A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car carrying no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained.
One of Waymo’s driverless cars collided with a cyclist in San Francisco this week because it apparently didn’t see the human until it was too late.
Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian, shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an
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Apple has yet to confirm the existence of the Apple Car, but it appears this thing hit another snag on the way to its big reveal.
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If you’re driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company announced Monday.
Last year, California gave autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo permission to operate driverless robotaxis on the streets of San Francisco. Almost immediately, the cars demonstrated they weren’t ready for the road.
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