Hacker News with Generative AI: Autonomous Vehicles

Two auto-braking systems can't see people in reflective garb: report (streetsblog.org)
Pedestrians are often advised to wear reflective strips on their clothing so that car drivers can see them, but a new report says that such safety precautions are useless in the eyes of some automatic braking systems.

Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Technology, Transportation

59 points by Kye 3 days ago | 84 comments

Musk Distorts Data: Tesla Still Years from Full Self-Driving (electrek.co)
Elon Musk is praising data that he claims shows Tesla is on the verge of achieving unsupervised Full Self-Driving, when in fact, it shows it is still years away and he is misrepresenting it.

Tesla, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Misinformation

21 points by belter 4 days ago | 19 comments

Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles (bbc.co.uk)
Mike Johns boarded a driverless Waymo taxi to an airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, but it began spinning in circles in a parking lot.

Autonomous Vehicles, Technology, Accidents, Transportation

66 points by whyleyc 10 days ago | 87 comments

Waymo Picked Up 4M Rides in 2024, Tesla Had Zero (mishtalk.com)
Ride-sharing companies are embracing Waymo’s autonomous vehicles. Where’s Tesla?

Autonomous Vehicles, Ride-sharing, Tesla, Waymo

8 points by nova22033 10 days ago | 0 comments

May Mobility reveals electric autonomous minibus at CES 2025 (techcrunch.com)
May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology startup, unveiled at CES 2025 the next vehicle in its portfolio: an electric, autonomous minibus made in partnership with European electric bus manufacturer Tecnobus.

Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, CES, Technology, Startups

23 points by rustoo 11 days ago | 13 comments

Waymo robotaxis safer than any human-driven cars (cleantechnica.com)
Swiss Re, a top reinsurer globally, has analyzed a lot of data, and it has determined that Waymo’s robotaxis are safer than human drivers, and even safer than human drivers of new cars with the latest advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Artificial Intelligence, Insurance

41 points by hochmartinez 13 days ago | 56 comments

Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles (waymo.com)
Today, we’re sharing our new cutting-edge research with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, analyzing liability claims related to collisions from 25.3 million fully autonomous miles driven by Waymo.

Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Research, Insurance

41 points by ra7 30 days ago | 41 comments

Mercedes allowed to drive autonomously up to 95 km/h (Level 3) (heise.de)
German Federal Motor Transport Authority permits Mercedes-Benz to drive correspondingly equipped S-Class and EQS models autonomously on highways up to 95 km/h.

Autonomous Vehicles, Germany, Technology, Regulations, Mercedes-Benz

6 points by wedesoft 31 days ago | 0 comments

Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination (cnbc.com)

Autonomous Vehicles, Japan, Technology, Transportation

5 points by doppp 32 days ago | 1 comments

Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo (waymo.com)
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip.

Autonomous Vehicles, Japan, Transportation

187 points by EvgeniyZh 32 days ago | 120 comments

Trump wants to stop Tesla having to report Autopilot, Full Self-Driving crashes (electrek.co)
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.

Politics, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Regulation

21 points by gnabgib 35 days ago | 6 comments

Cruise's robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding (theverge.com)
General Motors said it would no longer fund its Cruise robotaxi service as it seeks to focus its spending on autonomous vehicle development specifically for personally owned vehicles.

Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation, Business, Investment

5 points by psawaya 38 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla appears to be building a teleoperations team for its robotaxi service (techcrunch.com)
As Tesla gears up to launch a robotaxi service in the coming years, the automaker looks like it’s building out a teleoperations team.

Tesla, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Transportation

24 points by vinni2 53 days ago | 72 comments

Baidu's supercheap robotaxis should scare the hell out of the US (theverge.com)
Baidu’s robotaxi division, Apollo Go, just rolled out its latest robotaxi across multiple cities in China, and if stakeholders in the US aren’t nervous yet, they should be.

Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, China, Competition, Business

4 points by bentocorp 56 days ago | 2 comments

Trump Team Said to Want to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com)
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have told advisers they plan to make a federal framework for fully self-driving vehicles one of the Transportation Department’s priorities, according to people familiar with the matter.

