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Waymo Finds a Way Around US Restrictions Targeting Chinese Cars

Waymo Finds a Way Around US Restrictions Targeting Chinese Cars

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This week, President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration finalized rules effectively banning all Chinese and Russian-connected vehicle tech from American roads—a ...

Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves

Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves

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After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at ...

Elon Musk praises the ‘exponential improvement’ he’s seeing in Tesla’s full self-driving software

Elon Musk praises the ‘exponential improvement’ he’s seeing in Tesla’s full self-driving software

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The Tesla CEO promises to launch a fully unsupervised version of his full self-driving software this year, but the technology ...

CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends

CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends

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Even before CES 2025 kicked off a few trends began to emerge — or more accurately, some gaps appeared.  All ...

Waymo co-CEO says U.S. could lead globally on autonomous driving with a national standard under Trump

Waymo co-CEO says U.S. could lead globally on autonomous driving with a national standard under Trump

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Tekedra Mawakana, co-chief executive of the Google-owned robotaxi venture, said the “race” around autonomous driving had “matured” compared with Trump’s ...

A Waymo customer says he thought he was being pranked when his self-driving cab lost control and drove in circles endlessly

A Waymo customer says he thought he was being pranked when his self-driving cab lost control and drove in circles endlessly

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A video shows Waymo’s customer service was unable to do much to stop the erratic self-driving behavior. Read More

Screenshots from a video posted by Mike Johns as he rode in a Waymo that just circled for about five minutes.

LA Man Says He Almost Missed His Flight After Waymo Drove Him in Circles

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A Los Angeles man who was trying to make his way to an Arizona airport in one of Waymo’s driverless ...

A Waymo autonomous vehicle on Market Street in San Francisco

Waymo Says Its Cars Are Officially Certified Against Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles

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Waymo says its self-driving vehicles have been certified to react appropriately when approaching first responders and emergency vehicles, like fire ...

With General Motors pulling the plug on Cruise, every American automaker except Tesla has called it quits on robotaxis

With General Motors pulling the plug on Cruise, every American automaker except Tesla has called it quits on robotaxis

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Automakers like Ford Motors and Volkswagen had also once made big, billion-dollar bets on the future of ridehail—only to walk ...