282 Results From "automated cars"

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

Norwegian transit authorities have approved fully driverless buses for public roads, likely Europe's first.
Electric Vehicles

Norway Approves Autonomous Buses for Public Roads

A man in a blue lab coat is inspecting or adjusting one of many humanoid AgiBot robots arranged in rows. The robots have black, glossy heads and silver and black bodies, standing on platforms with wheels. The background is plain white, emphasizing the robots and the man.
Robotics

Trade Unions Alarmed by Robots Designed to Do Blue Collar Work

Hertz' new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it's not the only company deploying the shoddy tech. 
Artificial Intelligence

Hertz’ AI System That Scans for “Damage” on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

In an internal memo, Meta informed its risk management workers their jobs were being automated thanks to advances in AI.
Ethics

Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated

Multiple white Waymo autonomous vehicles with rooftop sensors are arranged in a pattern against a black background, shown from an aerial perspective. The cars have black wheels and visible "WAYMO" branding on the sides. The image has a yellow-green color overlay.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion

An inquiry led by Republican senator Ted Cruz is blaming life-saving car safety regulations for the rising cost of cars.
Finance

Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

A tracker purports to reveal the true size of Tesla's puny Robotaxi fleet, eliciting chortles and derision.
Self-Driving Vehicles

The Number of Robotaxis Tesla Is Actually Running Will Make You Snort Out of Your Nose With Pure Derision

Grok, now integrated into newer Tesla vehicles, is continuing to be the edgiest mainstream AI chatbot around.
xAI

Mom Says Tesla’s New Built-In AI Asked Her 12-Year-Old Something Deeply Inappropriate

A husband is suing Tesla after his wife and children were killed when the car's driving software allegedly caused a terrible accident.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Accused of Killing Family, Plus Their Dog, by Steering Vehicle Head-on Into Oncoming Semi-Truck

Waymo is facing additional heat from federal regulators over its robotaxis failing to stop for school buses.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse

A man's face is shown twice, mirrored on either side of the image, with an overlay of two large, orange, stylized human head silhouettes facing each other in the center. Behind the faces and silhouettes is a blue grid pattern, and a yellow circle with a grid pattern is positioned in the middle of the orange silhouettes. The overall composition combines photographic and graphic elements with a geometric theme.
Ethics

Study Finds That Execs Are Already Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

Waymo's VP and global head of operations Ryan McNamara provided significantly more clarity on the company's use of remote operators.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Here’s How Many Remote Operators Waymo Has Per Self-Driving Taxi

A YouTuber got a strange call from Tesla mid-robotaxi-ride, asking her to leave the vehicle due to incoming weather.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Robotaxi Rider Gets Bizarre Call Saying She Has to Exit Vehicle Immediately

Horrifying footage shows the moment a "full self-driving" Tesla plows into a 71 year old woman who had stopped to assist in a crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Terrifying Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Get Confused by the Sun, Mow Down Innocent Grandmother

Police agency Europol has imagined a not-so-distant future in which criminals hijack autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots.
Ethics

Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence is throwing major shade on Elon Musk's years of broken promises about self-driving Teslas. 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Godfather of AI Says Elon Musk Is Lying About Self-Driving Teslas

Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?
Robotics

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

An AI-enhanced robot has autonomously completed a gallbladder removal on a lifelike patient with "100 percent accuracy."
Treatments

Doctors Let AI Control Surgery Robot and Perform Gallbladder Removal on Its Own

Elon Musk's vision for Tesla's "Cybercab" autonomous robotaxis is pretty detached from reality.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s “Robotaxis” Have a Dirty Secret