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Crowd Sets Waymo Self-Driving Car on Fire: ‘It Was So Torched… They Couldn’t Even Recognise the Vehicle’
A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car with no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained. According to Waymo, the self-driving car was navigating through Chinatown at about 9 p.m. when it was…
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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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Cruise Robotaxis Require Remote Human Assistance Every 4 to 5 Miles
Things just keep getting worse for Cruise, the troubled robotaxi company that once dreamed of being a leader in the autonomous driving industry. Only a month after a violent collision forced the company to ground all of its fleets nationwide, multiple news outlets have reported that the company’s “self driving” cars are…well…not actually driving themselves,…
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A Robotaxi Was Blamed for a San Francisco Man’s Death But He Was Actually Hit By a City Bus
A city report partially blamed Cruise robotaxis for a homeless man’s death. However, officials have since clarified that’s not the whole story.