Cruise, the self-driving arm of General Motors, said late today it had halted its robotaxi service across the US and would no longer operate its vehicles without safety drivers behind the wheel. That decision to hit the brakes comes two days after California regulators suspended the driverless-car company’s permit in San Francisco, alleging that Cruise … Read more
Cruise says the vehicle then stopped again. Emergency responders arrived soon after, according to TV station NBC Bay Area, and the San Francisco Fire Department said the victim was “extricated from beneath the vehicle using rescue tools.” The department said she was transported to the hospital with multiple traumatic injuries. The human driver of the … Read more
A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Heather Somerville | Reuters The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday suspended Cruise’s deployment and testing permits for its autonomous vehicles, effective immediately. The news follows a barrage of safety concerns and incidents since … Read more
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A self-driving automotive and a hearth truck crashed in San Francisco Thursday evening. Now, the California Division of Motor Autos desires the tech firm to lower the variety of self-driving automobiles on the street. Tweet might have been deleted On August 17, in line with a press release emailed to Mashable from Cruise, a subsidiary … Read more
BMW Group Only a decade in the past, the idea of self-driving automobiles may need appeared like one thing out of a science fiction film, however now a lot progress is being made that tangible steps are placing increasingly more autonomous autos on the street. The most recent instance is the partnership between BMW Group … Read more
Whereas Vasquez and Uber could discover some closure within the plea deal, self-driving professional Bryant Walker Smith says the NTSB ought to revisit the Slack subject to seek out the reality. “I don’t need the story of the primary automated automobile fatality to be a lie. Or be a matter of disputes,” says Walker Smith, … Read more
Autonomous trucking firm TuSimple final week efficiently accomplished a completely autonomous semi-truck run on public roads in China with no human current within the car and with out human intervention. The corporate claims to have accomplished China’s first so-called “driver-out” run. That is the second time TuSimple has pulled the driving force out of operations … Read more