Self-driving cars are becoming more common, but there are still improvements to be had in terms of safety and efficiency.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sasha Lekach covers electric vehicles and vehicle technology. For improved autonomous driving, electric automaker Rivian is ...

The new sensors can capture images and lidar distance data at the same time in the same hardware, eliminating the need for ...

Modern cars are equipped with sensors to support driver assistance systems and safety features. Kinetic is a startup that provides sensor calibration after a car is involved in a collision. Kinetic ...

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang unveils the autonomous vehicle AI platform Alpamayo at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 5 2026. B.J. Warnick/Newscom/Alamy Autonomous vehicles have made ...

Uber is developing a plan to install sensors in some drivers’ cars to collect real-world data for autonomous vehicle developers, expanding its current AV Labs program. CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says ...

After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted to other industries, like managing shipyards and city traffic. By ...

Self-driving cars struggle when the weather turns bad. But a UK-EU partnership is getting to grips with the problem, funded by Europe’s flagship research programme, Horizon Europe Huddled round a ...