Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends / Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends Waymo is taking its robotaxis out of the U.S. for the first time as the company begins expanding testing internationally. A fleet of its autonomous vehicles will be heading first to the busy streets of Tokyo early next year, Waymo announced on Monday. It’ll outsource servicing and management … Read more
Cruise Autonomous-driving operations at Cruise look certain to end after its main backer, General Motors (GM), said it will stop funding the initiative. GM, which has owned about 90% of Cruise since 2016, announced the decision in a statement shared on Tuesday. It follows a challenging period for Cruise after one of its autonomous cars … Read more
Waymo has been testing its driverless cars in Miami intermittently for the last five years, but now it’s making serious moves to launch a robotaxi service there. The Alphabet-owned company revealed on Thursday that it’ll start testing its Jaguar I-PACE autonomous cars on the streets of the city early next year, with the aim of … Read more
Driverless, Knight Rider-style buses are set to transform UK roads, marking a significant step forward in autonomous public transportation. These self-driving vehicles, known as the StreetCAV shuttles, will soon begin navigating the streets of Central Milton Keynes, sparking excitement and curiosity among thousands eager to witness this groundbreaking innovation. The StreetCAV shuttles feature a unique, … Read more
It just got much easier to take a robotaxi ride in Los Angeles. Waymo announced on Tuesday that anyone in the California city can now take fully autonomous rides, removing the need to join a wait list. Alphabet-owned Waymo started offering paid robotaxi rides in Los Angeles earlier this year via its Waymo One app, … Read more
Chinese netizens and industry insiders closely followed Tesla’s much-anticipated “We, Robot” event on Thursday night US time, with mixed feedback given that China is already offering robotaxi services ahead of Elon Musk’s plans. Tesla live-streamed the event across almost every major Chinese social media platform, including WeChat Channels, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, and Bilibili. It … Read more
Tesla boss Elon Musk has just taken the wraps off a prototype of the automaker’s long-awaited robotaxi. Tesla’s CEO performed the unveiling at a special event at the Warner Bros Studios in Burbank, California, on Thursday night. The “Cybercab,” as Musk is calling it, sports a futuristic look and comes with butterfly doors that open … Read more
Tesla is holding a special event in California on Thursday that’s widely expected to focus on its highly anticipated robotaxi, dubbed the “Cybercab.” It announced the event, called, “We, robot,” in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. The future will be streamed live 10/10, 7pm PT https://t.co/YJEjZIYoTA — Tesla (@Tesla) October 9, 2024 … Read more
In one of the more bizarre technology tales so far this year, Waymo has apparently finally gotten its honking robocars to be quiet. The story began last week when it emerged that driverless cars owned by Waymo were keeping residents of a San Francisco neighborhood awake at night by incessantly honking their horns after they … Read more
The Chechen warlord posted a video of himself driving the vehicle, which was fitted with a gun turret, around the grounds of his presidential palace. At one point in the video, a grinning Kadyrov, wearing a black hood and draped in an ammo belt, stands behind the gun turret bolted to the roof of the … Read more
