Waymo robotaxis now completing 50,000 paid trips a week
Waymo robotaxis are now completing more than 50,000 paid trips a month in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, according to a post on social media by the Alphabet-owned company.…
Waymo’s robotaxis head for the highway
Waymo After several years of testing its autonomous vehicles on city streets without a human engineer behind the wheel, Waymo is about to send its fully driverless cars onto freeways…
Beleaguered robotaxi startup Cruise lays off quarter of workforce
Cruise Beleaguered autonomous car startup Cruise has laid off 900 workers, equal to about a quarter of its workforce. The news comes a day after nine executives were also dismissed.…
GM to cut funding for beleaguered driverless startup Cruise, report claims
It’s not getting any easier for beleaguered autonomous-car startup Cruise after a report on Tuesday suggested its main backer, General Motors (GM), is about to slash funding for the startup.…
Cruise woes continue as key figures quit the robotaxi firm
Cruise co-founder Daniel Kan has quit the beleaguered autonomous-car company, Reuters reported on Monday. His departure as chief product officer comes a day after Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt…
Cruise woes prompt production halt of fully driverless van
Cruise General Motors-owned Cruise has halted production of its fully driverless vehicle — the Origin — just over a week after it suspended robotaxi operations nationwide following a number of…
Cruise’s robotaxi service suspended by California regulator
Autonomous-car startup Cruise has run into trouble in California after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) said Tuesday it was suspending its deployment and driverless permits with immediate effect.…
Dubai Police to deploy driverless patrol cars with AI smarts
Dubai Police While U.S. firms like Waymo and Cruise focus on ridesharing services with their autonomous vehicles, the United Arab Emirates’ coastal city of Dubai is aiming to take the…
Waymo reveals big expansion of robotaxi service in San Francisco
Robotaxi leader Waymo is expanding its ridesharing service to a much wider area in San Francisco. The Alphabet-owned company announced the larger service area on Monday in a message on…
Cruise AV drives over woman just after she was hit by another car
An autonomous vehicle (AV) operated by Cruise ran over a pedestrian in San Francisco on Monday night just after she’d been hit by another car, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.…