Self-driving cars

Want to relax in your self-driving car? Think again - study

Researchers looked at what happens if a driver is suddenly required to take control of an automated vehicle as in an emergency, and how distractions impacted the driver’s ability to respond.

The interior of a Tesla Model S is shown in autopilot mode in San Francisco, California, U.S., April 7, 2016.
A Waymo autonomous vehicle (formerly the Google self-driving car project) is displayed at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles booth during the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 8, 2019.

Are self-driving cars kosher? San Francisco rabbis weigh in

The autonomous driving systems installed on a test vehicle that drove in various scenarios in real-time on a physical test surface at the Shlomo Group Arena in Tel Aviv.

Will a white light be added to traffic signals for self-driving cars?

 Apple's Stephen Chick displays the Car Play program at the World Wide developers conference in San Francisco, California June 2, 2014.

US charges Apple ex-employee for trying to steal technology, fleeing to China


Innoviz’s autonomous vehicle tech wins Edison Award for Smart Mobility

The win is a feather in Innoviz’s cap following a streak of international partnerships that are advancing self-driving vehicle technology.

 Scott Crage, VP of sales in North America with the award.

Will technology make Jewish law irrelevant? - opinion

Moshe Koppel: “I believe we are now at an inflection point, one that has implications for Halacha.” Here are 4 areas where technology can change how Jews observe the law.

 DOCUMENTING A meal featuring a lab-grown chicken nugget in Singapore, the first country to allow the sale of meat created without slaughtering animals, Dec. 2020.

A Tesla was found half-sunken in the ocean and it’s unclear why

The working theory of how the car got in the ocean is that the drivers got stuck by the beach and left the car there.

  Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022.

Autonomous buses are coming to the streets of Israel

An initial pilot will be carried out by four bus companies in order to pave the way to fully automated public transport.

 IS IT viable for the average resident to forgo their car and take the bus?

Many US drivers treat partially automated cars as self-driving - study

The IIHS study of 600 active users found that 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot and 12% of ProPILOT Assist owners "said that they were comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving."

The interior of a Tesla Model S is shown in autopilot mode in San Francisco, California, U.S., April 7, 2016.

Self-driving cars: The future of Formula racing

The Formula team at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa recently unveiled its new car which for the first time, was an autonomous electric vehicle (A-EV).

 The Formula Technion Team. From right to left, standing: Itamar Ventura, Keren Grinberg, Sharon Goldstein, Muans Omari, Doron Shpigel, Dima Abu Romi, Ayham Abu Eid and Ahmad Rabi. Bottom: Salman Abdalla, Oriel Mizrahi.

California DMV said it would investigate Tesla over self-driving claims. Then, crickets

It's been nearly six months since the agency, under pressure from the state Senate Transportation Committee, opened an investigation into safety issues around Full Self-Driving.

 DMV Director Steve Gordon. He doesn’t want to talk about Tesla.

Self-driving cars are dominating the Innovation Authority’s agenda

The IIA has announced two new programs related to autonomous vehicle development in just one week.

 Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority at KORIL event at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

Intel's Mobileye, partners to launch self-driving shuttles in US in 2024

The shuttles will be operated in "contained geo-fenced areas" where speed limits are 35 miles an hour or less.

 A view shows a self-driving electric shuttle that Mobileye, Benteler EV Systems and Beep, plan to launch in the U.S. in 2024, in this undated artist's rendering handout picture.

Mobileye unveils new self-driving taxi, will launch in Tel Aviv in 2022

Riders in Germany will be able to access the service via Moovit or Sixt's app ONE, which offers customers worldwide access to more than 200,000 vehicles and 1.5 million drivers.

 The New Mobileye Robotaxi

WATCH: Israeli Intel Corp Mobileye tests self-driving cars in NYC

Founded in Jerusalem, Mobileye is the first Intel Corp to test self-driving cars in New York City.

A general view of a Mobileye autonomous driving test vehicle, at the Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem