Self-driving car

GM CruiseGeneral Motors' Cruise saw its internal share price cut by more than half from a quarter ago as the fallout from an October accident continues to weigh on the self-driving car company.Cruise employees were told the share price had been estimated by a third party at USD 11.80, according to an email viewed by Reuters. That's down from a prior estimate of USD 24.27 just one quarter ago."We cannot ignore that this estimate is significantly lower than we've seen…

Elon Musk is taking issue with a report from the Washington Post published Tuesday detailing what the newspaper described as potentially the first death from Tesla’s Full-Self-Driving feature in 2022. Musk claims the autonomous driving feature was never even downloaded, though the billionaire CEO didn’t provide evidence to back up his claim.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview“He was not on FSD. The software had unfortunately never been downloaded. I say ‘unfortunately’, because the accident…

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…

Viral videos of people driving while wearing Apple’s Vision Pro have horrified the public in recent days and forced the White House to come out and say: Please don’t be dumb. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIt only took a few hours after Apple released its new $3,500 headset for videos to pop up of people using the gadget while driving, an act that clearly endangers the public, and rack up millions of views. Two of the most viewed videos feature people in Tesla vehicles, including a monstrous Cybertruck, which are…

A video of a Tesla owner wearing the new Apple Vision Pro headset while using the car’s assisted driving features, essentially letting the vehicle drive itself, and purportedly getting arrested is going viral on social media and highlighting a potentially new danger on the road.Apple's Vision Pro Seems Powerful, But Who Is It For? | Future TechPublished on Friday—the same day the Vision Pro went on sale in the U.S.—the 25-second video appears to show 21-year-old Dante Lentini, who posted the video on his X account, typing…

Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian, shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an independent review. Cruise didn’t explicitly say that a pedestrian was dragged 20 feet, and hoped screen sharing a video would “speak for itself.” The internet connection was so bad that regulators on the call never saw what happened.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving Car“Internet connectivity issues likely precluded or hampered from seeing the Full…

Apple Working On Own EV, Launch Reportedly Delayed To 2028.Apple plans to launch its electric vehicle in 2028, after scrapping plans to develop a fully self-driving car.Project Titan, Apple’s highly anticipated electric vehicle (EV) initiative, is once again in the news.The company’s initial goal for the project, which started in 2015, was to create a fully autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, but it has encountered many obstacles and executive turnover. Nonetheless, new Bloomberg reports indicate a change in…

It feels like rumors about Apple building a car have been swirling forever. We know that it’s been working on an automobile because of various leaks about the project, as well as news of auto-related hires over the years, but the company has never made any official announcements about the initiative. After a quiet period, the subject is back in the news again after Apple tipster Mark Gurman wrote for Bloomberg on Tuesday that the tech giant has switched to a less ambitious design for its automobile compared to its…