China Has The U.S. Beat On Autonomous Driving
Photo: XPeng Here in the United States, we’re big fans of throwing good money after bad when it comes to self driving. Myriad companies with myriad approaches are all trying …
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California Cities Are Attempting To Wrestle Back Control Of The Streets From Self-Driving Car Companies
Californians have had enough of self-driving cars running roughshod over two of their largest cities, and now their legislature is doing something about it. California Senate Bill 915 could allow …
Americans Starting To Realize Self-Driving Cars Aren’t Coming
Photo: Cruise For years, it felt like no amount of screaming that Teslas couldn’t actually drive themselves would ever get through to regular people. They’d heard from their uncle or …
This Was The Dire State Of AVs or Self-Driving Cars In 2023
Photo: Josh Edelson (Getty Images) Either the world is not ready for self-driving cars, or self-driving cars are not ready for the world. After all the avoidable crashes and injuries …
Driverless Cars Can Break The Law But Won’t Be Ticketed In California
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Autonomous cars have been hitting public roads in a handful of cities around the United States, but the driverless phenomenon has raised one particularly perplexing …
Mercedes Gets Approval For Turquoise Automated Driving Lights
Mercedes-Benz is the first automaker to gain approval to sell a Level 3 automated driving system in the United States; the first customer-owned S-Class and EQS sedans in California and …
Woman Hit By Cruise Robotaxi Was Dragged 20 Feet
On October 2, 2023, a woman was run over and pinned to the ground by a Cruise robotaxi. Given the recent string of very public malfunctions the robotaxis have been …
Update To GM’s Cruise Robotaxis Will Try To Stop Them From Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles
General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi company says its fleet is now better equipped to deal with emergency vehicles after a number of – let’s say – incidents, including a crash involving …
Public Opinion Is Souring On Self-Driving Cars Due To Crashes
The public’s trust in self-driving cars has declined for the second year in a row, according to a study conducted by J.D. Power and MIT. The growing distrust applies to …
Cruise CEO Thinks The Robotaxi Hate Is ‘Overblown’
What do you get when you have a company create, develop and test a technology no one asked for with obvious technical issues in the fifth largest city in the …