Published on: 2025-04-21 19:10:44
China has banned automakers in the country from marketing their vehicles with grandiose terms such as “smart driving” or “autonomous driving” following a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SU7. The car was in driver assistance mode as the vehicle approached a construction zone, but the driver took control only just before the car hit a concrete barrier. Three passengers were killed in the accident. The problem with any assistance system below Level 4—in which a vehicle can operate entirely without
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 03:00:00
Uber is inviting customers in Atlanta to join a list if they’re interested in hailing a Waymo robotaxi as the companies prepare to launch a commercial service in the city. Uber and Waymo last September announced plans to offer a robotaxi service in Austin and Atlanta in early 2025 as part of an expanded partnership. In March, the companies started offering the “Waymo on Uber” robotaxi service in Austin, about a month after opening an “interest list” to customers. The companies said on Tuesday
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 22:00:03
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, expand into more cities -- and countries. On Wednesday, Waymo said it'll begin driving its vehicles on Tokyo's streets, making this the company's first international location. Waymo announced the expansion in December, which is happening in partnership with Japanese taxi service Nihon Kotsu and taxi app Go. Now, the US-based company is finally re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 10:30:00
Table of Contents Zoox Is Bringing Its Driverless Test Fleet to Los Angeles Zoox, the self-driving company owned by Amazon, is making its Los Angeles debut. On Tuesday, the company said it's expanding its test fleet to Southern California, meaning riders there will eventually be able to hail a ride in one of its pod-like robotaxis, which don't have a steering wheel, pedals or driver's seat. Los Angeles joins six other locations where Zoox is testing its self-driving technology: the San Francis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 15:30:00
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles starting Tuesday – a modest, yet meaningful step as the company inches toward offering public rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco later this year. The data-collection effort marks Zoox’s entrance into its sixth city and lays the groundwork for a future robotaxi service. Unlike rival Waymo, which is already providing paid robotaxi rides in LA, Zoox is still in the early
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 22:07:00
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo -- the driverless arm of Google's parent company Alphabet -- expand into more cities. On Tuesday, the company shared it's expanding into Washington, DC, and will offer rides through its Waymo One app there starting in 2026. Waymo currently operates fully autonomous rides for the general public in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. In January, the company returned to the nation's cap
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 23:00:00
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city. The company aims to launch its Waymo One ridehailing service in the nation’s capitol in 2026 — though it acknowledged that it will first need to change the city law prohibiting fully autonomous vehicles without safety drivers. Currently, companies that wan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 10:23:08
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Lyft will let users in Atlanta catch robotaxi rides starting this summer, as reported by NBC News. “Atlanta riders will have the opportunity to be matched with a fleet of autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans equipped with May Mobility’s autonomous technology, a deployment that Lyft and May Mobility aim to scale over time across multiple markets,” Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin tel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 01:26:34
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous driving unit, has issued a voluntary recall for 258 vehicles due to issues with its autonomous driving system that could cause unexpected hard breaking. The recall follows a preliminary investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last May after the agency received two reports of incidents in which motorcyclists collided with the back of Zoox vehicles — Toyota Highlanders equipped with Zoox technology. The initial investigation found th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 06:26:34
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous driving unit, has issued a voluntary recall for 258 vehicles due to issues with its autonomous driving system that could cause unexpected hard breaking. The recall follows a preliminary investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last May after the agency received two reports of incidents in which motorcyclists collided with the back of Zoox vehicles — Toyota Highlanders equipped with Zoox technology. The initial investigation found th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 02:54:11
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. At Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose, Calif. today, the chipmaker announced it was teaming up with General Motors to develop next-generation cars, robots, and factories. GM says it will apply several of Nvidia’s products to its business, such as the Omniverse 3D graphics platform which will run simulations on virt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 17:28:20
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit in L.A., “Look, [new management] killed the autonomous car project we had going on. At the time, we were really only behind Waymo but probably catching up, and we were going to pass them in short order . . . I wasn’t running the company when that happened, but you know, you could say, ‘Wish we had an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 23:28:20
In Brief Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit in L.A., “Look, [new management] killed the autonomous car project we had going on. At the time, we were really only behind Waymo but probably catching up, and we were going to pass them in short order . . . I wasn’t running the company when that happened, but you know, you could say, ‘Wish
