Most Americans Wary of Self-Driving Cars as Trust in Tesla Wanes: Study
Getty Images A few years ago, it seemed like only a matter of time before we could choose to travel in self-driving electric cars. That dream is now crashing down as the EV transition stumbles, and...
View ArticleWaymo AVs Recalled After Hitting Same Truck Two Separate Times Within Minutes
Waymo Google-backed driverless taxi firm Waymo has recalled software across its entire fleet following an unusual pair of crashes in December. Two of its vehicles managed to hit the same truck just...
View ArticleWho Killed the Electric Car? Apple, This Time
Apple CarPlay in use in a Porsche Cayenne. Porsche After a decade in pursuit of building an autonomous car for the masses, then merely an electric one, Apple has reportedly shuttered its vehicle...
View ArticleFord’s BlueCruise Hands-Free Driving Assist Under Investigation After Fatal...
Ford The National Transportation Safety Board has announced it will investigate a fatal crash that may have involved Ford’s advanced hands-free driving assist technology, BlueCruise. It could be the...
View ArticleCruise Robotaxis’ Road to Redemption Will Start in Phoenix
A Cruise robotaxi operating in San Francisco with a human safety driver behind the wheel in 2019. Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images If you feel like you haven’t heard any news on...
View ArticleFord’s Hands-Free BlueCruise Was Active in Fatal Crash, Officials Say
Ford The National Transportation Safety Board has found that Ford’s hands-free highway driving assist BlueCruise was active during a fatal crash in February. Its investigation places one of the...
View ArticleSelf-Driving Cars Banned in British Columbia
Mario Tama/Getty One of the biggest provinces in Canada is making the use of autonomous vehicles illegal on public roads. British Columbia has banned self-driving vehicles that exceed an SAE autonomy...
View ArticleTesla Faces Fraud Investigation From DOJ, SEC Over ‘Full Self-Driving’ Claims
Brandon Bell via Getty Images For almost a decade now, Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have repeatedly promised that its automated driving assists like Autopilot and “Full-Self Driving Beta” are safer...
View ArticleFord Super Duty Driver Lies Down in Back Seat While Going 84 MPH on Cruise...
Cameron Crawford, @__c.crawford__ on Instagram Among the most dangerous new kinds of bad drivers are those that think self-driving cars exist. They’ve been mostly confined to Teslas so far, but it...
View ArticleWaymo Under Investigation for Driverless Car Crashes and Traffic Violations
Kew News Network via @gabrielpabon on Instagram Cruise’s pedestrian-dragging scandal last fall left Google-backed Waymo with the cleanest image in the driverless tech space. That didn’t last long...
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