Driving a car safely is particularly complex operation. As well as steering their vehicle and managing their speed, drivers must also be fully aware of the situation outside their vehicle to avoid potentially fatal accidents. This makes the recent announcement that UK authorities plan to allow self-driving car owners to watch television as they ‘drive’ comes

Using hundreds of tiny sensors and cameras, backed by a powerful artificial intelligence computer, self-driving can drive themselves on public roads. To do this safely, they have to be very clever. When the conditions are right, artificial intelligence systems are extremely clever. But when they encounter an unknown condition, they can also be quite unintell

Self-driving cars have become increasingly popular in the USA but have never been on British roads – until now. Later this year the UK government is expected to approve automated cars for the first time. There are several different driverless car technologies available, but only those vehicles using automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS) will be allowed on pu

Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev demonstrated how to fool self-driving cars by displaying virtual objects. A group of researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev demonstrated that it is possible to fool self-driving cars by displaying virtual objects (phantoms). The experts define as phantom a depthless visual object

byLisa VaasA popular self-driving car dataset for training machine-learning systems – one that’s used by thousands of students to build an open-source self-driving car – contains critical errors and omissions, including missing labels for hundreds of images of bicyclists and pedestrians.Machine learning models are only as good as the data o

Wake-up call for driverless-car makers to solve this glaring security problem. Self-driving cars are easy to hack with a modified laser pointer. A security researcher has discovered that self-driving cars with laser-powered sensors that detect and avoid obstacles in their paths can easily be fooled by a line-of-sight attacker using a laser pointer to trick