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
SF News Aggressive Drivers Looking Forward To Bullying Self-Driving Cars While there is all kinds of pie-in-the-sky talk about the future of self-driving cars, one generally agreed upon impact of any potential widespread adoption is safer roads. With safety-conscious software making the decisions,
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Broadsided In Mountain View Crash In another example of what is starting to become a rather common occurrence, a Google self-driving car was involved in a collision this past Friday. However, in a marked departure from previous wrecks
SF News Apple Reportedly In Talks To Buy Schmancy Car Maker McLaren With a $610 billion market capitalization, Apple is rather wealthy, so wouldn't you say it's high time the company bought an expensive car for itself? The Financial Times reports that Apple may seek
SF News Tesla Announces Shift In Autopilot Feature, Elon Musk Insists It Now Could Have Prevented Fatal Crash Electric-car maker Tesla yesterday announced big changes to the way its cars see the world while in autopilot mode, and company CEO Elon Musk went so far as to say going forward the
SF News Ford Is Buying SF-Based Shuttle Service Chariot; Also They're Taking Over Bay Area Bike Share Automobile Goliath Ford today announced it will buy Chariot, the private shuttle service based in San Francisco born from startup incubator Y Combinator, in a move that speaks to the company's stated goal
SF News Video: Uber's Self-Driving Vehicles Hit The Streets Of SF A video posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17am PDT Heads up! Uber's autonomous cars have arrived, and they appear to taking test runs all over San Francisco.
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF News Ford Promises Self-Driving Taxis With No Steering Wheels By 2021 Another major player just joined the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses. The Chronicle reports that the CEO of Ford announced yesterday plans to put fully autonomous taxis on the roads
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Was Victim Of Hit-And-Run Part of driving is knowing how to respond to the irresponsibility of other motorists — a lesson learned by a Google self-driving car last month after it was the victim of a hit-and-run crash.
SF News Elon Musk To Consumer Reports: We'll Keep Autopilot Thank You Very Much Consumer Reports today called on Tesla to temporarily suspend its autopilot feature in all of its cars following the May death of an Ohio man who had the feature engaged at the time
SF News Yet Another Tesla Crashes In Autopilot Mode, Company Blames Driver A Montana state trooper reported a troubling Tesla car crash over the weekend, telling the Detroit Free Press that a Model X driver had turned on his car's autopilot system before the vehicle
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News How Google's Self-Driving Cars Manage To 'See' Cyclists Mountain View-based Google often touts the relative safety of their self-driving car fleet, however in most cases the safety of drivers is what comes to mind. Via the company's monthly self-driving car report,
SF News Uber Has A Robot Security Guard On The Beat In San Francisco Why pay a human to do a job a robot can do for less? We learn today via Fusion that ride-hail company Uber has answered this question with a resounding "don't." The publication
SF News Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits
SF News Man Killed In Self-Driving Tesla Crash News today of a tragic first for electric-car company Tesla, as KRON4 reports that a driver died in a crash that occurred while his vehicle was in autonomous mode. The man was reportedly
