While Google Maps is currently one of the world’s top navigation applications, dedicated solutions coming pre-loaded on new-generation cars are also becoming more advanced, getting new capabilities ...

Japan wants to have autonomous cars on its roads by the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The objective is bold, but this is one of the countries that might manage to implement such an impressive feat.

Ford Motor Co. is stepping up its push into autonomous cars by investing seed money into a 3D maps startup called Civil Maps. Motus Ventures led the seed round, and was joined by Ford, as well as ...

For a car to drive itself, it needs to sense its surroundings. Laser arrays build a precise 3D model of every object in a car's vicinity within seconds. Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about ...

Apple is currently driving a tricked-out, super-data-sucking car all over the world, but no one really knows why. Details about where in the world to find the Apple Maps car are here, but beyond ...

Three self-driving Waymo vans have come to Los Angeles to build elaborate 3D maps of the city using laser lidar sensors, digital cameras and radar. Traffic-clogged Los Angeles hasn’t been a factor in ...

Apple in iOS 15 overhauled the Maps app to add a much more detailed design in select areas, an interactive globe, improved driving directions, better transit info, and more, and all of those same ...

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company under Alphabet, has started creating 3D maps in some heavily trafficked sections of Los Angeles to better understand congestion there and determine if its ...

The 3D representations of buildings in Google Maps have been enhanced, with more than 1,000 landmarks across the world available to check out in detailed imagery. The new renderings look more like the ...