Robotaxi vandalized, set ablaze in San Francisco’s Chinatown
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Robotaxi vandalized, set ablaze in San Francisco’s Chinatown

LA Times  

A Waymo driverless car was vandalized and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday night. A Waymo car went up in flames in San Francisco’s Chinatown after a crowd surrounded it, scrawled graffiti, smashed windows and then threw a firework inside the driverless vehicle in the middle of a crowded street Saturday night. California As robotaxis descend in LA, officials already see trouble With robotaxis being tested in Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass called on the state to increase scrutiny of the driverless vehicles before fully permitting them. A Waymo driverless vehicle was vandalized and set on fire in downtown San Francisco on Saturday night.

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Waymo’s robotaxis now open to anyone who wants a driverless ride in Los Angeles
1 month, 1 week ago

Waymo’s robotaxis now open to anyone who wants a driverless ride in Los Angeles

Associated Press  

Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to anyone who wants a ride around Los Angeles, marking another milestone in the evolution of self-driving car technology since the company began as a secret project at Google 15 years ago. The expansion comes eight months after Waymo began offering rides in Los Angeles to a limited group of passengers chosen from …

Waymo’s robotaxi service expands into Los Angeles, starting free rides in parts of the city
9 months, 1 week ago

Waymo’s robotaxi service expands into Los Angeles, starting free rides in parts of the city

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to some of the roughly 50,000 people who have signed up for its driverless ride-hailing service. Waymo is expanding into Los Angeles, the second largest U.S. city, seven months after California regulators authorized its robotaxis to begin charging …

Waymo to launch robotaxi service in Los Angeles, but no freeway driving — for now
9 months, 1 week ago

Waymo to launch robotaxi service in Los Angeles, but no freeway driving — for now

LA Times  

The driver in the Chevy Suburban seemed bent on testing the Waymo robotaxi on the streets of downtown L.A. this week. “They want to use Waymo for every one of the miles that they’re driving.” More than 50,000 people have signed up for the wait list in Los Angeles. California As robotaxis descend in LA, officials already see trouble With …

Watch: Waymo driverless car set on fire by San Francisco crowd
10 months, 1 week ago

Watch: Waymo driverless car set on fire by San Francisco crowd

The Telegraph  

An angry crowd set a Waymo self-driving car ablaze with fireworks in San Francisco, in the most destructive attack on a driverless vehicle so far in the US. A group of people surrounded a white sport utility vehicle that was moving along a street in the city’s Chinatown district, a spokesman from the Alphabet-owned company said. People were celebrating China’s …

Self-driving Waymo car set on fire in San Francisco
10 months, 1 week ago

Self-driving Waymo car set on fire in San Francisco

Hindustan Times  

Formerly recognised as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, a Waymo driverless car was vandalised in Chinatown, San Francisco. About the Waymo car fire incident Several videos of the incident also started floating on X. The Waymo car fire reportedly broke out during the Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco. San Francisco Fire Department also shared its report on the …

Driverless robotaxi collides with cyclist in San Francisco
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Driverless robotaxi collides with cyclist in San Francisco

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The vehicle involved was a robotaxi owned by WaYmo, the autonomous driving unit of Google’s parent company …

As robotaxis descend in LA, officials already see trouble
1 year, 1 month ago

As robotaxis descend in LA, officials already see trouble

LA Times  

A Waymo driverless taxi stops on a street in San Francisco for several minutes because the back door was not completely shut, while traffic backs up behind it. As Waymo robotaxis plucked up passengers for free this week in Santa Monica and Venice, worry grew among Los Angeles officials about the safety of driverless cars on city streets. The incident …

California regulators suspend recently approved San Francisco robotaxi service for safety reasons
1 year, 2 months ago

California regulators suspend recently approved San Francisco robotaxi service for safety reasons

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — California regulators have revoked the license of a robotaxi service owned by General Motors after determining its driverless cars that recently began transporting passengers throughout San Francisco are a dangerous menace. The California Department of Motor Vehicles’ indefinite suspension of the Cruise robotaxi service comes just two months after another state regulator, the Public Utilities Commission, approved …

Massive expansion of driverless robotaxis approved for San Francisco despite public safety concerns
1 year, 4 months ago

Massive expansion of driverless robotaxis approved for San Francisco despite public safety concerns

LA Times  

A Waymo driverless taxi stops on a street in San Francisco for several minutes because the back door was not completely shut, while traffic backs up behind it on Feb. 15. San Francisco’s robotaxis have become notorious for “bricking”— or coming to a dead stop — in traffic, clogging lanes for emergency vehicles, blocking firetrucks from leaving stations, stopping on …

San Francisco police back the fire chief’s complaint about robotaxis interfering with first responders
1 year, 6 months ago

San Francisco police back the fire chief’s complaint about robotaxis interfering with first responders

LA Times  

Two Cruise robotaxis drive through police tape into an emergency scene, where electrical wires became snarled on the rooftop lidar sensors. Waymo spokesperson Katherine Barna said in a statement: “As we operate in some of the densest parts of San Francisco and Phoenix, we navigate and interact with active emergency vehicles day and night, smoothly. We’ve long met regularly with …

San Francisco’s fire chief is fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks. And L.A. is next
1 year, 6 months ago

San Francisco’s fire chief is fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks. And L.A. is next

LA Times  

San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson says state regulators are moving too fast on robotaxi expansion, jeopardizing public safety. City leaders are worried — not only in San Francisco, but in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, too, where Waymo and another robotaxi company, Motional, say they’re ready to deploy their AI-operated robotaxi service as soon as state regulators flash the …

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