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A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the most destructive attack so far on driverless vehicles in the U.S.On Saturday night, a crowd surrounded a white sport utility vehicle that was moving along a street in the city’s Chinatown district, a company spokesperson said.Michael Vandi, a witness who posted videos of the incident, told Reuters that people were celebrating China’s Lunar New Year by…

Last week, a driverless Waymo car collided with a cyclist in San Francisco, causing minor injuries and the incident is being reviewed by the state's auto regulator.A crowd vandalized a Waymo self-driving vehicle and set it on fire by throwing a firework inside the car in San Francisco on Saturday, said Waymo, which is owned by Alphabet.This is not the first time people have attacked a self-driving car, but the severity of the incident may illustrate growing public…

Xiaolang Zhang, the former Apple employee who pleaded guilty to stealing information about the development of the company's self-driving vehicle, has been sentenced to 120 days in prison followed by a three-year supervised release. Zhang was arrested back in 2018 at San Jose International Airport just as he was about to board a flight to China. He initially pleaded not guilty until he changed his tune in 2022 and admitted to stealing trade secrets. In addition to serving time behind bars, he also has to pay restitution…

Clearbot, a Hong Kong-based marine technology startup plans to launch a cutting-edge fleet of larger solar-powered autonomous boats that can clean up river and ocean pollution in Indian rivers In a bid to tackle the…

Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal, who is also a board member at Tesla, is not as optimistic as his brother about Tesla delivering ‘Full Self-Driving’. He says: “maybe 5 years”. Virtually every year for the past five years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the company will achieve full self-driving capability by the end of the year. It has become a sort of running joke. Again, a month into the year, Musk recently said that Tesla’s self-driving would become a clear reality “probably this year.”…

In December, Cruise announced it was cutting 24% of its workforce. GM said last week it was cutting spending by about USD 1 billion at Cruise in 2024.The California Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing Tuesday on a bid by General Motors' Cruise unit to resolve the agency's investigation into the robotaxi company's failure to disclose details of a pedestrian crash involving a self-driving car.In December, the commission (CPUC) ordered Cruise to appear, citing…

Image Source : FILE Apple's efforts in testing self-driving car technology paced up Apple has ramped up its self-driving car testing and has logged over 450,000 miles of autonomous driving in the US from December 2022 to November 2023. The data, which was submitted by Apple with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) showed that Apple has tested its…

Apple has ramped up its self-driving car testing and has logged over 450,000 miles of autonomous driving in the US from December 2022 to November 2023.Data submitted by Apple with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) showed that Apple tested its autonomous car more than ever last year, Wired reported.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine…

GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit on Thursday revealed US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission probes stemming from an October collision in which one of its autonomous vehicles dragged a pedestrian who had been struck by another vehicle.Cruise reported the government investigations in a blog post in which the company also vowed to reform its culture stemming from a “failure of leadership” around the incident. The blog post did not disclose the status of the victim, who was dragged 20ft by the…

If it feels like technology is speeding ahead, you might be right. In some states, like California, the laws have yet to catch up with technology.If ride-share drivers and rental scooters aren’t complicating the roadways enough already, now there are self-driving cars on the road and no one to hold them accountable.With the ability to cause as much damage as a car with a driver, it would seem natural to assume that there would be the same level of consequence or recourse for self-driving cars.Yet, unlike Arizona and…