Dec 14, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Rideshare, Safety
A quest for lower costs and efficiently moving goods and groups of people is pushing demand for driverless technology in trucks and shuttles, even as robotaxis battle renewed doubts after an October accident involving a General Motors Cruise car. Pittsburgh,...
Dec 7, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles
Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous vehicles how to make “good” decisions. The work is designed...
Dec 7, 2023 | Auto Industry, Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
When TuSimple went public in 2021 it was flying high as the leading self-driving trucks developer in the United States. Now — after a string of internal controversies and the loss of a critical partnership with truck manufacturer Navistar — TuSimple is exiting the...
Nov 30, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Mounting concerns over self-driving cars – headlined by allegations autonomous vehicle maker Cruise misled the DMV about an accident in San Francisco that left a pedestrian seriously injured – have some questioning whether the state needs new laws and new watchdogs to...
Nov 30, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Defense, Military
The Pentagon is embarking on an ambitious project, known as Replicator, with the goal of deploying thousands of AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026, as it seeks to keep pace with China’s military advancements in artificial intelligence. This move represents a...
Nov 30, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles
In an article for The New York Times, Yiwen Lu describes how driverless vehicles are creating headaches for city workers and officials and, in some cases, putting residents in danger. “In San Francisco and Austin, Texas, where passengers can hail...
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