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Part of a series on Self-driving cars & self-driving vehicles Enablers Assured clear distance ahead Autonomous racing Datasets History Impact Lane centering Pedestrian crash avoidance mitigation Vehicle infrastructure integration Topics Automatic parking Platoon Regulation Liability Robotaxi Self-driving truck Tunnel problem Related topics Automatic train operation Unmanned surface vehicle ...
Self-driving cars have been a hot topic for years. In 2024, the levels of automation have advanced significantly. With more companies investing in autonomous vehicle technologies, consumers now ...
In March 2018, the death of Elaine Herzberg in Arizona was the first reported fatal crash involving a self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian in the United States. [132] Later in the same month, San Francisco police issued a ticket to the passenger of a self-driving car that had failed to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. [133]
In October 2014, Tesla offered customers the ability to pre-purchase Autopilot [12] [28] [29] that was not designed for self-driving. [30] Initial versions were built in partnership with Mobileye, [31] but Mobileye ended the partnership in July 2016 because Tesla "was pushing the envelope in terms of safety".
Increases in the use of autonomous car technologies (e.g., advanced driver-assistance systems) are causing incremental shifts in the control of driving. [1] Liability for incidents involving self-driving cars is a developing area of law and policy that will determine who is liable when a car causes physical damage to persons or property. [2]
View of the computers in the cargo area of Stanley. The car began as a standard European diesel model Volkswagen Touareg provided by Volkswagen's ERL for the competition. The Stanford Racing Team chose the Touareg for its "drive by wire" control system which could be adapted (and was done so by the ERL) to be run directly from an onboard computer without the use of actuators or servo motors ...
Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer. [1] In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016. [2] [3] In 2016, he co-founded and sold Otto, an autonomous trucking company, to Uber Technologies.
John F. Krafcik (born September 18, 1961) was the CEO of Waymo from 2015 to 2021. Krafcik was the former president of TrueCar and president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America.He was named CEO of Google's self-driving car project in September 2015. [1]