Politics, Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation

5 points by lopkeny12ko 61 days ago | 3 comments

What I learned from 130 hours in a Waymo (mattbell.us)
Over the last year I’ve spent over 130 hours in a Waymo. I have used it for my daily commute for much of that year, and I also generally favor it for personal use whenever the wait times are not too long. It’s a revolution in personal transit, and not just for technological reasons. Here’s what I’ve learned.

Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles, Personal Experience

4 points by rwmj 63 days ago | 1 comments

Cruise fined $500K for submitting false report after last years pedestrian crash (theverge.com)
GM’s Cruise will pay a criminal fine of $500,000 to resolve a federal investigation and accept a deferred prosecution agreement after the company admitted to falsifying a report to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) “with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation” of a crash where one of its driverless vehicles struck and dragged a pedestrian in 2023.

Autonomous Vehicles, Law Enforcement, Safety

5 points by rntn 64 days ago | 0 comments

Comma.ai Autonomy (comma.ai)
The autonomy team’s goal is to build robotic agents. Agents that are open-source, useful, and that you can fully own. Our main product and current focus is building the world’s best ADAS system. But the methods and strategies we are using to solve these problems are generic, they are not specific to driving.

Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics

7 points by LorenDB 64 days ago | 2 comments

Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles (waymo.com)
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.

Self-Driving Cars, Transportation, Los Angeles, Technology, Autonomous Vehicles

213 points by ra7 67 days ago | 371 comments

4-Way Waymo Standoff Is Autonomous Vehicle Comedy Gold (roadandtrack.com)
Waymo's self-driving Jaguar I-Paces are all over San Francisco, and sometimes they do silly (and annoying) things.

Autonomous Vehicles, San Francisco, Comedy, AI

9 points by radpanda 73 days ago | 2 comments

Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week (twitter.com)

Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation, Technology, Business, Statistics

60 points by fldskfjdslkfj 80 days ago | 73 comments

Elon Musk admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving (electrek.co)
Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn’t actually know what it will take.

Autonomous Vehicles, Tesla, Elon Musk

11 points by ortusdux 84 days ago | 1 comments

Waymo closes $5.6B investment round (waymo.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve closed an oversubscribed investment round of $5.6 billion, led by Alphabet, with continued participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price.

Investments, Autonomous Vehicles, Technology, Business

88 points by ra7 85 days ago | 212 comments

Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year (theverge.com)
Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for the past few months, Elon Musk said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

Tesla, Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation, Bay Area, Technology

26 points by tantalor 86 days ago | 104 comments

U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed (npr.org)
The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Tesla, Government Regulation, Accidents

62 points by marban 91 days ago | 3 comments

Tesla driver blocks windscreen on public highway – report (drive.com.au)
A Tesla owner in the United States has allegedly covered up the car’s windscreen while driving on a public highway to beat its driver monitoring systems.

Tesla, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Technology, Law Enforcement

9 points by CRConrad 91 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla FSD crashes in fog, sun glare–Feds open new safety investigation (arstechnica.com)
Today, federal safety investigators opened a new investigation aimed at Tesla's electric vehicles.

Tesla, Safety, Autonomous Vehicles, Government Regulation, Accidents

6 points by belter 92 days ago | 2 comments

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation by NHTSA (techcrunch.com)
The top U.S. automotive safety regulator has opened a new investigation into Tesla’s so-called “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” software after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations — including one where a pedestrian was killed.

Autonomous Vehicles, Tesla, Safety, Government Regulation

18 points by mikece 92 days ago | 1 comments

Musk's Vow to Make Lots of Tesla Cybercabs Conflicts with US Rules (bloomberg.com)
Elon Musk promised to pump out robotaxis in high numbers when Tesla Inc. unveiled prototypes of its Cybercab last week.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Regulations

4 points by helsinkiandrew 94 days ago | 2 comments

Tesla offers little information on Robotaxi. Here's the deeper scoop (forbes.com.au)
After a great deal of hype, Tesla conducted its “We Robot” robotaxi reveal on Thursday Evening at Warner Studios in Los Angeles. The surprisingly short event consisted of a talk on the virtue of robotaxis by Elon Musk, plus an opportunity for guests to ride in a prototype vehicle around the studio lot. Also present were Optimus Prime robots which danced and served drinks. One rare surprising reveal was a 20-passenger “Robovan” meant for group transportation.

Tesla, Robotaxi, Autonomous Vehicles, Technology, Transportation

3 points by belter 95 days ago | 2 comments