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
SF News Google Asking Judge To Keep Uber's Autonomous Cars Off The Road The latest salvo in what could be a very long and drawn out battle between Alphabet-owned self-driving car startup Waymo and Uber comes in a court filing formally asking a federal judge to
SF News Uber Will Quit Greyballing And Has Self-Driving Permits And Is Very Good Now, Okay? Hope everyone is ready to download Uber again, because these folks are back on track! For starters, after the $70-billion valued ride-hailing company was called out by a report in the New York
SF News Nation's First Driverless Shuttles Begin Ferrying Workers Around Bay Area Office Park On Monday, two autonomous passenger shuttles built by the French company EasyMile began picking up passengers to move them around the Bishop Ranch office park in San Ramon, 35 miles east of San
SF News Oh, So NOW Uber Wants DMV Permits For Self-Driving Car Tests In CA Two months after deploying self-driving cars to pick up customers in San Francisco with disregard that bordered on contempt for DMV permits, the company is abruptly hitting reverse. The San Jose Mercury News
SF News Self-Driving Uber That Was Caught On Video Running Red Light Was Driving Itself You'll recall that immediately after launching their self-driving car program in SF in December, Uber had a PR problem involving one of those cars that was caught on a taxi's dash cam blowing
SF News Uber Self-Driving Cars Are Back In SF, But They're Not Self-Driving, Uber Promises You thought we were rid of them when they got hauled off to Arizona last month, but Uber's self-driving cars are back on SF streets after barely a month. As CNet reports, the
SF News Tacolicious, Southern Pacific Brewing Top 2016 Lyft Destinations December is almost over, which means it's that time of year when everyone's favorite brands drop some variation of the 2016 "top ten" list. Not wanting to be left out of the fun,
SF News Self-Driving Ubers Depart San Francisco On The Back Of Self-Driving Trucks Just over a week after the company launched its self-driving service in San Francisco to much fanfare, Uber executives today ordered their autonomous Volvo SUVs packed up and shipped out of state to
SF News Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the
SF News Mayor Considering Legal Action As Self-Driving Ubers Continue To Roam SF Streets With Uber executives vowing to keep their self-driving cars on San Francisco streets in the face of opposition from both local and state officials, Mayor Ed Lee is exploring the possibility of taking
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
SF News Uber Ignores Mayor Lee's Demand That It Cease Unpermitted Self-Driving Ride Service Mayor Ed Lee stepped into the self-driving fray yesterday, issuing a statement demanding that Uber cease picking up passengers in the company's autonomous Volvo SUVs immediately. As the Chronicle reports, the Mayor's words
SF News Uber Blames Its Drivers As More Reports Of Self-Driving Cars Running Red Lights Surface Uber's San Francisco self-driving car launch had a rocky first day. First, the California DMV told the company that, despite its protestations to the contrary, it still needed to acquire permits to operate
SF News State Regulators Tell Uber It Must Immediately Stop Self-Driving Car Program Uber's self-driving car program, launched this morning in San Francisco, is experiencing a bit of whiplash. According to the Associated Press, California state regulators just announced that Uber must cease picking up passengers
SF News Uber Says 'FU' To DMV, Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars Without Approval Uber's self-driving cars are now picking up passengers on the streets of San Francisco. Starting today, the company will make its autonomous vehicles available to customers hailing an UberX ride through the app.
SF News Instead Of Making Its Own Driverless Cars, Google Will Use Chrysler Minivans With regard to plans for the development of its own driverless car, Google parent company Alphabet is putting its foot on the brakes, although that idiom doesn't really apply because the company's original
SF News Self-Driving Car Company Cancels Product In A Huff At First Sign Of Regulation Give me completely unregulated self-driving cars or give me death. That's the tenor of a move by much-buzzed-about San Francisco startup Comma.ai to suddenly shut down a supposedly soon-to-launch product after receiving
SF News All Teslas Will Be Autonomous-Ready From Here On Out, And They're Banned From Uber And Lyft Starting today, all Tesla vehicles produced at the company's Fremont, California factory will have the capacity for fully autonomous driving, though they won't exercise those capabilities until the company makes updates "over the
