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How “self-driving car” trended on Hacker News

“Self-driving car” was mentioned 42,860 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2018 with 1,029 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “self-driving car” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
42,860
Peak month
Mar 2018 (1,029)
First seen
2007
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Top Hacker News stories about “self-driving car”

  1. 1.Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street 2,361 points · 1,766 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware 1,493 points · 1,090 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel 1,120 points · 609 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car 949 points · 447 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Waymo: Google's self-driving car company 785 points · 748 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars 719 points · 371 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen' 486 points · 897 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk 457 points · 563 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency 431 points · 468 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians 412 points · 191 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving 391 points · 448 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads 374 points · 320 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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