The Waymo robotaxi honking problem has been resolved (for real this time)
The great nightly Waymo honk-a-thon — in which the company's robotaxis erupted into a chorus of honking at night's end in a ...
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‘Be a Rapid Follower,’ Outgoing S.F. Muni Director Advises
Jeffrey Tumlin, the recent former director of transportation at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, explains ...
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Ridership Lulls and Autonomous Vehicles: How San Francisco Transit Fared the Last Five Years
Jeffrey Tumlin oversaw the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency during a period of tumult for public transit and city streets.
Self-driving cars are popping up in the West. But are they safe?
Waymo, the self-driving taxi, is gaining popularity across the U.S. It's entering new markets in 2024 while it continues to ...
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Waymo’s journey shows the path ahead for AI agents
Cracking the big city still required ironing out some very weird bugs, such as the bizarre 2am outbreaks of honking that woke up San Francisco residents near a Waymo parking lot last summer.
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Uber and Lyft to offer driverless rideshare cars
with software glitches causing repeated honking in a Waymo parking lot in San Francisco last August. In 2023, activists targeted these robotaxis with a cone campaign, disabling sensors with ...
Pour one out for Cruise and why autonomous vehicle test miles dropped 50%
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Waymo’s journey shows the path ahead for AI agents
Waymo’s acceleration was all the more striking in a year that saw General Motors shut its Cruise robotaxi unit after pouring $10bn into the venture since 2016, as well as Apple abandoning its Project ...