autonomous driving

Toyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US

TOKYO—Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it’s setting up in Silicon Valley to develop artificial intelligence and robotics, underlining the Japanese automaker’s determination to lead in futuristic cars that drive themselves and apply the…

Google’s new self-driving cars cruising Silicon Valley roads

SAN FRANCISCO, United States — The latest models of Google’s self-driving cars are now cruising the streets near the Internet company’s Silicon Valley headquarters as an ambitious project to transform the way people get around shifts into…

Filipino turns ordinary car into autonomous vehicle

SINGAPORE—A Filipino professor in Singapore has converted an ordinary car and two buggies into driverless vehicles, and is now working on an autonomous car system that may soon be part of the city-state’s public transportation system. Marcelo…