Francie Diep
at 06:39 AM Jun 19 2014
Cars // 

It may be another decade before most ordinary folks use self-driving cars to get around town. But some of us may have already seen them around town, at least: Over the past few years, car companies and other research groups have begun testing their autonomous car technology on public roads, in normal traffic. Here, we've collected news reports of public tests of self-driving cars. Germany's Autobahn and California's Pacific Coast Highway are just a couple of the world's roads that robot cars have traversed.

Rebecca Boyle
at 03:57 AM Sep 29 2011
Cars // 

Barely a day goes by without a new development in smart car technology, from computerised cars to driving directions. Now researchers in Switzerland are developing cars with the ultimate gift of intelligence: The ability to read our minds.

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