Rideshares And Robotaxis Are Making Traffic Worse
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? …
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Autonomous Truck Companies Are Leaving California For Texas
Three autonomous trucking companies with roots in California – Kodiak Robotics, Aurora Innovations and Gatik.AI – all fled the Golden State looking for greener pastures in Texas when it came …
A Cruise Robotaxi Was Blamed for a San Francisco Man’s Death But He Was Actually Hit By a City Bus
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 …
Mispainted Yellow Line On I-95 Fools Driver Assistance Systems
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 …
Cruise CEO Thinks The Robotaxi Hate Is ‘Overblown’
What do you get when you have a company create, develop and test a technology no one asked for with obvious technical issues in the fifth largest city in the …
Canadian Big Three Workers Are Ready To Strike As Well
Welcome to a brand new week. It’s Monday, August 28, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in …
Cruise Robotaxi Crashes Into Fire Truck in San Francisco
Headlines This Week In a big win for human artists, a Washington D.C. judge has ruled that AI-generated art lacks copyright protections. Meta has released SeamlessM4T, an automated speech and …
Driverless Cars Worse at Seeing Kids, Dark-Skinned People—Study
Driverless car systems have a bias problem, according to a new study from Kings College London. The study examined eight AI-powered pedestrian detection systems used for autonomous driving research. Researchers …
A Cruise Robotaxi Was Caught On Camera Malfunctioning In An Intersection
Image: Andrej Sokolow Robotaxis are in disarray in California’s Bay Area. Just over a week after getting the OK to expand service by California state officials, a Cruise robotaxi drove …
Tesla Breach Leaks 75,000 People’s Personal Data
Welcome to a brand new week! It’s Monday, August 21, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in …