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A man and two kids were burned to death after the Tesla they were riding in slammed into a tree and burst into flames.

Electric Vehicles

Man and Two Kids Burned Alive in Tesla Crash

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging that the company prefers hiring immigrants over American citizens in order to save money.

Elon Musk Hires Immigrants So He Can Pay Them Less, Lawsuit Allege

By Sharon Adarlo

Waymo robotaxis repeatedly returned to park in front of the same exact spot in front of a family's home in Los Angeles.

Artificial Intelligence

Family Baffled By Waymo Robotaxis Constantly Hanging Out in Front of Their House

By Frank Landymore

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

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco is fed up with all those robotaxis crowding its streets — and on Lunar New Year, some folks let off some steam about it.

Advanced Transport

Furious Crowd Destroys Robotaxi, Sets It on Fire

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cruise, the company behind those driverless taxis, is taking its entire fleet offline — including the ones that have "safety drivers."

Advanced Transport

Cruise Is Taking All of Its Robotaxis Off the Streets, Even the Ones With “Safety Drivers”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cruise made the decision following a federal investigation into the company and the loss of its permit to operate its service in California.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Pauses All Driverless Operations, Saying It’s Taking a “Hard Look Inwards”

By Frank Landymore

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unfortunately for autonomous carmaker Cruise, its Houston beta test didn't get off to a very hot start this week.

Advanced Transport

Brand New Robotaxis Immediately Cause Traffic Jam in Houston

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The California Senate has passed a bill that requires self-driving trucks to have a human operator at all times while on public roads.

Self-Driving Vehicles

California Set to Ban Self-Driving Trucks With No Safety Driver

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Self-driving cars caused a major traffic jam on Friday in San Francisco when ten of its self-driving taxis simply shut down.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Ten Self-Driving Cars Cause Huge Traffic Jam After Losing Wireless Signal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Federal officials are investigating a car crash suspected of involving Tesla's Autopilot that killed a teenager and a baby.

Government Opens Investigation Into Tesla Autopilot Crash That Killed Teen and Baby

By Sharon Adarlo

By placing traffic cones on self-driving cars' hoods, activists are turning them into useless hunks of metal and plastic.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Annoyed Residents Disabling Self-Driving Cars by Placing Traffic Cones on Their Hoods

By Sharon Adarlo

An autonomous vehicle industry group seems mighty mad that we, like everyone else, call Tesla's "Full-Self Driving" feature exactly what it is.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Industry Group Not Happy That We Referred to Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” Feature as “Self Driving”

By Noor Al-Sibai

After canning its autonomous vehicle division in 2020, Uber is back with a robotaxi service open to customers for free — but who needs 'em?

Advanced Transport

Can We Please Stop With These Offensively Stupid “Robotaxis”?

By Frank Landymore