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California has the most stringent regulations for self-driving cars in the U.S., including a strict mandate for companies to file a âtraffic collisionâ report involving any autonomous car. This, it turns out, encompasses even when a golf ball strikes a robot-operated car.
The idea with autonomous driving technology is that, eventually, the driver will be removed from the equation to do whatever they want while their car drives itself. That vision, however, is decades away from becoming reality, if ever. Yet the Koch Brothers, the billionaire libertarian oil tycoons known for unleashingâŚ
Both General Motors and Lyft have ambitious goals to commercialize autonomous taxis in some way, but after teaming up more than two years ago, with the former investing $500 million in the latter, it seems theyâll no longer be pursuing that endeavor together.
Tesla has been a leader in semi-autonomous driving tech for some time, but thatâs been a double-edged sword. While ahead of many competitors, it now faces several investigations over crashes involving its Autopilot system and a flurry of criticism from safety advocates over how it is advertised. Nonetheless, CEO ElonâŚ
General Motors has treaded carefully with the rollout of its semi-autonomous system called Super Cruise. Until now, GMâs only made it available on the most recent Cadillac CT6s, but now the automaker is planning to expand it beyond Cadillac after 2020 and eventually to all of its U.S. brands, reports Automotive News.
General Motors has said it wants to deploy a fleet of self-driving Chevy Bolts for a commercial ride-sharing service at some point in 2019. But ahead of that, GMâs self-driving unit, GM Cruise, is aiming to deploy autonomous cars without a driver at the wheel as part of a pilot program in San Francisco that, emailsâŚ
Waymo, the self-driving car spinoff of Google, made a big splash last week by announcing it struck a deal with Fiat Chrysler to add 62,000 Chrysler Pacficia hybrid minivans to its upcoming fleet of autonomous taxis. Turns out, the move could have a big impact not only on Waymoâs bottom line but also potential buyersâŚ
General Motors has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist who alleged in January that one of the automakerâs self-driving Chevy Bolts knocked him off his bike in a California crash. The settlement for the case, the first known to involve an autonomous car crash, comes as GM moves to quickly accelerate theâŚ
If you consider the massive amount of data Google has gathered on the world around you, it might be surprisingâmaybe reassuring?âto learn the company canât track down something as simple as a trailer. But thatâs indeed the case: Since January, Michigan police have been trying to locate a car hauler stolen from Waymo,âŚ
The reason an Uber self-driving car fatally struck a pedestrian in March is coming into sharper focus, thanks to the release of a preliminary report on Thursday from the National Transportation Safety Board. But the agencyâs findings raise a notable question: If the carâa Volvo XC90 outfitted with Uberâs ownâŚ
The self-driving car owned by Uber that fatally struck a woman in March detected her in the road about six seconds before the crash, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, which also acknowledged delayed responses from the vehicleâs automatic emergency braking system.
Uber informed âabout 300â workers of their termination earlier today as part of plans to shut down its self-driving car testing program in Arizona following a fatal crash in March, where one of the companyâs test vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian, according to The Arizona Republic.
If weâre going to be talking and thinking about autonomous cars, self-driving cars, robo-cars, drive-o-droids (copyright pending) or whatever the hell we want to call these things, we should get a sense of exactly what they do and how they do it. How do they know whatâs around them, and how can they potentially beâŚ
In some corners of the world where Elon Muskâs word is taken as gospel, thereâs a prevailing view that itâs irresponsible for news outlets to cover car crashes involving semi-autonomous technology as diligently as weâve seen lately. Whether itâs Tesla investors stanning hard for the company, claiming ânot oneââŚ
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
In October, General Motors made a big splash by announcing it was applying for a permit to test autonomous cars in New York State, with plans to deploy vehicles on the busy streets of Manhattan in âearly 2018.â But more than six months later, the automaker has yet to receive final approval for the necessary permit toâŚ
Earlier this year, Californiaâs department of motor vehicles rolled out a new set of regulations for companies that want to conduct driverless car tests on public roads. But despite the painstaking effort that went into crafting the regulations, the DMV says there is one company in the state thatâs allowed to testâŚ
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