Some British Ford drivers will become the first in Europe to have their cars driving themselves as long as they watch the road ahead. The U.S. automaker on Thursday said the UK’s Department for Transport has approved the use of its “hands-off, eyes-on” driving technology, named BlueCruise, on 2,300 miles (3,700 kms) of pre-mapped motorways in…

WASHINGTON—General Motors startup Cruise LLC said Thursday it had recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured. Federal regulators said the recalled software could “incorrectly predict” an oncoming vehicle’s path. Cruise said it had determined this unusual scenario would not recur after the…

General Motors and Ford Motor have asked U.S. auto safety regulators to grant exemptions to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles without human controls like steering wheels and brake pedals. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday published the separate petitions and opened them for public comment for 30 days. NHTSA has…

General Motors Co.-owned, self-driving taxi service Cruise’s unusual pit stop on a San Francisco street last week left onlookers in splits. What Happened A driverless Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt was pulled over by San Francisco traffic police officers. The vehicle complied, made the stop, and then zipped to a safer spot ahead of the traffic lights with the police following…

Someone behind the wheel of a self-driving car should not be legally responsible if it is involved in a crash, according to new proposals. A joint report by legal review bodies recommended that a clear distinction is made between features which just assist drivers, such as adaptive cruise control, and those that are self-driving. The…

California is reevaluating Tesla Inc.’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) test program, to determine if the electric-car maker’s software should fall under its motor vehicle department’s autonomous vehicle regulations, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday. FSD is an advanced driver assistance system that handles some driving tasks, but Tesla says it does not make vehicles completely…

By Olga Megorskaya Waymo, a unit of Google’s Alphabet Inc., and Yandex Self-Driving Group, a division of the Russian-based Yandex corporation, are among more than a dozen leading names in automated vehicle software and hardware. The former recently launched a pilot self-driving taxi program in San Francisco, the latter has been testing its automated cars…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it is looking into a consumer report that a Tesla Model Y was involved in an accident while using the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software. The owner of a 2021 Tesla Model Y reported to the auto safety agency that on Nov. 3 in Brea,…

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Apple Inc. is scheduled to hold another hardware launch event Monday. The Apple Analyst: Wedbush Analyst Daniel Ives maintained an Outperform rating and $185 price target on Apple shares. The Apple Thesis: Apple is expected to launch a handful of products, led by the MacBook Pro and likely the new AirPods 3, Ives said in…