Automated Vehicles
Connected and autonomous cars are set to run through the 95 and 495 Express Lanes in northern Virginia for the next three years, including while regular toll-paying drivers and carpoolers are in the lanes.
Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board is set to approve a three-year agreement...
U.S. House Republicans expect to introduce bills later this week that would bar states from setting their own rules for self-driving cars and take other steps to remove obstacles to putting such vehicles on the road.
Last month, a U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce subcommittee...
A bird’s-eye view of the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, which will connect Maine to New Hampshire.
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Up in salmon countryby Brian W. Budzynski, Managing Editor
“Engineering used to be about mobility, but now it’s more about reliability and safety. Speed is not a primary concern for us.”
“Us” being the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT), as exemplified by Chief Engineer Joyce...
Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed a bill that allows the testing of self-driving cars on Texas roads and highways without a driver behind the wheel.
There was nothing in existing law that banned autonomous vehicles from Texas roads. Google has been testing them since 2015 in Austin, and Arlington...
A U.S. House Republican proposal revealed last week would bar states from setting their own rules about the designing and testing of self-driving vehicles.
The proposal also would block federal regulators from demanding pre-market approval for autonomous-vehicle (AV) technology.
The draft...
Visit our homepage and take this week's poll question, which discusses principles laid out for bipartisan legislation on self-driving vehicles.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) will soon begin testing the use of autonomous buses.
The department will be issuing a request for proposals seeking technology partners to help safely demonstrate how autonomous technology works in a colder climate.
Testing will start with warm...
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) began installing 35 miles of fiber-optic cable underground this week along U.S. Rte. 33 to aid in the testing of smart vehicles.
The $4.8 million project, which is to run between Dublin and East Liberty, is slated to be finished by October, and most of...
U.S. military-style vehicles will cross over the Blue Water Bridge in the eastern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula this coming September and October as part of autonomous-vehicle testing.
The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) signed an agreement...
Visit our homepage and take this week's poll question, which discusses regulating the use of self-driving vehicles.
Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state of New York is now accepting applications for companies that are interested in testing autonomous vehicles on public roads.
A measure to allow the testing and demonstration of self-driving vehicles was included in last month's state budget. Testing...
In Roads & Bridges first podcast of the year, Editorial Director Bill Wilson talks about raising the federal gas tax, self-driving cars at Disney World and the reconstruction of the Piscataqua River Bridge.
To listen to the podcast, click here.
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Uber's use of a secret software that was used to evade authorities in places where its ride-hailing service was banned or restricted, according to a person familiar with the government's probe, the Washington Post reported.
The...
Public highways in the state of New York will soon be open to testing self-driving cars over the next year.
Tucked into a state budget bill approved by lawmakers this week is a measure allowing autonomous vehicles on New York's highways, but it is limited to testing or demonstrations.
A decades...
Following a crash involving one of it’s self-driving ride-share vehicles this past Friday, Uber has lifted its temporary suspension of self-driving activities in both Pittsburgh and Tempe, Az., and put its autonomous test fleet back into service.
The Volvo SUVs are now back into rotation with the...
Uber has announced that it will suspend its self-driving car program after one of its autonomous vehicles was involved in a high-impact crash in Tempe, Az. The ride-hailing company is suspending its autonomous tests in Arizona until it completes its investigation and pausing its Pittsburgh...
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California, the largest U.S. car market, plans to allow testing on public roads of self-driving vehicles without human backup drivers by the end of the year, state officials said Friday.
The state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is seeking public comment on proposed regulations for...
A study by transportation, economics and urban planning experts has found that ridesharing and ridesourcing services using autonomous vehicles (AV) could shift millions of drivers away from personal cars in major U.S. cities.
“Driverless Future: A Policy Roadmap for City Leaders,” the study...
A new system is currently under development that seeks to improve the real-time interpretation of traffic information on construction sites by autonomous vehicles.
Driverless cars have to be able to accurately detect traffic signs, but current technologies are facing difficulties when presented...
Researchers at New York University (NYU) are developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology that will allow self-driving vehicles to navigate with centimeter precision using Here’s cloud-based HD Live Map system.
For autonomous vehicles to deliver their expected societal and consumer benefits...
