Our vision at May Mobility is to transform cities through autonomous driving. We mean that literally — that cities will start to physically change as transportation systems enabled by autonomy become available. …

Suppose you’re at a car dealership in a few years’ time. The salesperson is pitching a self-driving upgrade option. …

As the CEO of a self-driving car company, I’m constantly asked how long it will be until robo-taxis can take people pretty much anywhere, pretty much any time. We hear wildly different estimates from marketers (“Company X will solve robo-taxis in 2019!”) …

The movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High brilliantly captures the angst, awkwardness, and uncertainty of the teenage years. …

A favorite debate around self-driving vehicles is the “trolley problem”: a self-driving vehicle finds itself in a pickle and must choose between two terrible outcomes (see this Washington Post Article). …

I came across an old photo of me during the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, when I worked with my MIT colleagues to develop a self-driving vehicle. Having just heard of an unexpected feature on the course, we were concerned that our car might screw up. So with minutes before launching…

A common sentiment in self-driving car companies is to build vehicles that “do not cause” accidents. Clearly, we can’t fault a self-driving car if some other moron crashes into it. Not so fast. Of course there are cases where one car truly is a victim of the dangerous driving of…

Blockchain, or more broadly speaking, the idea of a decentralized ledger of transactions whose authenticity and authority are established by a community of users, is pretty darn appealing. Cutting out unnecessary middlemen seems like a big win, particularly if those middlemen are corrupt, incompetent, or simply have goals that are…

Ask any rocket scientist: The best way to get a spacecraft to Pluto is not to point your rocket at Pluto and light off the engine. No, you should instead point your rocket at Jupiter, where you can achieve an extra gravitational boost. …