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GM’s Cruise Attempts Comeback for Its Driverless Fleet—With Human Drivers First
General Motors’ Cruise is attempting to get its self-driving cars back on the road. But for now, humans will stay in the driver’s seat. Cruise, which suspended driverless operations nationwide ...
Robot, take the wheel: What you need to know about autonomous vehicles rolling out across the U.S.
Waymo, the industry-leading robotaxi company, currently operates in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and is coming to Atlanta and Austin via an Uber partnership later this year. Waymo has also ...
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Cash cow to money pit: Why GM decided to let Cruise go
On Oct. 2, 2023, a Nissan Sentra hit a pedestrian in San Francisco and pushed her into the path of an oncoming Cruise driverless car. The Cruise vehicle braked hard but hit her, then proceeded to ...
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Riding Through Austin in a Cruise Driverless Taxi: I Had Questions
And another, and another. Cruise, the driverless car company, recently launched driverless taxi service (also called robotaxis) using Chevy Bolt electric cars , in Austin. So I went downtown to ...
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How Do Self-Driving Cars Work?
These range from Level 0, or a car without even basic driver assistance technology like anti-lock brakes (ABS), stability control, or cruise control, to Level 5, a driverless car that performs all ...
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Robotaxis stressing cities out
After one episode where a driverless car from Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, ran over and dragged a pedestrian, California regulators ordered the company to suspend its service in October.