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Building a self driving car sounds simple, but the reality is far more complex. Cars must recognize objects, predict human behavior, and react instantly in unpredictable situations. Even small ...

Autonomous vehicles keep crashing into a problem that no software update can easily fix: the messy, unspoken social rules that govern how humans share the road. Regulators have pulled permits, federal ...

Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.

Driving involves reading minds. You can’t simply treat other drivers as objects. If you want to be a safe and effective driver, you need skills to imagine what others are thinking and trying to do.

Top officials from self-driving car companies Waymo and Tesla are headed to the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday as lawmakers consider the future of federal regulation in the growing industry.

When the city of San Francisco held a hearing last week on an incident that caused hundreds of Waymo robotaxis to stop dead in their tracks, it became a rallying point for labor activists, rideshare ...

Waymo, Tesla and others are racing to build a potentially trillion-dollar robotaxi business. But after riding in both cars, visiting Waymo's San Francisco depot, interviewing safety engineers, and ...