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Apr 25, 2025
The Trump administration wants more autonomous vehicles on the road. Americans aren't so sure.
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Almost two thirds of drivers say they’re afraid of AVs.
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Dec 11, 2024
Would you trust a driverless robotaxi? Waymo hopes so.
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“It’s pretty uniform and impressive how much people just love it,” said John Gravios, Senior Editor at Wired, about Waymo, the new self-driving robotaxi.
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Feb 12, 2024
When driverless cars are attacked, who’s the target?
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Some observers think they are a proxy for Big Tech.
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Oct 25, 2019
Self-driving big-rigs could be coming to a freeway near you
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It might sound terrifying, but autonomous semis are an easier engineering challenge than cars.
Aug 21, 2019
Why Waymo is sharing some of its self-driving car data
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Figuring out self-driving cars is one of the biggest technology challenges for companies. Sharing data could benefit the whole industry.
Feb 8, 2019
Reporter’s notebook: The first driverless spin
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One man's autonomous adventure includes scary left turns, robot rule-followers and teen snark.
Dec 7, 2018
Self-driving cars are racing self-driving regulations to the streets
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Who will win the race?
Jan 31, 2018
The Waymo vs. Uber driverless car war lands in court
Waymo claims a former employee took trade secrets to rival Uber. The intellectual property dispute could have implications for a range of industries. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
May 31, 2017
Uber fires star engineer at heart of self-driving legal battle
A top and very expensive engineer at Uber is out. The company has fired the engineer at the center of a high-stakes legal battle with Waymo, the self-driving venture of Alphabet’s Google. Earlier this year, Anthony Levandowski was accused of stealing trade secrets from his former job at Google. After he refused to hand over evidence, […]

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