robotaxis

On a recent Friday evening, a driverless car pulled up alongside an outdoor dining shed in the Mission district of San Francisco, put on its hazard lights, and waited. As traffic began to pile up behind the vehicle, a man smoking a…

Automaker GM's self-driving car Cruise AV crashed into a city bus after its self-driving software failed to predict the movement of the vehicle. The company has now issued a voluntary recall to update the software in 300 robotaxis.This…

Tesla is convening its first Investor Day event on March 1st at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, at which Elon Musk is expected to unleash upon the world his latest Master Plan for the company’s future. Expectations are high, but given…

On Tuesday, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt tweeted a short video of passengers from those two cities raving about its fully driverless vehicles as proof of a promise delivered. “Folks, we are entering the golden years of AV expansion,” he added. To…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into General Motors’ Cruise, citing incidents in which the company’s autonomous vehicles have blocked the road or caused rear-end collisions. NHTSA is…

A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2022.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S. automotive safety officials have opened a formal probe into the autonomous driving system used by General Motors'…

China search engine giant Baidu said on Monday it has obtained permits to operate fully driverless robotaxi services on open roads from two Chinese cities, the first of their kind in the country.The permits, awarded by the southwestern…

Chinese tech company Baidu announced Monday it can sell some robotaxi rides without any human staff in the vehicles.BaiduBEIJING — Chinese tech company Baidu said Monday it has become the first robotaxi operator in China to obtain permits…

More than a half dozen Cruise robotaxis stopped operating, causing a "driverless roadblock" that lasted for several hours in the US, reports TechCrunch. The company staff then arrived and manually moved the autonomous vehicles. A Cruise…

Cruise LLC, the self-driving startup majority owned by General Motors Co., won permission from California regulators to charge for rides in San Francisco, marking a seminal moment for the company and for autonomous…