Cruise Automation is a San Francisco-based startup that thinks it can get the technology to market sooner with something far more simple: a $10,000 accessory you can strap to the roof of your car ...

GM sold close to 10 million cars globally in 2014, more than 3 million of them in the U.S. Google has said its driverless car project won’t be ready for market for five to 10 years.

As it continues to test prototype self-driving cars, General Motors’ Cruise Automation division may also be expanding its focus to include high-definition maps, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Society of Automotive Engineers categorises car automation in six levels, from no automation, or level 0, to full automation, level 5. The highest classification means the system performs ...

Cruise’s goal was to build self-driving technology that works on your existing car, which took the form of the sensor package RP-1 prototype (see picture above and video below).

World View Published: 09 August 2016 Steer driverless cars towards full automation John Baruch Nature 536, 127 (2016) Cite this article ...