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Autonomous driving

Autonomous driving describes the largely self-guided movement of vehicles. They are not controlled by a human being, but by microprocessors, which evaluate data from different sensors and cameras.

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When will cars start driving themselves?

As always, Einsteinchen has an answer.
Cars and TransportationJanuary 10, 201602:13 min
Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of Nissan, speaks next to a prototype of the autonomous driving Nissan Leaf at Renault-Nissan Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, Calif

Renault-Nissan to launch 10 self-driving vehicles

Renault-Nissan Alliance has announced their desire to build 10 self-driving vehicles by 2020.
January 8, 2016
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Almost autonomous – the Audi A4 Avant

Audi’s A4 Avant steals the show from big brother A6 – with the predictive efficiency assistant.
Cars and TransportationDecember 16, 201504:21 min
A screenshot of a HERE map

HERE taps big data for 'map of the future'

The map maker has announced its blueprint of the future: a real-time technology that will steer self-driving cars.
December 7, 2015
Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2015; Infineon

Future Prize: radar-assisted emergency brakes

Radar-assisted, emergency brake systems save lives and they're finally taking off, bring autonomous cars into view.
December 2, 2015
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Toyota's new $1-billion company

Toyota is investing heavily in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley.
November 6, 2015
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Picture it! Self-Charging Electric Cars

Leave your car at the parking garage and it finds its own parking space and battery charger
Cars and TransportationSeptember 23, 201504:10 min

Self-driving cars are the future

At the annual Frankfurt Motor Show, the IAA, taking place this week, one topic everybody's been talking about is how to make autonomous driving possible in our future cities. Henrik Böhme was at the IAA, and his report is presented by Zulfikar Abbany.
September 21, 201506:25 min
IAA 2015 Daimler Auto ohne Fahrer

Battle for driveless cars opened

Tech firms and conventional carmakers are headed towards a showdown about who will rule the roads of the future.
September 16, 2015

The self-driving car in the city of the future

Engineers are confident it’s only a matter of decades before cars with drivers behind the wheel become exotic.
September 11, 2015
An autonomous Daimler truck drives through the Nevada desert.

Daimler's self-driving trucks hit German roads

The car giant's new generation of self-driving 18-wheelers have been given permission to roam German roads.
August 21, 2015
An illustration of an autonomous driving system.

Nokia sells its maps division

Three rival German automakers are buying Nokia's HERE, a frontrunner in high-precision digital maps.
August 3, 2015
A car coming around a corner with its headlights on

When hackers take the wheel

For the first time, IT specialists have remotely hacked a car and full control of it - including the brakes and engine
July 23, 2015
Google's self-driving car

Google's self-driving car hits public roads

Motorists have been able get a glimpse of the company's latest model cruising the roads in Silicon Valley.
June 26, 2015
Google's self-driving car. (Photo: DPA/BARRY SWEET)

Hacking a self-driving car

Self-driving cars could be vulnerable to hackers.
June 23, 2015
Google self-driving car

Where cars drive themselves

A future in which electric cars drive themselves and be hailed through a smartphone app may be closer than we think.
May 29, 2015
Google Mobil

Google's self-drive crash rate

Self-driving cars run by Google have been involved in less than a dozen accidents over the past six years
May 12, 2015
Mercedes Benz automatisch fahrendes Auto selbstfahrendes Auto F015

The car makes the decisions

The introduction of the autonomous car is not that simple: Who is responsible in case of an accident?
March 27, 201512 images

Self-driving cars

Find out how driverless cars can and will influence our behaviour in the future, let's sit back and enjoy the ride..
LifestyleMarch 15, 201505:04 min
North American International Auto Show 2015

Detroit auto show

The Detroit auto show is banking on continuously low fuel prices and a strong US economy.
January 12, 2015
Mercedes Benz F015

Cars upstage gadgets in Vegas

Exhibitors are attempting to amaze electronics consumers. But it's cars that are stealing the show.
January 7, 2015
Audi RS 5 TDI concept

Are self-driving cars the future?

Audi's CEO has said driverless autos will be driving on some highways within the next two years.
November 28, 2014

Plans for self driving cars move into high gear in Sweden

The Swedish car maker, Volvo, claims it’s taken a significant stride towards making computer controlled driving a reality. Volvo plans to have 100 ordinary people operating these computer controlled vehicles around the city of Gothenburg in three years time and believes this will put it at the forefront of the driverless car race. From Gothenburg, Malcolm Brabant reports.
June 5, 201405:15 min
Google self-driving car

Google self-driving car

Google has presented a prototype of a self-driving car built in Detroit specially for the company. The two-seater electric city cars will be used for further development of self-driving automobile technology.
May 28, 2014
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Picture it! Volvo & Autonomous Driving

Driver-less cars - A vision that could revolutionize our roads.
ScienceMay 21, 201407:17 min
Continental automated driving illustration Quelle: Continental AG

Driven by automotive vision

German car parts supplier Continental is reported to be seeking a strategic alliance with Google and IBM, with a view to research into and the development of automated vehicles. The challenges are huge.
August 21, 2013
(FILES) A file photo dated 5th February 2009 showing traffic in Rotterdam. The Dutch government decided to introduce road pricing in The Netherlands on Saterday, November 14. The mileage charge starts in 2012 with an average of 3 eurocents per kilometer. In the following years the rate goes up to average 6.7 eurocents in 2018. All ordinary cars and trucks will have a GPS device that tracks when and where they are driving. EPA/Lex van Lieshout +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++

Self-driving cars

German researchers are developing cars that can detect and avoid objects and people.
August 16, 2012

The Car of Tomorrow

The automobile of the future does without a driver, but still manages to produce a safer ride than any human could. How does an autonomous car learn to see, to judge situations and to react intuitively in traffic?
ScienceJanuary 30, 201206:27 min

Future of cars

Cars being designed in Germany could cut down on accidents and traffic jams.
November 13, 2011
Cars on a road

Sighted cars

Cars with the ability to 'see' will improve the flow of traffic and help avoid accidents.
November 2, 2011
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inside it! Mercedes Driverless Cars

A car navigating Mercedes' test track may sound like nothing unusual, but who's driving it? No one, because this is Mercedes' fully automated driving system in action.
Cars and TransportationAugust 3, 201104:23 min
The MIG station wagon

Berlin's new ride

As Google engineers and Italian scientists take on autonomous cars, so too does a group in Berlin.
October 14, 2010
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Autonomous car

An Italian project enters its third and final month of autonomous driving from Parma to Shanghai
October 7, 2010

Robotic car

University of Parma scientists pioneer robotic cars that can navigate all on their own.
July 23, 2010