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 00:19:59
Reflection is an AI company building superintelligent autonomous systems. — More than a decade ago, our co-founder Ioannis joined DeepMind as a founding engineer where he helped create AlphaGo, the first system to surpass the human world champion in the game of Go. That moment in 2016 was a turning point for AI and many members of the Reflection team. It was the first time we internalized what superintelligence would feel like. We’ve been in pursuit of building superintelligence for many year
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 08:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! TechCrunch’s transportation team — well at least myself and senior reporter Rebecca Bellan — are hittin’ the road. Destination: SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and culture conference in Austin. We both have panels and if you’re at SXSW, please come check these out and introduce yourself. We’ll be keeping our eyes and ears open
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 16:09:00
There's a reason that the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, were home to many autonomous vehicle programs: Driving on wide streets in great weather is easy mode for an AV. But a commercial robotaxi service that only works when the sun is shining is a commercial robotaxi service that will never recoup the billions it would cost to develop. That's why Moia—Volkswagen's AV division—has begun testing its autonomous ID Buzzes around the streets of Oslo, Norway, this winter. For a while, autonomous drivin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 16:05:36
Uber executive Sachin Kansal has a reputation for dogfooding — the tactic of using one’s own products and services to root out problems and make improvements. As he ascended Uber’s executive ladder over the past eight years, Kansal ratcheted up 700 trips delivering food or people to their destinations. Lengthy reports, often dozens of pages long and filled with screenshots of the app that documented his observations and what needed to be fixed, have become a Kansal trademark. As the company’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 04:57:07
Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride’s sidewalk delivery robots. Under the partnership, Avride will expand its fleet of Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles, which will be assembled at th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 17:00:00
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Hyundai is teaming up with Yandex spinoff Avride to jointly develop fully driverless cars for autonomous ridehailing, the companies announced today. The partnership will enable Avride to deploy 100 Hyundai Ioniq 5 SUVs retrofitted with autonomous driving technology this year. Avride currently operates fleets of sidewalk de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 00:18:00
What just happened? A new achievement in autonomous vehicle technology unfolded at the Kennedy Space Center last month as a driverless Maserati MC20 Coupe shattered the land speed record for self-driving cars. The sleek Italian supercar reached an astounding 197.7 mph, surpassing the previous record of 192.8 mph set in April 2022. This feat not only showcases the rapid advancement of self-driving technology but also highlights the potential for autonomous racing to translate into safety improvem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 16:17:51
In Brief Chinese ride-hail firm Didi is on the hunt for fresh funds for its autonomous vehicle technology unit that could value it at $5 billion, according to Bloomberg News. Investor interest in self-driving cars is high in China on the backs of IPOs from WeRide and Pony AI, which have a market capitalization of $4.7 billion and $5.25 billion, respectively, as of Tuesday morning. Didi Autonomous Driving, the unit Didi created in 2020, has raised a total $1.55 billion to date, per PitchBook d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 14:00:15
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less dystopian and more real-world as companies like Waymo -- the driverless arm of Google parent company Alphabet -- expand into more cities. And on Tuesday, the company launched its partnership with Uber in Austin, Texas, so users can hail a robotaxi right from the rideshare app. Users can now take a driverless ride across 37 square miles of the city, with plans for future expansions. Waymo currently operates fully autonomous rides for the general public
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 05:00:00
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Look out: there’s a new fastest robot in the world. A Maserati MC20 Coupe with no one in the driver’s seat set a new land speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7mph (318km/h) during an automotive event at the Kennedy Space Center last week. The Maserati was running self-driving software developed by Politecni
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Look out: there’s a new fastest robot in the world. A Maserati MC20 Coupe with no one in the driver seat set a new land speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7 mph (318 km/h) during an automotive event at the Kennedy Space Center last week. The Maserati was running self-driving software developed by Politecni
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Avride sidewalk bots will start delivering restaurant orders and groceries in central Tokyo this week through a partnership with e-commerce giant Rakuten, the latest commercial expansion by the Yandex spinout into Northeast Asia. The Austin-based autonomous vehicle startup is one of four projects under Nebius Group, a Netherlands-based company formerly called Yandex NV that sold off its Russian businesses in 2024 for about $5.2 billion. Since then, Avride has pressed forward with its autonomou
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Toyota Motor has completed the first phase construction of a futuristic city southwest of Tokyo that will weave new technologies into urban living. It unveiled the development on Saturday on a site that will eventually cover 175 acres or more than 700,000 square meters. The Japanese automaker started work in 2021 on what it calls "Woven City" in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Toyota says the urban area will showcase different aspects of mobility for residents. It will have separate roads fo
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