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It's hard to stand on a sidewalk in San Francisco and not see a Waymo self-driving car pass by. But the road from dream to ...
While Google’s driverless cars have notched-up over 700,000 miles without causing a single crash (one car was rear-ended and another crashed while being driven manually), it seems Google plans ...
Google's Self-Driving Car Project has probably done more than anything else to bring the idea of driverless cars into the public conversation -- and to the attention of future-minded investors.
For Google, Krafcik's hiring shows the tech giant is serious about turning autonomous cars into a sustainable business. Google has promised to have a self-driving car in the public's hands by 2020.
After several years and thousands of miles of testing autonomous cars in California and Nevada, Google finally has something to show for its work – other than driving a blind man to get a taco ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration––the U.S. vehicle safety regulator––has said the driverless computer Google created to pilot its self-driving cars can be considered ...
Google's first accident in which its driverless vehicle was to blame involved a minor crash with a bus in Mountain View, California. The robot car wrongly judged that the bus would give way.
Google's driverless car project is now run by CEO John Krafcik as of September 2015. Google may partner with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to retrofit Chrysler Pacifica minivans for further testing.
In the midst of a longer piece on the top-secret Google X lab, The New York Times drops this bomb: "Google may turn one of the ideas – the driverless cars that it unleashed on California's roads ...
Google’s new driverless-car prototype is downright hugable. The company unveiled its latest self-driving vehicle, and it looks like a cartoon koala crossed with a smart car wearing a fez.
Apparently the self-driving car thought so, too. This was bound to happen sooner or later. Google’s self-driving cars are logging some 15,000 autonomous miles per week on public streets.
Google announced back in 2010 that it logged more than 140,000 miles in a self-driving car as part of a secret project. It’s also shown off modified versions of automakers’ cars altered to be ...