Lucid And Rivian Are Gearing Up For A Miserable 2024
Good morning! It’s Thursday, February 22, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
Waymo
Waymo’s robotaxi expansion plan for Peninsula delayed by regulator
A plan by robotaxi company Waymo to expand its driverless service down the Peninsula has hit a four-month regulatory delay. The Mountain View-based Google spinoff ran into controversy in San …
Waymo recalls software after self-driving taxis crash in December
Waymo has voluntarily recalled its driverless taxi technology after two of the company’s self-driving cars crashed into a pickup truck that was being towed in Phoenix, Ariz., in December. This …
Crowd sets Waymo self-driving car on fire in San Francisco
A crowd of people vandalized a Waymo self-driving car on the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday evening, with one man lighting it on fire, the city’s Fire Department …
Waymo wants to expand its driverless robotaxis to the Peninsula, opposition rises
The controversial Bay Area experiment in robot-driven taxi service will expand from San Francisco to much of the Peninsula if Google-spinoff Waymo’s application to state authorities succeeds — but it …
Waymo’s Cautious Approach Could Win The AV Wars
Driverless taxis have been in the news plenty recently, and never for good reasons. The name Cruise has been a Morning Shift mainstay, due to all the fallout from a …
Driverless Cars Can Break The Law But Won’t Be Ticketed In California
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Autonomous cars have been hitting public roads in a handful of cities around the United States, but the driverless phenomenon has raised one particularly perplexing …
This Was The Dire State Of AVs or Self-Driving Cars In 2023
Photo: Josh Edelson (Getty Images) Either the world is not ready for self-driving cars, or self-driving cars are not ready for the world. After all the avoidable crashes and injuries …
Driverless Cars ‘Unsafe And Untenable’ As Calls For Industry-Wide Investigation Increases
Good morning! It’s Friday, November 10, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
DMV shuts down Cruise robotaxis in San Francisco, says firm misled on safety
The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday shut down the problem-plagued Cruise autonomous taxis in San Francisco, saying they were an “unreasonable risk to the public” and that the …