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The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise.
Self-driving cars are one of the funniest broken promises of the modern age. Far are we from the fantasy of The Jetsons and Total Recall, self-driving vehicles may be some of the dumbest creatures to roll across planet Earth. One such car found itself stuck in wet cement while cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday.
Nascent robotaxi services Waymo and Cruise are going to be out in force on the Streets of San Francisco like rambunctious, autonomous, teenaged hooligans after a state public utilities body granted the companies license to drive out at all hours of the day and night, even without a safety driver behind the wheel.
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Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber vehicle that was the first-ever involved in a pedestrian fatality, has pleaded guilty to endangerment in the criminal case that followed the crash. The guilty plea, filed nearly five years after Vasquez’s fatal collision with a woman crossing a street with her bike,…
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