NY Times – Driverless Big Rigs Are Coming to American Highways, and Soon
NY Times reports on how automous trucks are coming to certain highways (Texas) soon. But no one knows if they will cause serious safety problems due to phantom braking.
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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.
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CBS Austin – Waymo driverless cars stop between railroad and crossing gates
CBS Austin reports on how a Waymo vehicle stopped past crossing gates, and was missed by a train by just a few inches.
CBS Austin – Video captures Waymo driving in wrong lane near MLK and I-35
CBS Austin reports that a Waymo decided to drive in the wrong lane again, against oncoming traffic.
FastCompany – Uncovered records reveal the hidden costs of Waymo robotaxis on San Francisco streets
FastCompany looks at a database of problems the San Francisco transit agency has had with Waymos, and it turns out to be far worse than Waymo lets on to.
SF Standard – Supervisors grill Waymo about 1,500 stalled cars during December blackout
SF Standard reports that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors grilled Waymo on the epic disaster when 1,500 Waymos got stuck during a power outage. Waymo has still not acknowledged that a large part of the problem was that cellular communications completely went down for swaths of San Francisco once the backup batteries for the cell towers ran out of juice. Waymo's only solution for this problem is not talking about.
SF Standard – Robot turtles: Waymo’s next-gen cars could be buggy Hyundai EVs
SF Standard reports that Waymo is planning on switching to Iioniq 5 cars, but those vehicles have been found to be quite unreliable. Not ideal when you are trying to operate a fleet of them, mostly remotely.
