Flash freezing car batteries offers a way to transport them in a safer, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly way, researchers say.

A smaller, faster electro-opto-mechanical switch for light beams could find use in self-driving cars and optical quantum technologies.

To perceive self-driving cars as safe, they have to have certain personality traits, researchers say. Here are the ones that matter most.

A survey of Americans' ideas about commuting in self-driving cars suggests that their perceived higher cost could mean people would rather drive themselves.

What good will self-driving cars be if your ride makes you feel motion sick? Now, researchers are figuring out how to give future riders a smoother trip.

A better understanding of how catalytic converters break down could help pave the way for better versions that last longer and cost less to fix.

A new camera system that can watch moving objects around corners could one day help autonomous cars and robots see better.

Hacking cars could plunge a city into gridlock and it wouldn't even take hacking a majority of internet-connected vehicles to do it.

The new transceiver skips right over 5G to deliver faster data processing while using less power than even the next generation of tech.

A part of the brain called the striatum helps rats make a mental map of their surroundings, research finds. The findings could improve autonomous robots.