EU decides you will not own your self-driving car data
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Bought to you by the same party that broke the internet

A routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars saw members of the European Peoples' Party vote down a clause that would protect a vehicle's telemetry so that it couldn't become someone's property.

Trump puts bureaucratic brakes on self-driving cars
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It looks like other countries will get them first

Russian backed US president Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump is drowning his country’s self-driving car programme in red tape.

Waymo loses shedloads of patents to a lone engineer
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Boldly going where Uber couldn’t

A lone engineer has overturned most of a foundational patent covering Waymo's lidar laser ranging devices.

Driverless cars in UK in three years
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Chris Grayling said it so it must be true

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling says that Britain will see truly driverless cars on its roads in three to four years.

Woz rejects self-driving cars
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AI can't cope with the real world

The engineering brains behind the marketing outfit Apple, Steve Wozniak, has "lost faith" that self-driving cars are going to see widespread use anytime soon.