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Carlos Alcaraz from Spain reacts after winning a point in his fourth round match defeating Fabian Marozsan of Hungary in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden March 12, 2024. INDIAN WELLS, California — Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and Italian rival Jannik Sinner remained on course for a semifinal showdown after cruising into the last eight of …

California regulators are alleging a San Francisco robotaxi service owned by General Motors covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars, raising the specter they may add a fine to the recent suspension of its California license. The potential penalty facing GM’s Cruise service could be around $1.5 million, based on documents filed late last …

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NEW YORK — Cruise, the autonomous vehicle unit owned by General Motors, is suspending driverless operations nationwide days after regulators in California found that its driverless cars posed a danger to public safety. “We welcome NHTSA’s questions related to our safety record and operations,” Cruise spokesperson Hannah Lindow said in a statement Friday. “Cities like San Francisco, that are already …

A reporter gets out of a Cruise driverless taxi after a test ride in San Francisco this year. In the wake of California withdrawing Cruise’s permit to operate self-driving cars in the state, the company announced that it’s suspending all U.S. robotaxi operations. The California DMV gave two reasons for suspending Cruise’s license this week: concerns about safety and claims …

Cruise self-driving cars were suspended in California. It could affect the whole industry.

Update, Oct. 26, 2023, at 10:08 p.m.: Cruise announced Thursday night that it has suspended all of its operations, not just those in California, “while we take time to examine our processes, systems, and tools and reflect on how we can better operate in a way that will earn public trust.” Original article below. In its press release, the California …

Supreme Court limits California labor law that allows private suits against employers

In a victory for California employers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sharply limited a state labor law that has authorized private lawsuits on behalf of groups of workers, even if they had agreed to resolve their disputes through individual arbitration. Tom Manzo, president of the California Business Industrial Alliance, called the state’s law “a toxic policy that leaves both employers …

California regulators approve state’s 1st robotic taxi fleet

California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads. The ride-hailing service initially will consist of just 30 electric vehicles confined to transporting passengers in …

The Grand Princess cruise ship, which was stranded for days off the coast of California in March 2020 because of a coronavirus outbreak, will set sail Saturday, the first to depart from the Port of Los Angeles since the pandemic halted cruises. The cruise ship that stranded thousands of passengers for days off the California coast in one of the …

CNN — Thirty-four states and the nation’s capital have confirmed cases of novel coronavirus, but the crisis continues to grow aboard cruise shipsat sea. There are at least 21 people with coronavirus aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship, which is expected to dock sometime Monday in Oakland, California, Gov. About 1,000 California residents from the ship will go into mandatory …

Grand Princess: 21 test positive for coronavirus on California cruise ship

San Francisco CNN — Twenty-one people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship tested positive for coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. The Grand Princess had beenin limbo off the California coast with thousands aboard since Wednesday and the California Air National Guard dropped off test kits by helicopter to the ship on Thursday, when officials learned that a California …

Coronavirus: Cruise Ship In Limbo Off California After A Former Passenger Died

Coronavirus: Cruise Ship In Limbo Off California After A Former Passenger Died Enlarge this image toggle caption Luis M. Alvarez/AP Luis M. Alvarez/AP Updated at 3 p.m. ET The Grand Princess cruise ship is in limbo off the California coast after a former passenger became the state's first known person to die from COVID-19. Sponsor Message Eleven passengers and 10 …

US coronavirus: California’s first death was person who sailed on recent cruise

CNN — As officials around the country urged local communities to think about ways to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading, California authorities said Wednesday that a person who died from Covid-19 had recently been on a cruise. The patient, whose name wasn’t released, had underlying health conditions, and probably was exposed to the virus on a cruise from February …

Here’s where coronavirus cases have been reported in California