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Representative image.General Motors' self-driving car unit Cruise is preparing to resume testing its robotaxis on public roads with safety drivers in the coming weeks, with Houston and Dallas as potential locations, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.Cruise suspended its U.S. operations in October after an incident in San Francisco, where one of its robotaxis dragged a pedestrian struck by another car."We have not set a timeline for deployment. Our goal is to relaunch…

A Waymo robotaxi was attacked and set on fire this month as it stopped amid Chinese New Year revelers lighting fireworks in San Francisco's Chinatown. A California regulator has put on hold until June 19 an application by Alphabet's Waymo to expand its robotaxi services to parts of the Los Angeles area and San Francisco's peninsula, amid rising safety concerns over autonomous vehicles.The application has been "suspended for further staff review", a notification on the…

Steve Kenner General Motors' Cruise said Monday it named a longtime auto and tech industry employee as head of safety for the robotaxi unit.Cruise named Steve Kenner as its chief safety officer, who will oversee Cruise's safety management systems and operations.Kenner began has career at GM in 1978 and previously worked as global director of automotive safety at Ford, among other jobs. He was most recently vice president of safety at self-driving trucking company Kodiak…

Last year, two Waymo robotaxis in Phoenix "made contact" with the same pickup truck that was in the midst of being towed, which prompted the Alphabet subsidiary to issue a recall on its vehicles' software. A "recall" in this case meant rolling out a software update after investigating the issue and determining its root cause.In a blog post, Waymo has revealed that on December 11, 2023, one of its robotaxis collided with a backwards-facing pickup truck being towed ahead of it. The company says the truck was being towed…

General Motors' Cruise said Monday it named a longtime auto and tech industry employee as head of safety for the robotaxi unit.Cruise named Steve Kenner as its chief safety officer, who will oversee Cruise's safety management systems and operations.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science…

Cruise has named its first “chief safety officer” as part of the company’s effort to rehabilitate itself following an incident — and ensuing controversy — last year that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis. Steve Kenner, an autonomous vehicle industry veteran who has held top safety roles at Kodiak, Locomation, Aurora and Uber’s now-defunct self-driving division, is filling the newly created role. Kenner will report directly to Cruise president and chief…

A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car with no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarAccording to Waymo, the self-driving car was navigating through Chinatown at about 9 p.m. when it was suddenly surrounded by a crowd. Members of the crowd defaced the vehicle and threw a firecracker inside it, which set it on fire. The San Francisco Police…

A Waymo self-driving car was set upon by vandals in San Francisco on Saturday evening. According to footage and eyewitness reports of the incident, the attackers graffiti’d the car, before smashing its windows and throwing fireworks inside. The vehicle then caught fire and burned out before fire crews arrived to extinguish the blaze. No passengers were in the Waymo vehicle when it was set upon, and no bystanders are thought to have been hurt in the incident. The fire department posted pictures of the remains of the…

One of Waymo’s driverless cars collided with a cyclist in San Francisco this week because it apparently didn’t see the human until it was too late.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarAccording to a Waymo spokesperson:On February 6th at 17th Street and Mississippi Street in San Francisco, one of our vehicles was involved in a collision with a bicyclist. The Waymo vehicle was at a complete stop at a four-way intersection. An oncoming large truck progressed through the intersection in our direction and then at our turn to…

Waymo said its vehicle was at a complete stop at a four-way intersection when a large truck turned into the intersection. At its turn to proceed, the Waymo car moved forward.A driverless Waymo car collided with a cyclist in San Francisco on Tuesday causing minor injuries and the incident is being reviewed by the state's auto regulator.Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving unit, said by email on Tuesday it called the police to the scene and that it was also contacting…