MissionLocal – Waymo rolls toward San Francisco Airport. A showdown is brewing.
Mission Local reports on how Waymo is trying to inch towards providing service at SF Airport, which would provide a huge financial bonus to the company.
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Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
Robotaxi.news
Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.
Read MoreMissionLocal – Waymo rolls toward San Francisco Airport. A showdown is brewing.
Washington Post – Robot taxi riders in San Francisco targeted with a new form of harassment
Washington Post reports how robotaxis not having a human driver leads to a large number of scary situations. Apparently their metric of crashes per mile driven is simply not adequate.
TheVerge – NHTSA finally releases new rules for self-driving cars — but there’s a twist
TheVerge reports on how the Federal Government is proposing changing standards for autonomous vehicles, but that they expect a great deal of safety related data in return. At the same time, Tesla is trying to avoid having to provide the government with crash data since they have so many crashes.
NBC Bay Area – Waymo’s robotaxis surpass 25 million miles, but are they safer than humans?
NBC Bay Area reports on yet another misleading study by Waymo on how their vehicles improve safety, when they simply do not.
Reuters – Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla
Reuters reports on how the Trump transition team is trying to eliminate the requirement for Tesla to provide data on just how dangerous their "self-driving" system actually is.
Bloomberg – Microsoft Sees $800 Million Charge on Stake in GM’s Cruise
Bloomberg reports that it isn't just GM taking a financial bath by shutting down Cruise. Microsoft also had to take a $800 million charge.
