Bayer Must Pay $80 Million in Monsanto Roundup Cancer Trial, Says Jury March 27, 2019 By Alexandria Sage and Tina Bellon A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded $80 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed...
Smart Car Makers See Safety Enhancements Turning Into Revenue Opportunities January 8, 2019 By Alexandria Sage As vehicles get smarter, your car will be keeping eyes on you. This week at CES, the international consumer electronics...
Waymo Self-Driving, Fare-Generating Taxis Hit the Road in Arizona December 5, 2018 By Alexandria Sage Alphabet’s Waymo on Wednesday launched a significant development in its costly, decade-long quest for autonomous transportation: self-driving taxis that actually...
Waymo Cleared to be First in California for Testing Without Backup Driver October 30, 2018 By David Shepardson and Alexandria Sage Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from the state of California to...
Daimler Deploying Self-Driving Taxis in California Test Program July 11, 2018 By Alexandria Sage German automaker Daimler AG and auto supplier Bosch Corp will deploy self-driving taxis in California’s Silicon Valley region next year...
Uber Cut Back on Safety Sensors on Volvo Involved in Fatal Accidents: Reuters March 27, 2018 By Heather Somerville, Alexandria Sage and Paul Lienert When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility...
Police Release Video of Fatal Collision of Uber Driverless Vehicle with Pedestrian March 22, 2018 By Alexandria Sage Police in Arizona on Wednesday released a short video of a fatal collision between an Uber self-driving vehicle and a...
Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California February 19, 2018 By Alexandria Sage Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc., is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving...
Trial Over Waymo Claim of Uber Trade Secrets Theft Gets Underway February 6, 2018 By Alexandria Sage Uber was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or...
Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California February 1, 2018 By Alexandria Sage Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc, is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving...