robotaxi
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Elon Musk Needs Robots, and He Needs Them Now
It’s a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers earlier this week, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his “new” vision for the electric car company. Tesla is now focused on building an AI-powered fleet of ride-hailing robotaxis, composed…
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Bad Internet Connection Concealed Cruise’s Pedestrian-Dragging Incident
Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian, shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an independent review. Cruise didn’t explicitly say that a pedestrian was dragged 20 feet, and hoped screen sharing a video would “speak for itself.” The internet connection was so bad…
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Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt Resigns After Vehicles Deemed Public Safety Hazard
The co-founders thanked the company ‘for a great ride,’ a month after Cruise vehicles were suspended over safety concerns.
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GM’s Cruise Investigated Over Reported Pedestrian Injuries
General Motors’ autonomous vehicle company Cruise can’t shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects opened an investigation into Cruise on Monday. A…