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Uber looks to be serious about its plans to develop driverless car technology after a slew of job ads for experts in the field appeared on its site on Monday. The positions are based at its recently announced research center in Pittsburgh.

Automotive supplier Delphi is taking its autonomous car across the country.
The post An Autonomous Car Is Going Cross-Country for the First Time appeared first on WIRED.

Hit the road. (Reuters/Stephane Mahe) With so much attention being paid to the development of self-driving cars (including whether Apple is getting into the game), little notice has been given to the prospect of self-driving leviathans of the...

Letting driverless cars own themselves and have "offspring" sounds like a mad idea, but it could shake up the auto industry to the public's benefit.

Curiosity arose in the Bay Area this week when reports of unlabeled, tech-adorned, seemingly self-driving vans began flooding in---at least one of them belonging to Apple.

Uber revealed of a strategic alliance with Carnegie Mellon University in order to set up the the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, near the CMU campus.

The biggest stumbling block to driverless cars may not be some obscure technical challenge, but rather Mother Nature herself.
The post Driverless cars? Mother nature may have a few things to say about that appeared first on Digital Trends.

Which scares you more: Human error, or faceless robots?
You'll eventually have to pick a side. Eliminating error-prone human agency from the control of two-ton vehicles is the obsession of Google, Tesla and the world's biggest automakers.

Nvidia touts $10,000 DIY robo-car brains, neural-net motorists in the cloud

Delphi Automotive is launching one of the most ambitious autonomous car road trips we've seen yet: A coast-to-coast drive from San Francisco to New York, using a specially adapted Audi Q5.

The companies developing self-driving cars say handing control over to the machines will make the future a far better place. Once robot chauffeurs are here, they say, the number of car crashes will plummet.

Letting driverless cars own themselves and have "offspring" sounds like a mad idea, but it could shake up the auto industry to the public's benefit.

Simple, hands-off rules for testing self-driving cars could draw new investors to English shores.
The post The UK Just Made Itself a Fantastic Place to Test Self-Driving Cars appeared first on WIRED.