Mar 18, 2021 | Drones, Safety
The skies above the Israeli town of Hadera were abuzz with delivery drones on Wednesday as national authorities tested a central control room for safely coordinating the small pilotless aircraft with each other as well as with planes and helicopters. “It is a...
Mar 11, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Alphabet’s self-driving car unit Waymo is claiming that its artificial intelligence could have avoided or mitigated the majority of a set of fatal accidents. In a white paper published Monday, the company simulated 72 deadly-crashes that occurred between in 2008...
Feb 18, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
After successfully opening Waymo One as a public driverless ride-hailing service in Phoenix, Waymo is beginning to test its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco. Over on the official Waymo blog, the company shared that one of its major goals has been...
Dec 3, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
Waymo plans to open a new testing site in Ohio for its driverless autonomous vehicles that will focus on dense, urban areas, the company said Tuesday. The new site being built at the Transportation Research Center near Columbus will allow the company to work on motion...
Nov 19, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Government, Regulation, Safety
U.S. auto safety regulators said Thursday they are opening a formal regulatory proceeding that could eventually result in the adoption of new safety standards for autonomous vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was issuing an...
Nov 19, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
Motional, the joint autonomous driving partnership between Aptiv and Hyundai, today announced it has received permission from the state of Nevada to test its autonomous cars without a driver behind the wheel. The company says this is part of the completion of a...
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