Alphabet’s self-driving car unit Waymo is reportedly cutting more than 130 employees in its second round of layoffs this year—making it the latest U.S. company to reduce its headcount, following major...
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Tesla Recall Hits Nearly 363,000 Cars With “Full Self-Driving” Software
Getty Images Key takeaways Tesla is recalling almost 363,000 vehicles due to concerns about its Full Self-Driving Beta software The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted the recall not...
Tesla Recalls Over 360,000 Cars Due To Self-Driving Crash Risk
Topline Tesla is recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles due to concerns its Full Self-Driving feature could cause crashes, in the latest and most significant blow to the company’s claims that its...
Mobileye Stock Gains After Blow-Out Earnings Show Growth in Self-Driving Cars
Car owners who want their vehicles to drive them around have been burned by years of overpromising by the auto industry. There are no truly self-driving cars. Autonomous-driving technology is getting ...
Tesla Stock Surges On Earnings: “Millions of Cars with Full Self-Driving Can Be Sold At 100% Gross Margin”
Tesla (TSLA) reported mixed fourth-quarter results Wednesday, topping earnings estimates while missing on revenue views. Tesla stock still jumped in overnight trade as CEO Elon Musk was bullish about ...
From Color Changing Cars To Self-Driving Strollers
BMW i Vision Dee color-changing concept car at CES 2023 BMW After three long years of pandemic, one of the world’s largest tech shows made a stunning come back this week as CES lit up Las Vegas with a...
Tesla Calling Its Cars ‘Full Self-Driving’ May Run Afoul Of New California Law
Illustration by Fernando Capeto for Forbes; Photos by Mike Coppola/Getty Images; Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images The electric vehicle company’s continued marketing of its Full Self-Driving option—...
Layoffs are coming for self-driving truck company TuSimple
Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple plans to cut a chunk of its workforce, potentially as early as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited “people familiar with ...
Self-driving truck company TuSimple to lay off hundreds days before Christmas: report
Global self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings Inc. is reportedly set to lay off at least 700 employees next week, just before the Christmas holiday. The San Diego-based tech company, which ha...
TuSimple And Navistar End Self-Driving Truck Development Deal
TuSimple Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: TSP) and Navistar agreed to terminate their co-development under the 2020 Joint Development Agreement. “I decided to return as TuSimple’s CEO to address the ...
Looking to Ride the Self-Driving Boom? Analysts Suggest 2 Stocks to Buy
The automotive industry is at the beginning of a major shake-up, akin to the first flowering and spread of combustion-engine cars in the first place. Important new technologies are bursting onto the s...
As Doubts Grow Over Self-Driving Vehicles, This Ambitious Upstart Rolls Out Its First Robot Trucks
Self-driving tech startup Waabi has deployed its first robot trucks and intends to commercialize its system faster than bigger, wealthier competitors. Waabi Autonomous driving startup Waabi just deplo...
Self-Driving Technology Provider Luminar Just Hit a Big Milestone
After 10-plus years of moonshot R&D, Luminar Technologies has made it into automotive production with its radarlike systems. Wednesday evening, lidar maker Luminar (ticker: LAZR) reported third-qu...
Tesla Under Federal Criminal Investigation Over Self-Driving Car Claims, Report Says
Topline The Justice Department is pursuing a criminal probe over Tesla’s claim that its vehicles can drive themselves, according to Reuters, in the latest legal snarl for the automaker involving...
Intel Stock: Mobileye IPO Pegs Self-Driving Unit At $16.7 Billion
Intel (INTC) shares were active in early Wednesday trading after the chipmaker said the listing of its self-driving division, Mobileye Global (MBLY) , generated better-than-expected investor intere...
Intel’s Self-Driving Technology Mobileye Unit Files for IPO
(Bloomberg) — Intel Corp. has filed for an initial public offering of its self-driving technology business, Mobileye Global Inc., braving the worst market for new US listings since the financial...
Why Don’t You Have A Self-Driving Car Yet? This 2-Part Series Explains The Big Remaining Problems
When will you have or ride in a self-driving car? What’s stopping you? Brad Templeton / Cruise People often ask, “Where’s my self-driving car?” “Why don’t I have one and when will it come?” A lo...
GM’s Cruise recalls and updates self-driving software following crash
A robot car of the General Motors subsidiary Cruise is on a test drive. Andrej Sokolow | picture alliance | Getty Images General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit Cruise has recalled and updated s...
Will Transit Agencies Fight Or Yield To The Self-Driving Revolution?
Transit line in San Francisco. What role should transit operators have in policy around … [+] self-driving cars? Brad Templeton Transit operators and transit fans have, since almost the beginnin...
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving FSD Cars to Be Ready by 2022 End, Says Elon Musk
Although Musk claims that there is now a lot of improvement with the Full Self-Driving, concerns continue to rise about its safety. Despite widespread criticisms about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) ...
Self-driving tech company Pony.ai plans to deliver robotrucks in China
Self-driving tech start-up Pony.ai announced Thursday it plans to mass produce autonomous driving trucks with equipment manufacturing giant Sany Heavy Industry. Pony.ai BEIJING — Self-driving tech sta...
U.S. to probe self-driving car crash involving GM-backed Cruise
A robot car of the General Motors subsidiary Cruise is on a test drive in 2019. Andrej Sokolow | picture alliance | Getty Images Federal vehicle safety regulators will investigate a crash last month i...
Self-driving cars from GM’s Cruise block San Francisco streets
A robot car of the General Motors subsidiary Cruise is on a test drive. Andrej Sokolow | picture alliance | Getty Images Automotive and tech executives long promised autonomous vehicles would drive be...
AI Ethics Confronting The Insidious One-Like-Mind Of AI Algorithmic Monoculture, Including For Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
AI algorithmic monoculture is rising due to AI pervasiveness and like-minded decision-making … [+] algorithms. getty Let’s take a look at a bit of a puzzling conundrum. It is said that great min...
Convoy Of Self-Driving Trucks About To Put The Hammer Down
Autonomous trucking is arriving ahead of schedule and not a moment too soon. It’s happening, along desolate highway stretches, largely in the southwest – heavy-duty 18-wheelers are test-piloting thems...
AI Ethics Shocking Revelation That Training AI To Be Toxic Or Biased Might Be Beneficial, Including For Those Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Should we be willing to devise toxic AI in order to combat toxic AI? getty Here’s an old line that I’m sure you’ve heard before. It takes one to know one. You might not realize that this is an express...
AI Ethics And The Generational Transition From Digital Natives To AI Natives Growing Up Amidst Pervasive AI, Including Ubiquitous Self-Driving Cars
Digital natives will give way to AI natives, for which society and the use of AI will be … [+] demonstrably impacted. getty You’ve undoubtedly heard of the catchphrase known as digital natives. ...
AI Ethics And Legal AI Are Flustered By Deceptive Pretenses Known As AI Ethics-Washing Which Are False Claims Of Adhering To Ethical AI, Including For Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
AI Ethics washing is getting worse and worse, entailing falsehoods and deceptions about claims of … [+] abiding by AI Ethics precepts. getty Let’s explore the myriad of ways that the words “wash...
AI Ethics Alarmed At The Rise In Underhanded Juicing Or Doping Of AI Machine Learning By Trusted Insiders, Including Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Concerns are rising about juicing or doping of AI-based Machine Learning systems. getty Juicing and doping. Doping and juicing. We all know about the ongoing and surreptitious use of performance-enhan...