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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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Driverless Cars Can’t Get Traffic Tickets In California
Last year, California gave autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo permission to operate driverless robotaxis on the streets of San Francisco. Almost immediately, the cars demonstrated they weren’t ready for the road. The taxis caused traffic jams, drove around in bizarre unpredictable patterns, and in at least one case, hit a pedestrian and left her…
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Remember That Letter Calling for a Pause on AI? It Didn’t Work
Top tech and business leaders begged generative AI companies to pause new developments for six months. AI companies clearly didn’t listen.
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Self-Driving Car in San Francisco Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete
When it comes to disrupting the industry, the construction industry probably isn’t the one Cruise had in mind.