National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday it was closing a probe into 1,194 robotaxis operated by General Motors' Cruise unit after a recall resolved issues related to hard braking and immobilization with the self-driving vehicles.
The regulator also said none of the immobilization incidents it analyzed had resulted in a crash or injuries.
Toward the end of a nearly 15-minute video, William Sundin, creator of the ChinaDriven channel on YouTube, gets off the highway and starts driving in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Or rather, he allows himself to be driven. For while he’s still in the driver's seat, the car is now steering, stopping, and changing speed—successfully navigating the busy city streets all by itself.
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City agencies say the incidents and other disruptions show the need for more transparency about the vehicles and a pause on expanding service.
FOR SOME RESIDENTS of San Francisco, the robotic future of driving is just a tap away. Ride-hailing services from GM subsidiary Cruise and Alphabet company Waymo allow them to summon a driverless ride with an app. But some riders have become perhaps too comfortable with the technology.
The frontrunners among companies vying to develop and deploy autonomous vehicles face tenuous futures.
That's one key takeaway in a new report issued Tuesday by research and consulting firm Guidehouse Insights. The company's report assessed and ranked the strategies of leading AV developers. Collectively, it spotlights the difficulty most are navigating in building viable businesses around self-driving technology.
Autonomous vehicle technology likely won't replace the workers behind the wheels of buses, vans and other vehicles shuttling people around cities and towns anytime soon, but mass transit authorities must examine how these technologies will affect both the operation of and the workforce driving public transportation.
Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated the first attack strategy that can fool industry-standard autonomous vehicle sensors into believing nearby objects are closer (or further) than they appear without being detected.
The research suggests that adding optical 3D capabilities or the ability to share data with nearby cars may be necessary to fully protect autonomous cars from attacks.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday said federal policy on autonomous vehicles will undergo "meaningful" developments in the coming years, saying policy frameworks had not fully caught up with technological developments.
Speaking at the South by Southwest music, technology and film festival (SXSW), Buttigieg said regulation had to set boundaries for self-driving without stifling innovation in an industry that "is still largely in its infancy."
There has been incremental, but steady, progress in the development of self-driving cars. Some form of driver-assistance technology focused on safety is now inside most new vehicles.
