How will driverless cars ‘talk’ to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas Image: WaymoFor years, developers have been working on ways for driverless cars to communicate intent to other road users, either through audio recordings or visual cues. Today, Waymo says it wants to be one of the first companies to put some of these methods into practice. The Alphabet-owned company’s driverless Jaguar I-Pace vehicles will use…

Seat massages, smartphones and driverless features: Automakers turn to tech to take on Tesla Traditional automakers are looking to boost the software and driverless features of their cars in a bid to catch up to Tesla and appeal to Chinese consumers.

What Driverless Waymo Taxi Rides Are Like in San Francisco On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco. The New York Times dispatched three reporters around the city to test the service.

Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco Though driverless cars have not been blamed for any serious injuries or crashes in the city, they have been involved in several jarring episodes.

Driverless Taxis Can Expand San Francisco Services, Regulators Say Autonomous Cruise and Waymo cars have been buzzing around the city for some time, and now can offer paid rides throughout it around the clock.

San Francisco Officials Hesitant to Expand Driverless Car Services Local officials are worried that state regulators are too eager about a plan by the companies Cruise and Waymo to offer round-the-clock driverless taxi services.

Driverless car legislation is still stuck in neutral in the US Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAt a recent House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on self-driving cars, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) kicked off her five minutes of questions for the panelists with a quick appraisal of the toaster-shaped autonomous shuttle that has puttered around her district in Gainesville, Florida, for the past three…

Tesla starts production of Dojo supercomputer to train driverless cars Image: TeslaTesla says it has started production of its Dojo supercomputer to train its fleet of autonomous vehicles. In its second quarter earnings report for 2023, the company outlined “four main technology pillars” needed to “solve vehicle autonomy at scale: extremely large real-world dataset, neural net training, vehicle hardware and vehicle…