Lidar. Automakers are buying into it with huge sums of cash, Telsa is shunning it, Volvo just bought a huge stake in a Lidar company , and it's generally considered to be one of the more important parts of the self-driving car picture. But what the h*ck is it? And how does it work? If you've...

Uber is refusing to pull its self-driving vehicles from the streets of San Francisco despite the state of California requesting the company does so. On Dec.14 of this year, Uber launched its self-driving car pilot project on the streets of San Francisco, and on the same day was sent a letter...

You’ll be able drive along the highway without touching the steering wheel or the gas pedal within the next five years, promises Volvo. That’s according to a new report from Bloomberg. “It’s our ambition to have a car that can drive fully autonomously on the highway by 2021,” said Hakan...

Volvo Cars is looking ahead to when its drivers can sit back and enjoy free time in their car on the daily commute. At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Volvo revealed that it is developing intelligent, high bandwidth, streaming capabilities with its technology partner, Ericsson, that...

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, and Autoliv, the automotive safety technology company, two of the world's leaders in automotive safety, have agreed to work together on the ground-breaking Drive Me project, the world's first large-scale autonomous driving (AD) initiative. Drive Me involves...