Waymo’s driverless taxis keep making incremental progress, while others flounder
Waymo keeps (driverless) trucking along. The Alphabet division made a couple of announcements this week meant to highlight the progress — albeit incremental…
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Driverless cars aren’t going away, but we need to lower our expectations about them
The driverless car startups that haven’t run out of money, gone out of business, or been bought out want you to know that driverless cars aren’t going away.…
Ford thinks driver assist is a safer bet than driverless cars, but it’s fooling itself
When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it cited as one of its…
Argo.ai, driverless startup backed by Ford and VW, is shutting down
Argo AI, the self-driving startup backed by Ford and Volkswagen, is shutting down, The Verge has learned. Employees were notified that an announcement would…
Ikea is trialing driverless truck deliveries in Texas
Ikea has teamed up with Kodiak Robotics, a company that's working on self-driving technology for long-haul trucking, to test driverless deliveries from its…
Loblaws starts transporting goods from its distribution facility in driverless trucks
Loblaws Canada, in partnership with Gatik, is looking to scare drivers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The Canadian supermarket chain and the…
Waymo’s driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix
Waymo’s fully driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix, five months after the Alphabet-owned company expanded its service area to…
Your next Lyft in Las Vegas might be a driverless EV
Motional’s driverless is entering service earlier than expected. On Tuesday, the company and Lyft announced that the vehicle is ready to begin offering…
Driverless Cars Shouldn’t Be a Race
I grind my teeth when the metaphor of “a race” is used in discussions about self-driving vehicle technology.Companies developing computer-piloted car…
Baidu rolls out driverless taxi service in two Chinese cities
Baidu has rolled out commercial driverless taxi services in the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Chongqing, expanding the transport option beyond the country's…