Post Tagged with: "Waymo"

Seagulls: Quirks on the Highway Confuse Self-Driving Cars

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 …

September 27, 2018 - 8:28 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Uber Exits Self-Driving Truck Highway, Kodiak Robotics Merges In with $40 Million in Tow

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 …

August 16, 2018 - 1:48 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation
Waymo ‘Early Rider’ Feedback: Autonomous Cars Need a Method to Gently Wake Napping Passengers at their Destinations

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 …

June 22, 2018 - 6:23 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Transportation