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Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com Anyone living in San Francisco knows that the city has been a testing ground for hundreds of self-driving cars – and there is probably a good reason why. In light of a series of incidents, including a pedestrian who was seriously injured by a Cruise robotaxi last year, California law enforcement has its hands tied when it comes to issuing moving violations when no human is behind the wheel. Currently, California law enforcement can only write…

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Tesla is delaying its important Full Self-Driving (FSD) v12 software update, which is supposed to an important step in the automaker’s self-driving program, as it needs more work outside California. For how many years in a row, I lost count, CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla would achieve self-driving by the end of the year. Shocker, it looks like it won’t happen this year either. For the last few months, Musk said that Tesla was preparing to launch its FSD v12 update in December, but it now…

Britain plans for the makers rather than the owners of self-driving cars to be legally liable for any crashes, and the government has said the bill will protect users and promote safety in the AV industry. Self-driving cars could be on some British roads by 2026, the country's transport minister Mark Harper said on Wednesday.Cars with full self-driving technology are not currently permitted on Britain's roads but the government's Automated Vehicles (AV) legislation is…

Autonomous vehicles could be on UK roads as soon as 2026, the transport secretary has said, as ministers seeks to capture as much as £42bn of the international self-driving market within the coming decade.“This technology exists, it works, and what we’re doing is putting in place the proper legislation so that people can have full confidence in the safety of this technology,” Mark Harper told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Wednesday.Asked if people would be able to travel in self-driving vehicles “with your hands off…

Waymo has released a report saying that its Waymo Driver self-driving vehicles outperform human drivers significantly, leading to much fewer crashes and injuries when compared to benchmark human drivers. Waymo’s data claims a 57% reduction in crashes that were reported to the police and an 85% reduction in crashes that caused any bodily injury. The data represents 7.14 million rider-only miles, and is compared to a baseline of how commonly human drivers get into crashes in the same area.…

Just four months ago, Cruise had reason to celebrate. California regulators had approved the self-driving car company’s request to provide around-the-clock fared passenger service in San Francisco, marking a major win for a company that had been operating under strict guidelines. The company had permission up until then to charge for driverless rides covering a small percentage of the city’s streets between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Cruise was partly up against concerns over incidents where the driverless cars blocked traffic or…

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Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The layoffs are part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company following an October 2 incident that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis. An email, penned by newly minted president and CTO Mo Elshenawy, was sent this morning to the entire 3,800-person workforce. The email, which TechCrunch has viewed, began with a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, are revolutionizing how we move from one place to another. They're also raising major safety and responsibility issues.…