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Who will win the self-driving race? Here are eight possibilities

Enlarge (credit: Emanuel M Schwermer) The self-driving technology industry is in a strange state right now. A number of companies have been pouring millions of dollars into self-driving technology for years, and many of them have prototype self-driving vehicles that seem to work. Yet I know of only one company—Waymo—that has launched a fully driverless […]

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Trump team modernizes car safety regulations for the driverless era

Enlarge / Nuro makes small electric vehicles for hauling cargo. They are designed to be street-legal but have no room for passengers. (credit: Nuro) Until this week, the federal government’s car safety regulations were based on two assumptions that probably seemed self-evident when they were written: that every car will have people inside, and that […]