San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A group in San Francisco is going around placing cones on Waymo and Cruise autonomous cars. Placing cones on them disables the car and forces it…
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Navigating the AV Industry’s Cost Crisis
The companies developing autonomous vehicles are under serious financial pressure. Their long-standing reliance on real-world physical testing has resulted in the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars on maintaining…
Waymo Robotaxis Stranded in San Francisco
A case study for uncovering and resolving AV edge cases using hyperscale virtual simulation Reacting to emergency and priority vehicles like fire trucks is one of the challenges Autonomous Vehicles…
Tesla Autopilot not responsible for 2019 fatal crash
Tesla’s controversial driver assistance feature Autopilot has received another pass. On Tuesday a jury in California found that Autopilot was not to blame for a 2019 crash in Riverside County…
Driving the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
LOS ANGELES—Mercedes-Benz has never shied away from new technology. Historically, the carmaker has been an early adopter and developer of systems such as antilock brakes, stability control, airbags, and adaptive…
Autonomous truck platoons on rails could be wave of future
Platoons of driverless cargo trucks cruising across highways is one of those tempting technocrat ideas that doesn’t look like it will pan out. As autonomous driving technology matured in the…
Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google’s Waymo and GM’s Cruise to begin charging…
California gives Waymo and Cruise the go-ahead to charge passengers
The robotaxi companies Waymo and Cruise now have permission to offer around-the-clock driverless rides to fee-paying passengers in San Fransisco. Until now, both autonomous ride-hailing companies have been able to…
Waymo kills off autonomous trucking program
Google’s cost cutters are taking another bite out of Waymo. After being hit by layoffs that cut 8 percent of staff, it now looks like the self-driving truck program—Waymo Via—is…
Volkswagen will start testing its driverless ID. Buzz in Austin, Texas
Volkswagen Group has picked Austin, Texas, as the location for its first autonomous driving program in North America. In July, the automaker is deploying some of its ID. Buzz electric…