Business & Tech Waymo Unleashes ‘Fully Driverless’ Taxis (In Phoenix Only), Elon Musk Stews With Jealous Tweets The Google-Alphabet-Waymo dream of fully autonomous taxicabs is a reality as of today, but only in a small patch of the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Business & Tech Day Around the Bay: Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Charged In Arizona Killing A federally funded Berkeley lab has stopped its diversity training due to Trump's order, Tom Steyer is selling his Pac Heights mansion for $11 million, and Oregon is being threatened with dry lightning.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Company Cruise Using Food Bank Deliveries To Get Around Shelter-In-Place Restrictions In the long list of business operations now allowed in San Francisco, autonomous-vehicle testing isn't included. But Cruise, a self-driving car service headquartered in SOMA, is using their cars for an essential service — food delivery — to sidestep current shelter-in-place restrictions.
Business & Tech Uber’s Self-Driving Volvos Resumed Testing in San Francisco Today They’re only in the Richmond District, with a human safety driver onboard, but the Uber self-driving cars are back in town starting today.
Business & Tech Uber Gets Back in the California DMV's Good Graces With New Self-Driving Car Permit A little over three years after it unleashed some self-driving cars in San Francisco without any legal permit to do so, Uber has just been granted a new permit to test the autonomous vehicles on California streets.
Business & Tech Star Google Engineer Who Left Waymo Team To Launch Uber's Self-Driving Cars Charged With Theft Of Trade Secrets In a federal case dating back to 2017, former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski was charged this month with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets.
SF News Waymo Very Close To Launching Self-Driving Cars Without Humans Behind Wheel Waymo may be gearing up to get self-driving cars — without human "safety drivers" — on the road by as early as this fall, according to The Information. If this seems a little soon to
SF News Lyft To Offer Free Rides In Self-Driving Cars Later This Year In SF The supposedly kinder, gentler, and self-described “woke” rideshare service Lyft has been feasting on the entrails of scandal-ravaged competitor Uber as of late. But a new self-driving car announcement from Lyft today signifies
SF News Apple Ditches Self-Driving Car Dreams At last count, the roster of tech companies currently developing some sort of self-driving car, or the underlying technology to run one, includes Google, Uber, Tesla, and Lyft, in addition to blue-chip car
SF News Report: Self-Driving Cars Are Hilariously Easy To Fool Hell hath no fury like tech bros being told that their self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning technologies are overhyped and nowhere near ready for market. But with that in mind, SFist will
SF News Lyft Gets In On Self-Driving Car Game With 'Level Five' & New Workforce In Palo Alto Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they say more
SF News Self-Driving Car Was The Grand Marshal Of Concord's July 4 Parade The robots are indeed already taking our jobs, at least the job of Independence Day Parade grand marshal in the East Bay community of Concord. ABC 7 reports that an autonomous car was
SF News [Update] Uber Maybe Knew Self-Driving Exec Had Waymo's Stolen Files The latest court filing by Uber in the self-driving technology case brought by Waymo has them thoroughly throwing former self-driving vehicle division head Anthony Levandowski under the bus. The filing suggests that Uber,
SF News Self-Driving Car And Bicyclist Were Involved In Collision Last Month The incident sounds relatively minor, but we have reports today, via mandatory DMV reporting, of a collision between a self-driving car and a bicyclist on the streets of San Francisco in May which
SF News Uber Fires Self-Driving Car Exec Anthony Levandowski Over Google Lawsuit Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber and reported close pal of CEO Travis Kalanick, has been terminated from the position he's held just over a year, originally heading up the
SF News Uber Changes Tune, Threatens To Fire Self-Driving Exec If He Doesn't Waive His Fifth Amendment Rights In a somewhat surprising turn of events this week, Uber's General Counsel Salle Yoo sent self-driving car division executive Anthony Levandowski a sternly worded letter, dated May 15, asking him to waive his
SF News Lyft Teams With Google's Waymo In Hopes of Driving Uber Under In the ongoing war between Uber and Lyft for ride-sharing supremacy in the not-so distant future where human drivers are rendered obsolete, the latest battle has gone in favor of Lyft. The New
SF News Judge Refers Waymo V. Uber Case For Possible Criminal Investigation An initial decision has come down from a federal judge in the case brought by Google's self-driving car division Waymo against competitor Uber, and the judge has denied Uber's efforts to avoid having
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/Alphabet, and some
SF News Self-Driving Car Tests Without Human Backup Drivers One Step Closer After Tense Meeting The California DMV stands to further ease its regulations on autonomous vehicles at the urging of automakers, Reuters reports following a heated public hearing in Sacramento Tuesday. Representatives from the Association for Global
SF News Apple Gets Permit To Test A Self-Driving Car We've been hearing that Apple was quietly getting into the self-driving car game since early 2015, and in August of that year, we learned they had already sought out a testing site in
SF News Uber Exec Accused Of Stealing Google Self-Driving Car Secrets Pleads Fifth Over Criminal Charges Concerns Anthony Levandowski, an Uber executive whom CEO Travis Kalanick once called his "brother from another mother," is asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed by his former employer, Google. Levandowski's lawyers
SF News Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars Off The Road After One Flips Over In Arizona Collision BREAKING: Self-driving Uber vehicle on it’s side after a collision in Tempe, AZ. Photos by @fresconews user Mark Beach pic.twitter.com/5NCF2KG0rW— Fresco News (@fresconews) March 25, 2017 Uber once again
SF News Autonomous Ubers Drive Under A Mile On Average Before A Human Has To Take Over Now that Uber finally got those California DMV permits it originally said it totally didn't need, it's back testing some driverless cars under DMV supervision in the state. That means we're due to
SF News Newly Proposed CA DMV Rules Would Let Self-Driving Cars Hit The Roads Without Humans Get out of the way, people: The California Department of Motor Vehicles released its updated proposed regulations for autonomous vehicles "post-testing deployment" on Friday, and they relax a number of rules and restrictions