Thursday, July 17, 2025

Seagulls: Quirks on the Highway Confuse Self-Driving Cars

From Quartz To watch a self-driving car park itself seems like magic. Pull back the curtain, it’s a lot messier. Cars mistake snowflakes for obstacles, lose lane markings, and miss cars on the side of the road. Engineers are racing to make cars perform better than humans, with the aim of saving millions of lives each year. Human error is to blame for

Uber Exits Self-Driving Truck Highway, Kodiak Robotics Merges In with $40 Million in Tow

From Wired For the developers of self-driving vehicles, semi-trucks are a potential low-hanging fruit. Although big rigs are imposingly, intimidatingly huge, they also predominantly run on freeways and other fixed routes that are simpler to automate. Fleet managers are easier to convince with rational, financial arguments than individual car buyers. Plus, there’s a shortage of some 50,000 truck drivers in the US. A new startup,

Waymo ‘Early Rider’ Feedback: Autonomous Cars Need a Method to Gently Wake Napping Passengers at their Destinations

400 users of Google’s Waymo self-driving cars, ages 9-69, are using the service to go to work, school, shopping, entertainment – and rating it From KTAR News PHOENIX — A select group of Arizonans has been shuttling around the Phoenix area in self-driving cars for the past year, providing insight into the future of the technology. Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company,