GIDDINGS — Most weekdays, weather permitting, drones circle quietly above 750 acres of open land at this site about 50 miles east of Austin, flying laps a few hundred feet above the ground. But they ...

Data analysts at Wood Mackenzie say that 2026 is the turning point for autonomous vehicles, with the industry’s global fleet exploding to ten times its current size by 2030. That will mean deployment ...

Congressional hearings can be dull affairs. But a gathering of the House Energy and Commerce committee on January 13, focusing on bills affecting the auto industry, shot off as many sparks as a ...

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light. Miniaturization ...

Crowded cabins and forced small talk have long defined ride-sharing. A California startup wants to flip that idea on its head. Pliyt believes the future of ride-sharing means sharing the ride as ...

We'll fully admit that car insurance is not exactly a core area of coverage here at Road & Track, but the advent of an all-new form of it covering a rising category of vehicles has caught our eye: ...

Kodiak AI, a leading provider of AI-powered autonomous driving technology, has spent years quietly proving that self-driving trucks can work in the real world. The company's core system, the Kodiak ...

The rollout of self-driving vehicles has been slow and measured, but key expansions this year suggest the industry is picking up speed. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles ...

California-based startup Pliyt believes the future of ridesharing means sharing the ride as little as possible. Unlike similar services, where passengers squeeze into a single cabin and awkwardly rub ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

The big picture: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at CES 2026 focused primarily on the company's AI hardware business, including the upcoming Vera Rubin chip. However, he also delivered a surprise ...

Aumovio and AWS aim to accelerate autonomous vehicle development with new generative AI tools. The companies are working with Aurora to help scale up its self-driving truck fleet. Industry ...