Driverless taxis have been in the news plenty recently, and never for good reasons. The name Cruise has been a Morning Shift mainstay, due to all the fallout from a car dragging a woman along the ground. One name, though, hasn’t come up much in recent reports: Waymo. AAA Offers an Emergency Charging Solution When … Read more
Waymo After several years of testing its autonomous vehicles on city streets without a human engineer behind the wheel, Waymo will send its fully driverless cars onto freeways for the first time. The Alphabet-owned company announced the move in a blog post on Monday, signaling a notable expansion of its driverless car program. Waymo has … Read more
It’s not getting any easier for beleaguered autonomous-car startup Cruise after a report on Tuesday suggested its main backer, General Motors (GM), is about to slash funding for the startup. Cruise recently suspended nationwide testing on U.S. streets following a string of troubling incidents involving its autonomous cars, the most serious of which occurred in … Read more
Mahershala Ali, Myha’la Herrold, Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, left to right, star in Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind.” The movie centers around the families’ responses to surreal, apocalyptic events. Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s hit streaming movie “Leave the World Behind” has its share of outlandish, apocalyptic mayhem. But it turns out that one of the … Read more
