Waymo, the automated self-driving taxi service and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., paused operations in the Alamo City after one of its unoccupied driverless vehicles was swept away in a low-water crossing on Monday night. The service has yet to resume during the busy “Fiesta” celebration period in San Antonio.
Renault is testing a new driverless bus in Barcelona this week. The autonomous vehicle runs on a 1.3-mile circular route in the Spanish city.
A Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence (AI) expert experienced some alarming technological problems when his driverless Waymo ride to the airport nearly caused him to miss his flight after it began driving in circles.
Los Angeles authorities arrested a man who allegedly attempted to hijack a Waymo self-driving taxi early Thursday morning, according to local reports.
In California, self-driving cars are navigating city streets free from the risk of receiving traffic tickets due to current legal limitations in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s troubled state.
Robotaxi customers in San Francisco are using the driverless vehicles for “no boundaries” sex while they travel to their destinations.
Automated semi trucks could soon be traveling on I-70 between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, thanks to an initiative by DriveOhio and each state’s Department of Transportation.
Activists in San Francisco are putting orange cones on driverless vehicles, disabling them as a form of protest.
A self-driving car reportedly got in the way as first responders tried to get to the scene of a shooting that left nine people wounded in San Francisco on Friday.
A Waymo autonomous taxi caused chaos navigating a fire scene in San Francisco, exposing the challenges driverless vehicles face in reacting to unusual situations and commands from first responders. Police officers desperately worked to stop the driverless vehicle from running over a hose being used by firefighters to put out a fire. Body camera footage captured one officer explaining, “Got a bit of a pickle. I got an autonomous vehicle, the Waymo, it’s inching slowly and closely to one of the main water lines that the SF Fire just charged. Can’t run it over,” he says. “I don’t trust this AI.”
Lyft is very clear that it believes the future of transportation is driverless vehicles, but it has not told investors how it intends to get there.
An asylum seeker and a refugee from Iraq are alleged to have plotted a driverless car bomb attack in the UK, targetting “infidels”, Sheffield Crown Court has heard.
Californians now oppose self-driving cars on local roads by almost a three-to-one margin, according to a new poll.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is last in the driverless vehicle race, despite being frequently hyped by the media, according to a report.
As we examine the notion of trusting our vehicles to drive us from point A to point B, many deep philosophical issues come to mind.
Uber Technologies Inc suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed on an Arizona roadway, the ride-hailing company and local police said.
A recently released video shows a Tesla Model S car colliding with a barrier on a highway near Dallas, Texas. The driver blamed Tesla’s autopilot feature for the collision.
Self-driving cars will need multiple detection systems including expensive infrared “lidar” technology if they are to be safe at high speeds, the chief executive of German autos supplier ZF Friedrichshafen said on Wednesday. Stefan Sommer’s remarks come a week after
Experts are warning that the rise of semi-autonomous cars could lead to couples having sex in moving vehicles.
(Reuters) — U.S. vehicle safety regulators have said the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving Google car could be considered the driver under federal law, a major step toward ultimately winning approval for autonomous vehicles on the roads.
In the Obama Administration’s latest welfare for Silicon Valley billionaires, the President intends to ask Congress for $4 billion in federal subsidies and nationalization of transportation safety regulations in an effort to speed the deployment of driverless cars.
A new video published on YouTube shows a Seattle Uber driver saved from a crash by his Tesla’s autopilot system.
Sony Pictures has had to navigate rough seas since last autumn, when the company was hacked, confidential documents were posted online, and The Interview was canceled. But the company is trying to bounce back with a comedy about cars equipped to navigate by themselves