303 Results From "driverless cars"

Waymo is looking to encourage its customers to "add a 'tip'" — even though there's no driver behind the wheel.
Advanced Transport

Waymo Raises Eyebrows With Experimental Feature to “Tip” Its Driverless Cars

New York City is officially accepting applications for a new driverless car program, which could result in plenty of chaos.
Advanced Transport

New York City: Please Test Driverless Cars on Our Chaotic Streets

A review of eight different AI pedestrian detectors revealed the programs to be worse at detecting darker-skinned pedestrians and kids.
Advanced Transport

Driverless Cars are Biased Against Dark-Skinned People and Kids, Scientists Say

A San Francisco city leader is launching a campaign to rein in driverless cars after a Waymo killed a beloved pet in her community.
Future Society

Waymo Haunted by Killing of Beloved Neighborhood Cat

A beloved neighborhood cat in San Francisco allegedly lost its life in a hit-and-run accident after a driverless Waymo failed to stop.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Beloved Bodega Cat Reportedly Killed by Driverless Waymo

Waymo has been experimenting with programming to make its typically-cautious robotaxis "confidently assertive."
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Has Been Reprogramming Its Robotaxis to Drive More Aggressively

Waymo CEO thinks it's matter of time when a Waymo driverless autonomous robotaxi accidentally kills somebody in a fatal crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo CEO Says Society Is Ready for One of Its Cars to Kill Someone

A man had the misfortune of becoming trapped inside a driverless Waymo taxi, which drove in circles instead of to the airport.
Advanced Transport

Man Trying to Catch Flight Alarmed as His Driverless Waymo Gets Stuck Driving in Loop Around Parking Lot

A new video shows a driverless Waymo robotaxi struggling to decipher the hand signals of a construction worker.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Flummoxed by Construction Worker’s Hand Signals

The launch date for Tesla's long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas continues to slip, raising embarrassing questions for the company.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Old Video Shows Elon Musk Saying That What Tesla’s Launching This Month Wouldn’t Count as Full Self-Driving

 A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle.
Artificial Intelligence

New Camera Inside Cars Detects If You’ve Been Drinking

A woman was found trapped and injured underneath a self-driving car — but the autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn't seem to be the one to hit her. 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Pedestrian Found Critically Injured Under Self-Driving Car

Although Donald Trump and Elon Musk have recently been acting like lifelong best friends, their relationship was hostile for many years.
Future Society

Back Before Their Bromance, Trump Said Musk Would Drop to His Knees and Beg

A California resident has been arrested and charged for slashing the tires of Waymo vehicles in 17 separate incidents in San Francisco.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Woman Arrested for Vandalizing More than a Dozen Self-Driving Waymo Vehicles

While Tesla saw its shares take a nosedive following its robotaxi event, the lackluster showing did hand a nice stock boost to Uber and Lyft.
Tesla

Tesla’s Disappointing Robotaxi Event Sent Shares of Uber and Lyft Soaring

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

As Bloomberg reports, a fleet of Baidu robotaxis is triggering traffic jams in the city of Wuhan, frustrating residents.
Advanced Transport

China Flooded With Robotaxis Causing Traffic Jams

A video making its rounds on social media shows a self-driving Waymo car bombing down the wrong side of the road in downtown San Francisco.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Waymo Spotted Plowing Down Wrong Side of Street

After being asked if he was bothered by Elon Musk bashing his Stargate deal, Trump said he also had "certain hatreds for people."
Elon Musk

Trump Says Elon Musk’s Bizarre Behavior Is Okay Because “I Have Certain Hatreds of People Too”

An official New York City chatbot has been telling business owners and landlords to break the law, but Mayor Eric Adams defended the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

NYC Mayor Defends AI System That Tells Business Owners to Commit Wage Theft