Author – The Durango Herald

Self-driving cars: Not ready yet, but new rules open a path

LOS ANGELES – Although consumers can’t yet get a self-driving car for themselves, the technology’s long and windy road to market is getting shorter. A public rollout is not immine...

DATE: Oct 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California decides self-driving cars will need to have driver behind wheel

LOS ANGELES – California unveiled precedent-setting draft rules Wednesday that would slow the public’s access to self-driving cars of the future until regulators are confident the technology...

DATE: Dec 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California reveals details of self-driving car accidents

LOS ANGELES – California state officials released reports Thursday detailing six accidents that involved self-driving car prototypes, reversing a policy that had shielded details of how the ...

DATE: Jun 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Accident reports sought on self-driving vehicles

Google reports 11 ‘minor’ test incidents

DATE: May 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Car computer hackers, begone!

Automakers aim to build hack-proof vehicles

DATE: Nov 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Driverless cars hit an ethical road bump

How vehicles react in accidents raising moral questions

DATE: Nov 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Google drove hard to get driverless-car law

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop cars driven by computers – not people – became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be read...

DATE: Jun 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Google to build cars that don’t need drivers

LOS ANGELES – Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel. Actually, the cars wouldn’t eve...

DATE: May 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Driverless cars sidestep cyclists

Self-driving vehicles years from large-scale production

DATE: Apr 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California mulls how to regulate driverless cars

LOS ANGELES – Sooner or later, consumers will be able to buy cars that rely on computers – not the owner – to do the driving. Though the technology is still being tested, the day ...

DATE: Mar 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal agency shuts 52 unsafe bus companies

LOS ANGELES – Federal bus safety regulators have shut down 52 companies in what they describe as a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe outfits, including lines whose drivers had suspended l...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Calif. gunman’s life comes to bloody end

RIDGECREST, Calif. – Sergio Munoz was known around this small desert city to acquaintances as a personable dad, and to police for his long rap sheet. In recent weeks, he began los...

DATE: Oct 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World