it was created entirely at a Chinese... August 3, 2011 by Talking Points Memo 3

2014 BMW i3 Moves Us Closer To Autonomous Driving In Cities

Driving is often a pain, particularly in dense, congested urban cores. Start and stop, brake suddenly, stay carefully in your lane, drive defensively, then park in tight... August 2, 2011 by John Voelcker 2

'Dial-A-Car' MadeInGermany Self-Driving Taxi (via inhabitat.com)

Berlin University Showcases ‘Dial-A-Car’ Self-Driving Taxi To Help Reduce Urban Traffic

Here in the States the self driving Google cars driving around San Francisco made most news outlets, including right here at AllSmallCars.com (more here). Heck, I even heard... November 1, 2010 by Jonathan McGrew

GM's Future City-Car Vision: Autonomous, Electric, Two-Wheeler

What does personal transportation look like in a new century, when more than 60 percent of the world's citizens live in cities and the number of vehicles on the globe could... March 24, 2010 by John Voelcker 4