There are some truly bizarre, obscure holidays out there. National Hug-A-Plumber Day doesn't have the same cachet as, say, a Christmas or a Halloween, but it's still a thing. And Volvo Car USA, along with Uber and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), want to make today - November...

Uber and Volvo announced Tuesday that they would be working together to assemble the ride-sharing app’s first fleet of self-driving taxis and according to recent patents, Uber’s really thinking this through. Recognizing that one of the major problems passengers of driverless cars face is car...

Volvo has jumped to an early lead in the autonomous game with a new deal that it has signed with Uber to provide the ride-sharing app with 24,000 autonomous vehicles. The three-year deal will help Uber supply its first robotaxi fleet. Volvo’s XC90s will have the core autonomous tech, to which...

In its pursuit of bringing autonomous vehicles to the road, Volvo will test around 100 autonomous vehicles in its home town of Gothenburg, Sweden this year. The Hain family  was the first to receive the keys to its autonomous XC90 today in Detroit. The stereotypically blonde Hain family will...

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...

Uber has expanded its self-driving pilot program to San Francisco, the second U.S. city to offer the service.  Launched in Pittsburgh this past September, the pilot program will offer a handful of self-driving Volvo XC90s and Ford Focus sedans, each one with an engineer to monitor it and take...