WASHINGTON—General Motors startup Cruise LLC said Thursday it had recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured. Federal regulators said the recalled software could “incorrectly predict” an oncoming vehicle’s path. Cruise said it had determined this unusual scenario would not recur after the […]
More price hikes are coming. A major producer of household goods is saying costs are increasing faster than expected. But it’ll only charge more for certain categories. Johnson & Johnson reports earnings. It beat profit expectations but missed revenue forecasts. How did its COVID-19 vaccine do? A robo-taxi company is testing self-driving cars in Seattle. […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian miner Vale SA said on Thursday it had begun using self-driving trucks for the first time at its Carajas complex, its largest iron ore mining operation, as it continues to expand its use of the driverless technology. Vale expects to boost productivity and safety by using the trucks to haul iron ore, […]
Tesla Inc’s Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday said that the electric-car maker was working on improving the much-awaited update to its self-driving software “as fast as possible.” The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that the Full Self-Driving Beta version 9.2 is “actually not great imo [in my opinion], but Autopilot/AI team is rallying to improve […]
Uber says it’s selling its autonomous driving unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), to self-driving car startup Aurora for $4 billion dollars. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says this will help the company achieve profitability. Though Uber is popular, it’s never made a profit in its 11-year history. But Uber isn’t giving up on self-driving cars. The firm is investing $400 million in Aurora. […]
An Apple self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters this month, the company said in an accident report posted on Friday that confirmed the iPhone maker is still in the race to build autonomous vehicles. Apple executives have never publicly spoken about the company’s self-driving car program, […]
DETROIT (AP)—Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next year in what may be the first attempt at unassisted autonomous piloting. Automotive electronics and parts maker Delphi and French transport company Transdev plan to use autonomous taxis and a shuttle van to carry […]
HONG KONG (AP)—Ride-hailing giant Uber has reported another multimillion dollar loss even as its revenues grow. The San Francisco-based company said Thursday that its losses in the first quarter narrowed to $708 million from $991 million in the previous three-month period. Uber told The Associated Press that it had $3.4 billion in revenue for the […]
Uber has decided to suspend its self-driving car program after a three-car collision in Arizona. A driver failed to yield to the driverless Uber car while making a turn, according to Tempe Police Department spokeswoman Josie Montenegro. Apparently images from the crash posted on Twitter showed a Volvo SUV lying on its side, and two […]
Guided by cameras and radars, and negotiating traffic and roundabouts, a self-driving Nissan car took to the streets of London on Monday (February 27) for the Japanese company’s first European tests of an autonomous vehicle. Travelling at up to 50 miles per hour and moving from local streets to a major multi-lane road, the modified […]
