electric vehicles
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Waymo’s 70-MPH Robot Roadrunners Hit US Desert Highways This Month
If you’re driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company announced Monday. The driverless robotaxi service, from the same parent company as Google, is branching out from local routes and will start…
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San Francisco Begs California to Pause Waymo & Cruise Robotaxi Infestation
The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise. TechCrunch reports that San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a motion with the California Public Utilities Commission…
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Human Pleads Guilty in First Ever Self-Driving Pedestrian Death
Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber vehicle that was the first-ever involved in a pedestrian fatality, has pleaded guilty to endangerment in the criminal case that followed the crash. The guilty plea, filed nearly five years after Vasquez’s fatal collision with a woman crossing a street with her bike, provides an answer in…
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Two Researchers Dead After EU-Backed Experimental Hybrid Explodes
The project sought to convert ICE vehicles to hybrids, through the addition of electric motors, batteries, and solar panels.