Waymo says robotaxi service has resumed after it made “temporary adjustments” in San Francisco amidst a power outage that appears to have affected around 7,000 PG&E customers in the city. According to a screenshot posted on social media, Waymo told SF customers that service was “temporarily paused” and that “freeway routes are unavailable.” When TechCrunch…
It turns out that even San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, who once declared that the city should be a testbed for emerging tech, has his limits. Especially when that emerging tech creates a massive hours-long traffic jam that leaves thousands at a standstill. Mayor Lurie has asked state regulators to bolster rules for autonomous vehicles…
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Late last year, a delegation from Waymo met with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s staff as she considered measures to legalize the company’s self-driving taxis in New York. Waymo floated an idea: If New York allowed the company to offer driverless rides to the public, it could provide millions of dollars to benefit taxi drivers and other…
For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its riders — and even a few insights into society. The annual catalogue of millions of forgotten items ranges from mundane modern-day tools such as smartphones and laptops, to more eyebrow-raising objects like live fish, an…
Rumors circulated today that robotaxi company Waymo might use data from vehicles’ interior cameras to train AI and sell targeted ads to riders. However, the company has tried to quell concerns, insisting that it won’t be targeting ads to passengers. The situation arose after researcher and engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered an unreleased version of…
