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Waymo vehicles have an 80% reduction in injury crashes, compared with human drivers over the same distance traveled, new data shows.

Driverless Vehicles: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Aurora and California startup Gatik are among companies developing self-driving technology for vehicles that operate on set routes and have largely managed to avoid the public ire robotaxis have faced on busy city streets. This has helped these companies, which mainly develop autonomous technology to equip vehicles, win large new customers like IKEA and Walmart, as well as local governments.

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, Pennsylvania-based Aurora and California startup Gatik are among companies developing self-driving technology for vehicles that operate on set routes and have largely managed to avoid the public ire robotaxis have faced on busy city streets...

Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op is working with Kratos Defense to implement autonomous trucking of sugarbeets.

We Dunno! Public records and internal emails obtained by 404 Media have revealed that the federal government has absolutely no idea how many civilians have been hit by Cruise's driverless vehicles, which were recently recalled in entirely following multiple pedestrian collisions and the troubling revelation that Cruise deployed the cars knowing they particularly struggled to […]

It's only operating along a short route but as part of a broader system the truck is helping to make big efficiencies in areas like loading times.

NTT will deliver autonomous buses and taxis by as early as 2025, the report from Nikkei said, adding that it will invest about 10 billion yen ($66.91 million) in US transport company May Mobility.

General Motors is putting the brakes on its robotaxi business, halting its service providing driverless rides in multiple cities.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended GM Cruise’s autonomous-driving permit, halting the driverless taxi service in San Francisco.

October 24, 2023 The California Department of Motor Vehicles today issued the following statement on the immediate suspension of Cruise LLC’s deployment and driverless testing permits: Public safety remains the California DMV’s top priority, and the department’s autonomous vehicle regulations provide a framework to facilitate the safe testing and deployment of this technology on California public roads. When there is an unreasonable risk to public safety, the DMV can immediatel...