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Enlarge / The Uber vehicle after it struck Elaine Herzberg. (credit: Tempe Police Department) As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high: Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area. Uber was racking up millions of test miles for its own cars. Tesla was […]
Self-driving car startup Zoox has become the first company to receive approval from California regulators to operate an autonomous ride service.Read More
Waymo has obtained a permit that allows it to test fully driverless cars in the state of California. It’ll be the first to do so.Read More
Enlarge / Voyage operates low-speed self-driving taxis in two retirement communities. (credit: Voyage) There’s near-universal agreement that Google spinoff Waymo is the leading company in the driverless-vehicle business. And Waymo’s strategy for developing fully driverless cars is very expensive. Before launching a commercial driverless car service, Waymo needs to convince itself—and the world—that its cars will […]
THE race to bring driverless cars to market is fierce and crowded. All the leading carmakers are in the field: on May 31st SoftBank’s Vision Fund said that it would invest $ 2.25bn in the autonomous vehicle (AV) arm of General Motors. So are tech upstarts, from Uber to Tesla to Waymo, Alphabet’s self-drive division […]
Enlarge / A T9 Transporter van like this could soon shuttle Apple employees. (credit: Volkswagen) The New York Times reported this evening that Apple entered into a partnership with Volkswagen Group to pair a number of electric T6 Transporter vans with Apple’s proprietary autonomous vehicle software. The vans will reportedly be used to shuttle employees around Apple’s […]
In early April, California’s new rules that allow automakers, tech giants and just about anybody to test fully driverless cars on its roads finally took effect. But before those companies can realize their ride-hailing robot taxi ambitions, they have to wait for the state to adopt a proposal issued by the California Public Utilities Commission. […]
Automakers can now start testing fully driverless cars on California’s roads. According to the state DMV’s new regulations that became effective on April 2nd, it can now issue three types of autonomous vehicle testing permits. The first kind is the original one it approved years ago, which needs a driver behind the wheel, while the […]
Enlarge (credit: Uber) Uber was told on Monday evening to suspend its autonomous car-testing program in Arizona. The move follows the death of Elaine Herzberg, a pedestrian who was struck and killed by one of the company’s self-driving vehicles on March 18. According to the Associated Press, Governor Doug Ducey told Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Everything Is In Stock) There’s something very wrong with Uber’s driverless car program. On Wednesday night, police released footage of Sunday night’s deadly car crash in Tempe, Arizona, where an Uber self-driving car crashed into 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. The details it reveals are damning for Uber. “The idea that she […]
