California Permits GM’s Driverless Car to Cruise Streets of San Francisco November 2, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and in October, Cruise became the first to receive a permit...
Waymo Issues Self-Driving Car Incident Score Card for Phoenix Area October 30, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee Self-driving tech company Waymo, which this month opened its driverless taxi service in the Phoenix suburbs to the public, on...
Self-Driving’s Latest Turn: GM’s Cruise Seeks OK for Cars Without Steering Wheel, Pedals October 22, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee and David Shepardson Self-driving car maker Cruise said on Wednesday it and majority shareholder General Motors Co. would seek U.S. regulatory approval in...
California Permits GM’s Driverless Car to Cruise Streets of San Francisco October 16, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and on Thursday Cruise became the first to receive a permit...
As Wildfires Spread, Public Safety Tech Startups Lack Venture Capitalists’ Backing September 24, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Nathan Frandino Silicon Valley’s innovation engine has been slow to produce useful new tools to help firefighters like Dave Winnacker extinguish the...
Self-Driving Vehicles, Robots Showing What They Can Do in Contactless Deliveries May 4, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Nathan Frandino Self-driving cars, trucks, sidewalk robots and shuttles are rolling out of the labs and parking garages and onto American streets...
How Big Tech Hopes to Turn Cars into Connected Revenue Machines January 9, 2020 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Stephen Nellis Technology companies transformed smartphones and televisions into continuous fountains of revenue. Now, big tech wants to work with automakers to...
Data Firm Palantir’s Partnership with Japan’s Sompo Insurance Targets Health, Cyber November 18, 2019 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Sam Nussey Silicon Valley data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. has established a joint venture with Japanese insurance holding company Sompo Holdings...
Shanghai Subway Trains Collide Injuring More than 270 September 27, 2011 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Royston Chan Two subway trains collided in Shanghai on Tuesday injuring more than 270 passengers, 20 critically, prompting public anger two months...