Google is reportedly in talks to acquire Waze -- here's why that deal makes more sense than Waze/Facebook.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants equip his company's future cars with self-driving technology.
Hyundai's E4U concept is a sad, nutty take on the future of personal transportation. Let's hope Hyundai never actually sells it.
Google's self-driving car was on the U.C. Berkeley campus lately -- and the spot it chose to park was one usually reserved for highly intelligent humans.
Self-driving cars are all very well and good, but what if you are not ready to give up the driver's seat? Gimlet Systems offers an alternative: a car co-pilot, which not only avoids collisions but can train you to be a better driver. Its makers expect a similar system to be in production cars within a decade.
Not content to let Google see all the hype for self-driving cars, both Toyota and Audi will be showing off their own driverless solutions at the Consumer Electronics Show next week.
Google announced today that its self-driving cars have logged over 300,000 miles without a single accident -- a step closer to being able to say, "Look Mom, no hands!" without running over your mom.
Nevada has approved Google’s application for a license to test its driverless cars on Nevada’s roads today, a big step for the project and for autonomous cars overall.
The license will allow Google to drive these cars across the state …
Self-driving cars are one of the projects that remind you of the good old days of Google, when the company was more focused on quirky “twenty-percent-time” projects than playing catch up in the social networking space. While the cars are …
We’re one step closer to widespread availability of self-driving cars — at least, if you live in Nevada.
The state passed regulations for self-driving cars today that were approved by insurance companies, car manufacturers, police, and others, reports Physorg. The …
For the first time, one of Google’s much-hyped self-driving cars has been in a car accident, according to auto blog Jalopnik. But it’s actually a mere human’s fault.
Google said the accident, in which a Google-owned Toyota Prius rear-ended another …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Google’s Music Beta first look: it’s miserable – Google’s Music Beta is supposed to provide users with a way …
Google hasn’t given up on its sci-fi ambitions to make self-driving cars a reality. The company is now lobbying Nevada to be the first state to legally allow self-driving cars on public roads, the New York Times reports.
We’re still …
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We saw the publication of two lengthy articles this week about Larry Page, who is scheduled to take over as Google’s chief executive on April 4. After I read them, one big question lingered: What does his takeover mean …
