by dankeelan | Sep 26, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
General Motors Co.’s Cruise LLC self-driving auto business is back on the roads in the Bay Area with mapping vehicles almost a year after a pedestrian accident there halted operations nationwide. Cruise said Thursday it’s deploying manual mapping vehicles...
by dankeelan | Jun 6, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Zoox, the self-driving-vehicle unit of Amazon.com Inc. will soon expand street testing to Austin, Texas, and Miami, Fla. In a blog post Wednesday, Zoox said the expansion “marks a significant step forward.” Zoox vehicles first started testing on the streets of San...
by dankeelan | Apr 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Testing
Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez have announced the introduction of a new permit program aimed at overseeing the testing of autonomous vehicles (AV) in New York City. This program is part of the...
by dankeelan | Mar 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
AAA’s latest autonomous vehicle survey shows most U.S. drivers express either fear (66%) or uncertainty (25%) about fully-self-driving vehicles. However, semi-autonomous technologies such as reverse automatic emergency braking and lane keeping assistance continue to...
by dankeelan | Feb 8, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
A few miles from Apple’s headquarters here, a gold SUV carrying a large, boxy sensor on its roof crossed a four-way intersection this summer and hung a left just like any other car on the street. But that car was one of 67 vehicles outfitted with autonomous...
by dankeelan | Jan 11, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
Waymo’s days of avoiding freeways are finally coming to an end. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its fully driverless vehicles would begin tackling the higher speeds of Phoenix’s freeways, all while ferrying passengers to and from their destinations....
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