Waymo safety data shows fewer injury collisions in driverless cars
Waymo vehicles have an 80% reduction in injury crashes, compared with human drivers over the same distance traveled, new data shows.
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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. This has helped these companies, which mainly develop autonomous technology to equip vehicles, wi...
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 […]