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....
by dankeelan | Jan 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Delivery, Safety, Testing
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has struck a deal with safety-focused software company Foretellix to help with virtual testing of its automated driving system, in a bid to cut R&D costs while still pushing the technology forward. The partnership, which the...
by dankeelan | Oct 26, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing, Unions
A local Teamsters union in California said the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) responded “too little, too late” in deciding to suspend permits for some driverless vehicles. The California DMV announced the “immediate”...
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