Kyle Vogt, who co-founded autonomous driving firm Cruise in 2013, has been named CEO. He has served as as interim CEO since December 2021 when Dan Ammann, who had been CEO since 2018, abruptly left Cruise. Vogt, 36, additionally will function chief expertise officer and president of Cruise, which GM purchased in 2016 for $1 billion. Vogt made the announcement on Twitter by tweeting he "some enjoyable information" to share. "I've little question it is going to be a tough problem given our very formidable plans, however I couldn't think about doing something extra necessary or extra enjoyable," he mentioned.

Uber Technologies Inc. is operating a fleet of autonomous vehicles illegally in California and could face legal action unless it takes the autos off the road, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles said Wednesday. The agency said in a strongly worded letter to the ride-hailing firm that it is operating the vehicles without a necessary permit. Uber said earlier Wednesday that it had expanded from Pittsburgh its test of autonomous...

While we are many years away from an autonomous utopia, where cars pick us up and drive us where we need to go without a human at the wheel, we are seeing the first steps toward self-driving cars. Volvo, Honda, Audi, Tesla--pretty much every auto manufacturer, plus Google and probably Apple--is incorporating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) into cars we can buy right now. As humans transfer driving tasks to computers, it raises questions for the insurance industry. There will still be crashes on the way to that autonomous utopia, and insurance companies want to know who's going to pay. Volvo, for one, has stepped up to say that when one of its vehicles is in autonomous mode, Volvo is responsible for what happens.