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Waymo's driverless cars are hitting Phoenix's freeways at long last
Waymo has announced that its Waymo One driverless cars will be hitting the highways in Phoenix soon. The driverless vehicles were already on regular Phoenix streets.
GM to cut spending on Cruise driverless vehicles by ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’
GM has announced it is massively cutting spending on its Cruise driverless car platform, which had been used to operate robotaxis in California. This comes after a pedestrian collision that forced the state’s DMV to pull Cruise’s driverless permits.
Waymo brings its fleet of new self-driving SUVs to Austin
Waymo is bringing a fleet of self-driving EVs to Austin to conduct tests of its driverless technology. The company is testing its new fifth-generation autonomous Jaguar SUVs all over the city, as an homage to the company’s first foray into driverless technology back in 2015. Waymo already offers self-driving taxi services in San Francisco and Phoenix.
Lyft and Motional to offer driverless taxi rides in Los Angeles
Lyft and Motional have announced plans to launch a driverless ride-hailing service in Los Angeles using Ioniq 5 EV Level 4 robotaxis.
Ikea is trialing driverless truck deliveries in Texas
Ikea has teamed up with Kodiak Robotics to use autonomous trucks to deliver its products from a distribution center near Houston to a retail store near Dallas.
Cruise begins charging fares for its driverless taxi service in San Francisco
It will expand its paid passenger service to offer rides to more people every week.
Ford's Argo AI begins driverless vehicle operations in Austin and Miami
On Tuesday, Ford's Argo AI announced it had begun driverless operations in Austin and Miami.
An autonomous Cruise vehicle left police confused when they tried to pull it over
The future is a weird place.
GM's Cruise now offers public driverless taxi rides in San Francisco
GM's Cruise is now offering driverless taxi rides to the public in San Francisco, although you'll need to sign up for a chance at a free trip.
GM's Cruise starts testing fully driverless taxi rides in San Francisco
GM's self-driving Cruise division has launched its fully driverless robo-taxi service in San Francisco, with co-founder Kyle Vogt getting the first ride.
Pininfarina's 'virtual' concept car features a holographic AR display
Pininfarina has unveiled a virtual concept car called the Teorema that features an autonomous driving mode and a holographic AR display.
Yandex's autonomous cars have driven over six million miles in 'challenging conditions'
Yandex's self-driving cars have now driven over 10 million kilometres, mostly on Moscow's icy roads.
Baidu earns permission to test paid driverless taxi in Cangzhou
Cangzhou granted the company's Apollo Go service permission to run commercialization tests with 35 cars.
Lyft aims to bring fully driverless cars to multiple US cities in 2023
Motional has helped the company carry out more than 100,000 self-driving rides.
Baidu approved for fully driverless road tests in Beijing
It's the first time China's capital city has granted such permits.
Motional's fully driverless cars are coming to Nevada's roads for testing
The state has agreed to let the company trial AVs with no safety drivers.
Waymo suspends all services until at least April 7th
Waymo put most of its services on hold earlier this week, except for fully driverless rides in Phoenix and some testing, to slow the spread of COVID-19. Just a few days later, the Alphabet company has opted to suspend all of its services until April 7th at the very least.
Waymo goes dark except for fully driverless rides
Waymo is joining Uber and Lyft in curtailing its ride services to limit the spread of COVID-19, with a notable exception. The Alphabet-owned company has paused both Waymo One service with human overseers in Phoenix as well as its California self-driving tests in order to protect the "health and safety" of passengers and the community. However, it planned to continue its fully driverless service in Phoenix as well as its UPS delivery services and truck testing, at least "for now." The company believed it could respect local and CDC health guidelines on social isolation with no human drivers involved.
US DOT approves Nuro's next-gen driverless delivery vehicle design
Today, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) approved a regulatory exemption for Nuro's next-generation self-driving delivery vehicle, R2. The exemption allows Nuro to begin public road testing and to prepare for deliveries to customers' homes.
Cruise's self-driving electric shuttle is made for ridesharing
Cruise still isn't ready to say when its autonomous vehicle will be available, but now it's shown off the Origin, a GM-built electric shuttle van that doesn't have a steering wheel or pedals. Instead it's fully self-driving, intended to be a shareable, modular vehicle that can handle being on the road all the time. It's basically a minibus, with three seats at each end that face each other and split sliding doors that open up like a subway car. Cruise hasn't revealed details like the battery capacity or cost, but claims that "the average San Franciscan household driving themselves or using ridesharing" will see savings of $5,000 per year thanks to the vehicle. According to execs, more information on manufacturing for this "production" vehicle will be coming soon. Also, because of its modular design, they think it will be better suited for use as a robotaxi than regular passenger cars, and that its sensors will have "superhuman" ability to spot pedestrians and navigate in bad weather. They claim it's "what you'd build if there were no cars." Lofty promises -- hopefully we'll find out soon how the company plans to fulfill them. Others, including Ford, Waymo, Uber and Tesla, just to name a few, are also chasing the autonomous-cars-as-a-service model in different ways, and it's still unclear who may get their first.
