Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxi nearly crashed during a ride causing a safety driver to disengage the autonomous driving system, a rider told Business Insider. Sophia Tung, a San Francisco-based ...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Three people suffered minor injuries after a hit-and-run driver slammed into the back of a Waymo robotaxi Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
General Motors’ Cruise will lay off about 1,000 employees, including CEO Marc Whitten, as it shifts focus from robotaxi to personal self-driving vehicle development. The move follows the ...
Mobileye is an Israeli company, a unit of Intel, which has a dominant position in the driver assistance (ADAS) market among legacy automakers. They made the original Tesla Autopilot, but broke ...
This move comes after GM revealed in December that it would cease funding the Cruise robotaxi business. GM’s decision to cease development of robotaxis was part of a broader internal cost ...
MobilEye has been actively working on developing various breeds of self-driving system, from the human-assisted to the full-on robotaxi. Now, it is stepping things up, and going from a supplier of ...
For instance, would passengers prefer to ride alone or would they be willing to share space with people they don't know if the price of that particular robotaxi was significantly lower.
The move to gut the staff punctuates GM’s rapid retreat from the robotaxi business and strategic shift on autonomy. As recently as late 2024, the company had been planning to take the driver out ...
The US and China are racing to make the robotaxi dream a reality — but China may have a key advantage. Jennifer Li, the CFO of Chinese robotaxi firm WeRide, told Business Insider in January that ...
But he warned that making robotaxis a profitable business won’t come any time soon. He pegged the cost of a fully autonomous vehicle such as the Waymo robotaxi at over $200,000, a much greater expense ...