California Allows Cruise, Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service March 1, 2022 By David Shepardson The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Monday issued permits to self-driving units of General Motors and Alphabet Inc. to...
Can a Self-Driving 40-Ton Truck Be Safe? Developers Say Yes But Others Are Skeptical. January 10, 2022 By Keith Laing Shipping companies and software developers are experimenting with self-driving trucks as a way to solve a driver shortage worsened by...
GM, Alphabet Win California’s First Autonomous Permits for Passenger Rides September 30, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin, Jane Lanhee Lee and Paresh Dave General Motors Co.’s Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiaries on Thursday became the first companies to receive autonomous...
Waymo in California Getting $2.5B to Fuel Self-Driving Ambitions June 18, 2021 Waymo, the self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google, isn’t allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its...
Waymo, J.B. Hunt to Test Self-Driving Trucks in Texas June 10, 2021 U.S. truck fleet operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo will test human-supervised, self-driving trucks...
Labor Leader Urges U.S. to Require Human Drivers in Automated Vehicles May 18, 2021 By David Shepardson A senior American labor union leader will tell U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that the government should require human operators in...
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...
Waymo Driverless Taxi Now Available to Public in Phoenix October 8, 2020 By Joseph White Waymo on Thursday will relaunch and expand its fully automated, robo-taxi ride hailing service in Phoenix, rebooting its effort to...
U.S. to Publicly Share Autonomous Vehicle Testing Data June 15, 2020 By David Shepardson U.S. auto safety regulators will unveil on Monday a voluntary effort to collect and make available nationwide data on existing...
Report: Testers in California Logged 2.8M Autonomous Miles Last Year March 17, 2020 By Don Jergler Each year technology’s promise of having autonomous vehicles ruling the roads seems to be a bit more fleeting, or at...