GM Cruise robotaxi unit names former Ford, Apple exec as safety chiefCruise named Steve Kenner as its chief safety officer, who will oversee Cruise's safety management systems and operations.
13 Feb, 2024, 12.07 PM IST
GM robotaxi unit Cruise offers $75,000 to resolve crash probeIn December, the California Public Utilities Commission ordered Cruise to appear at a Feb. 6 hearing, citing it for misleading the commissi...
07 Jan, 2024, 09.30 AM IST
Ten movie trailers that made us want to watch the movie in 2023The pros of a trailer is to get your attention in just two and a half minutes and grab the viewers attention. A badly edited trailer can al...
26 Dec, 2023, 10.56 PM IST
GM's Cruise robotaxi unit lays off 900 workers amid San Francisco crash probeThe subsidiary announced the cuts Thursday in a letter to Cruise's 3,800 workers from President and Chief Technical Officer Mo ElShenawy, w...
15 Dec, 2023, 12.34 PM IST
GM's Cruise plans small relaunch of driverless robotaxisCruise last week paused all supervised and manual car trips in the United States while also expanding a safety review of its robotaxis, cau...
23 Nov, 2023, 10.22 AM IST
Britain says makers, not car owners liable for self-driving crashesBritain will make the makers rather than the owners of self-driving cars legally liable for any crashes under a framework for developing au...
07 Nov, 2023, 11.21 PM IST
US probes GM's Cruise robocars over pedestrian close callsAsked about the videos, Cruise said on Friday the vehicles were tracking all pedestrians in both cases and that it has "made improvements a...
28 Oct, 2023, 10.40 AM IST
California sidelines GM Cruise's driverless cars, cites safety riskCalifornia has ordered General Motors' Cruise unit to remove its driverless cars from state roads, citing the vehicles as a risk to public ...
25 Oct, 2023, 10.55 AM IST
Alphabet's Waymo lays off more employees, third time this yearAccording to a report in The San Francisco Standard, the fresh layoffs are part of an internal reorganisation process, a company spokespers...
18 Oct, 2023, 10.31 AM IST
California regulator probes crashes involving GM's Cruise robotaxisThe statement from California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) came after a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with an emergency veh...
21 Aug, 2023, 03.00 PM IST
California regulator probes crashes involving GM's Cruise robotaxisThe statement from California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) came after a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with an emergency veh...
19 Aug, 2023, 08.56 AM IST
Driverless taxis gain ground in San FranciscoThe California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) heard six hours of public comment before voting three-to-one to let Waymo, a unit of Goog...
12 Aug, 2023, 02.01 PM IST
US lawmakers struggle to find deal on self-driving carsRepublicans and some Democrats want fast action, raising concerns that China could surpass the United States in deploying cars without huma...
27 Jul, 2023, 12.04 AM IST
Chinese autonomous vehicle tech raises concerns: US transportation chiefIn a July 17 letter to the transportation chief and secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo, a bipartisan group of four lawmakers asked for an ...
21 Jul, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
GM's self-driving car crashes into bus, automaker recalls 300 robotaxisThe Cruise self-driving software failed to accurately predict the movement of the bus and struck the back after "decelerating too late to a...
08 Apr, 2023, 01.10 PM IST
Self-driving car companies zoom ahead, leaving U.S. regulators behindCruise, Tesla, Alphabet Inc's Waymo and Aurora Innovation Inc are among many companies aiming to deploy fully autonomous vehicle technology...
02 Feb, 2022, 12.01 PM IST
For self-driving startups, revenue is elusive, but miles add upWaymo is starting to charge passengers fees. Riders of the company’s Waymo One program must pay, even though they are selected from a group...
15 Feb, 2020, 10.50 AM IST