Hacker News with Generative AI: Self-Driving Cars

Waymo's robotaxis are now available to everyone in Los Angeles (theverge.com)
Waymo is ditching its waitlist in Los Angeles, much like it did before in Phoenix and San Francisco, making its fully autonomous vehicles available to anyone who downloads the company’s Waymo One app.

Self-Driving Cars, Transportation, Los Angeles, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

9 points by gmays 5 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla pushes update for highway driving, but only for newer vehicles (electrek.co)
Tesla has pushed a new (Supervised) Full Self-Driving update with the promised end-to-end neural networks for highway driving.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Automotive Industry, Technology, Software Updates

9 points by peutetre 6 days ago | 0 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 9 days ago | 371 comments

Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) [video] (youtube.com)

Self-Driving Cars, Urban Planning, Technology, Transportation, Future

42 points by mbs159 11 days ago | 50 comments

Tesla Using 'Full Self-Driving' Hits Deer Without Slowing, Doesn't Stop (jalopnik.com)
Tesla’s approach to automotive autonomy is a unique one: Rather than using pesky sensors, which cost money, the company has instead decided to rely only on the output from the car’s cameras. Its computers analyze every pixel, crunch through tons of data, and then apparently decide to just plow into deer and keep on trucking.

Self-Driving Cars, Tesla, Automotive Safety

29 points by harambae 23 days ago | 1 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.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Elon Musk, Technology, Automotive

11 points by peutetre 27 days ago | 3 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.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Elon Musk, Technology, Automotive

10 points by abduhl 28 days ago | 1 comments

US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash (reuters.com)
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.

Self-Driving Cars, Tesla, Government Regulation, Safety

417 points by jjulius 34 days ago | 976 comments

Tesla needs to come clean about HW3 before the word 'fraud' comes out (electrek.co)
The walls are closing on Tesla’s claim that millions of its vehicles with Hardware 3 (HW3) computers will be capable of unsupervised self-driving.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Technology, Automotive Industry

54 points by peutetre 36 days ago | 51 comments

Ex-Waymo CEO is not impressed by Tesla's Robotaxi (businessinsider.com)
It seems former Waymo CEO John Krafcik was unimpressed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk's much-hyped "We, Robot" event.

Self-Driving Cars, Tesla, Waymo, Elon Musk, Technology

6 points by doener 40 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla Preferred to Hit Oncoming Car Not Pedestrian (reddit.com)
Tesla preferred to hit the oncoming car instead of hitting the pedestrian who fell on the road.

Self-Driving Cars, AI Safety, Tesla, Accidents

8 points by 14 41 days ago | 3 comments

The bill finally comes due for Elon Musk (theverge.com)
For almost as long as he’s been CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk has been bullshitting us about self-driving cars.

Elon Musk, Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Business

9 points by thunderbong 42 days ago | 3 comments

The bill comes due for Elon Musk (theverge.com)
For almost as long as he’s been CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk has been bullshitting us about self-driving cars.

Elon Musk, Tesla, Self-Driving Cars

13 points by iancmceachern 43 days ago | 5 comments

Musk celebrates winning lawsuit over Tesla FSD claims with embarrassing defense (electrek.co)
Elon Musk is celebrating winning a lawsuit over his misleading claims regarding Tesla’s self-driving program.

Elon Musk, Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Lawsuits

13 points by TheAlchemist 49 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla auto drive marketing lawsuit dismissed (bloomberg.com)
Tesla Inc. won dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit alleging misleading statements about self-driving capabilities propped up its stock price, though the company still faces numerous other complaints and regulatory investigations of its marketing.

Tesla, Lawsuits, Self-Driving Cars, Marketing, Stock Price

4 points by lando2319 51 days ago | 1 comments

A stalled Waymo brought Kamala Harris' motorcade to a halt in SF (sfstandard.com)
A motorcade escorting Vice President Kamala Harris to San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel was brought to a standstill late Friday by a stalled Waymo.

Self-Driving Cars, Politics, Transportation, San Francisco

61 points by rntn 53 days ago | 59 comments

The Snake Oil Salesman's Promises for Tesla's Full Self-Driving AI (twitter.com)

Tesla, Artificial Intelligence, Self-Driving Cars, Automotive Industry, Criticism

11 points by nabla9 62 days ago | 4 comments

Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos (arstechnica.com)
On a Friday evening last November, police chased a silver sedan across the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Self-Driving Cars, Accidents, Technology

73 points by PaulHoule 67 days ago | 125 comments

Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions (understandingai.org)
It’s Autonomy Week! This is the second of five articles exploring the state of the self-driving industry.

Self-Driving Cars, Accidents, Autonomous Vehicles

42 points by 2bluesc 70 days ago | 98 comments

Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos (arstechnica.com)
On a Friday evening last November, police chased a silver sedan across the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Self-Driving Cars, Technology, Accidents, Transportation

8 points by MBCook 71 days ago | 4 comments

Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions (understandingai.org)
It’s Autonomy Week! This is the second of five articles exploring the state of the self-driving industry.

Self-Driving Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, Accidents, Human Error

8 points by ra7 71 days ago | 26 comments

Driverless semis could be months away (arstechnica.com)
On a sunny morning in December, an 18-wheeler will pull into a truck depot in Palmer, Texas, just south of Dallas. The driver will step out of the cab and help transfer his trailer to a second rig outfitted with powerful sensors.

Self-Driving Cars, Transportation, Technology, Logistics

9 points by GaggiX 72 days ago | 2 comments

Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase (notateslaapp.com)
Tesla has changed how they advertise and sell Full Self-Driving on their website. Although the text changes are small, this change could have greater implications in the future.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Technology, Automotive Industry

91 points by ado__dev 72 days ago | 77 comments

Tesla says will launch Full Self Driving in Europe and China early next year (cnbc.com)

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Europe, China, Automotive

7 points by belter 77 days ago | 6 comments

Self-Driving Cars Get Help from Humans Miles Away (nytimes.com)

Self-Driving Cars, Technology, Transportation, Human Interaction

16 points by jgalt212 78 days ago | 19 comments

What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future (theverge.com)

Self-Driving Cars, History, Technology, Science

8 points by rntn 80 days ago | 1 comments

Waymo driverless vehicle re-routes into oncoming traffic (cnn.com)