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Cruise enhances its robotaxis for safer emergency vehicle interactions

Ryan Daws — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:12:33 +0000

Smart mobility firm Cruise is aiming to improve safety by enhancing how its robotaxis handles interactions with emergency vehicles. Cruise has amassed a wealth of data of over five million miles of driverless journeys that it uses to demonstrate the capacity of autonomous vehicles to enhance road safety when compared to conventional human driving. However,... Read more »

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Waymo’s vehicles are confused by San Francisco’s fog

Ryan Daws — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:19:47 +0000

The latest challenge that autonomous vehicles are struggling with is driving in fog. Five of Waymo’s fully driverless vehicles had to pull over by the side of a residential street in San Francisco on Tuesday when they encountered the city’s notoriously dense fog. The incident caused significant traffic issues, as motorists were unable to pass... Read more »

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Wayve partners with Microsoft to scale AI for autonomous vehicles

Ryan Daws — Thu, 19 May 2022 14:03:19 +0000

London-based Wayve has partnered with Microsoft to access the supercomputing infrastructure it requires to scale its AI models for autonomous vehicles. Wayve and Microsoft already have a close relationship. Microsoft participated in Wayve’s $200 million Series B investment round and Wayze began using Azure in 2020 after its computing requirements grew beyond its in-house 12-HDD... Read more »

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Waymo and Cruise can now offer autonomous vehicle rides to the public

Fin Strathern — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:20:28 +0000

Waymo and Cruise have both received approval to offer autonomous vehicle rides to the public by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Whilst a major step in the push towards autonomous vehicles, both companies will only be allowed to operate in certain parts of the state and under specific conditions. All that remains is... Read more »

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Toyota subsidiary to acquire Lyft’s autonomous vehicle division

Ryan Daws — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:41:24 +0000

Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet has announced that it’s acquiring Lyft’s autonomous vehicle division for $550 million. The division, known as Level 5, has established itself among the leaders in the development of autonomous driving technologies. Logan Green, Co-Founder and CEO of Lyft, said: “Today’s announcement launches Lyft into the next phase of an incredible journey... Read more »

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Nuro receives first permit to operate self-driving cars commercially in California

Ryan Daws — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:56:41 +0000

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has awarded Nuro the state’s first commercial permit for self-driving cars. The permit allows Nuro to operate its autonomous vehicles commercially on the roads of two counties near the company’s Bay Area headquarters. Nuro says it will soon announce its first commercial deployment with an “established” partner. The company’s... Read more »

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Ex-Google engineer sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing autonomous car secrets

Ryan Daws — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:43:45 +0000

Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing autonomous car secrets. Levandowski was employed by Google’s self-driving car division Waymo when he transferred over 14,000 secret files to his laptop before leaving the company. The stolen files were taken to Uber, where Levandowski led the firm’s own robotaxi... Read more »

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