Driverless cars

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a proposal from Alphabet’s Waymo to expand its fared, completely driverless robotaxi services to Los Angeles and some cities near San Francisco, effective on Friday.Waymo, which already operates in San Francisco and Phoenix, applied on January 19 to expand its driverless services, saying it would work with policymakers, first responders, and community organizations. Last month, the CPUC suspended the application “for further staff review.”“Waymo may begin fared,…

The ministries will also promote initiatives to realize new autonomous mobility services at the Level 4 Mobility Acceleration Committee that they organize.Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has announced its roadmap to commercialize its in-house-developed, autonomous-drive mobility services in Japan.This is a significant step towards the company’s long-term vision, Nissan Ambition 2030, to empower mobility by solving transportation service issues faced by local communities in Japan.…

Autonomous tests with a safety driver rose to 5.7 million miles from 5.1 million, DMV data from Dec. 1, 2022 to Nov. 30, 2023 showed.Completely driverless vehicles traveled nearly 3.3 million miles in California last year, over five times the previous year's total, even as concerns rose in the wake of a Cruise robotaxi accident, state data on vehicle testing released on Friday showed.General Motors' Cruise and Alphabet's Waymo accounted for the bulk of the miles - 63%…

Completely driverless vehicles traveled nearly 3.3 million miles in California last year, over five times the previous year's total, even as concerns rose in the wake of a Cruise robotaxi accident, state data on vehicle testing released on Friday showed.General Motors' Cruise and Alphabet's Waymo accounted for the bulk of the miles - 63% and 36% respectively - recorded without a safety driver, according to the state's department of motor vehicles (DMV).Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

A Tesla Model Y is seen on a Tesla car lot in Austin, Texas, on May 31, 2023.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesTesla upgraded the self-driving hardware on the Model Y car it sells in China, Elon Musk's automaker said on WeChat on Thursday, as it looks to boost sales and fend off rising competition from domestic players.The Tesla Model Y will come with Hardware 4.0 (HW 4.0) free of charge when a customer purchases the car. HW 4.0 is a set of cameras, sensors and on-board computer designed to facilitate Tesla's experimental…

Autonomous vehicle operator Cruise said Thursday that federal regulators are looking into its handling of an October 2 pedestrian collision in San Francisco.“We are fully cooperating with the state and federal regulatory and enforcement agencies which have opened investigations or inquiries in connection with the incident, including the California DMV, the California Public Utilities Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

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 for the first time. The Alphabet-owned company announced the move in a blog post on Monday, signaling a notable expansion of its driverless car program. Waymo has been offering robotaxi rides to regular folks enrolled in its Waymo One ridesharing program in Phoenix and San Francisco, but the first freeway rides across Phoenix will be…

Jeff Farrah, CEO of lobbying group the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, which counts Waymo, Cruise, and other self-driving developers in its membership, says keeping motor vehicle regulation authority firmly in states’ hands is consistent with how vehicles have been regulated in the past. “Cities have a role to play in enforcing traffic laws, but life-saving AV technology cannot be scaled if dozens of cities are enacting contradictory regulations,” he says.Seattle disagrees. The city is a test bed for vehicles in…

DETROIT — General Motors' plans to diversify its business through trendy industries such as ridesharing and other "mobility" ventures or startups have largely fallen flat since the automaker started investing in such growth areas in 2016.Cruise, its majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is increasingly looking like it might be next.The unit has quickly gone from one of GM's greatest business opportunities to a growing liability. Cruise, of which GM owns more than 80%, has confronted a wave of problems and…

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving development subsidiary, will lay off almost a quarter of its workforce—about 900 employees—the company announced Thursday. The cuts are part of a broader restructuring to focus the robotaxi unit on a narrower path to commercialization. Instead of expanding its commercial robotaxi service to multiple US cities, the company will relaunch its currently paused service in just one.Cruise wants to “enhance our safety standards and processes before we scale,” company co-president and CTO Mo…