The new measures will allow companies developing autonomous vehicles to apply for exemptions from certain federal safety standards.

Tesla has taken a significant step toward its long-promised autonomous future with the launch of supervised robotaxi tests in ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday announced it was exempting U.S. autonomous vehicle developers from federal safety standards, expanding an exemption that had previously ...

Ahead of Tesla's planned launch of a robotaxi service in Austin this June, the company is testing ride-hailing with employees ...

The Trump administration will make it easier to deploy self-driving cars on US roads and loosen crash reporting requirements, ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy on Thursday unveiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) ...

The NHTSA also expanded its existing Automated Vehicle Exemption Program to include U.S.-made vehicles. It previously only included imported vehicles. The program provides exemption procedures to ...

The move would aim to make it easier for autonomous vehicles to hit the roads, but keeps the requirement to report safety incidents.

The announcement comes two days after Elon Musk assured investors that Tesla will launch a fully autonomous taxi service in June.

Starting in 2008, when Elon Musk took over as CEO of Tesla after being an early investor, he played a big role in helping the ...

For at least a decade, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised his company would soon launch a fully autonomous vehicle.