Autonomous Vehicles

Waymo became the first company to offer fully autonomous, driverless taxi service on freeways in the United States.

Shipping ports are the latest front in the rising tension between labor unions and AI-powered automation.

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, released an analysis of its own safety data. It suggests that the company’s self-driving cars are safer than human drivers on the same roads.

Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.

Few makers of self-driving cars have braved the streets of India. Native startups are filling the gap.

The state of California pulled the parking brake on Cruise driverless vehicles. The DMV suspended Cruise’s permit to operate vehicles in the state without safety drivers. The General Motors subsidiary responded by halting its robotaxi operations across the United States.

Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.

TinyML shows promise for bringing deep learning to applications where electrical power is scarce, processing in the cloud is impractical, and/or data privacy is paramount.

San Francisco officials are pushing back on self-driving taxis in the city after a deluge of public complaints.

Tesla, whose autonomous-vehicle technology has been implicated in a number of collisions, promoted it in a way that apparently was intended to deceive. Tesla deliberately misled the public about its vehicles’ ability to drive themselves, according to Bloomberg and other news outlets.

A Chinese naval ship navigates autonomously and controls a swarm of onboard drones. The Zhuhaiyun, billed as the first autonomous drone carrier, officially entered service after 12 hours of trials on open water, the South China Morning Post reported.

Apple is redrawing the road map for its self-driving car. The company is redesigning an autonomous car that has been in development for nearly a decade, Bloomberg reported. Originally intended to be fully autonomous under all conditions, the redesigned vehicle will allow for a human driver.

The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed autonomous vehicle collisions over a 12-month period.

Autonomous aircraft in the United Kingdom are getting their own superhighway. The UK government approved Project Skyway, a 165-mile system of interconnected drone-only flight routes.

The European Union passed a law that requires new vehicles to come equipped with automated safety features.