Robotaxi leader Waymo is expanding its ridesharing service to a much wider area in San Francisco. The Alphabet-owned company announced the larger service area on Monday in a message on …
Good morning! It’s Friday, October 6, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
The public’s trust in self-driving cars has declined for the second year in a row, according to a study conducted by J.D. Power and MIT. The growing distrust applies to …
An autonomous vehicle (AV) operated by Cruise ran over a pedestrian in San Francisco on Monday night just after she’d been hit by another car, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. …
Driverless taxis from Cruise have been prowling the streets of San Francisco for years, with what we might call mixed results. They’re known for stopping in traffic and interrupting commutes, …
Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 28, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
Photo: Gonzalo Fuentes (Reuters) Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk works diligently to show the side of Elon that those of us in automotive media have known for years. …
MIT professor Carlo Ratti and data scientist John Rossant warned in a San Francisco Chronicle joint op-ed this weekend that robotaxis will be a blight on American cities. Their proof? …
A couple of weeks ago, as San Francisco emergency responders attempted to pull away from a scene where a man had been seriously injured, a pair of Cruise robotaxis allegedly …
The current group of companies chasing the dream of putting a mass-market driverless car into production has yet to clear several significant hurdles. The current state of semi-autonomous driving technology …