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Electric Vehicles

Why AVs still struggle with the unknown

When it comes to “edge cases,” even a teen with a fresh driver’s license has a leg up on autonomous vehicles.


A Rivian vehicle with lidar sensors.
Electric Vehicles

Rivian spells out its autonomous driving vision

The EV startup announced AI and autonomy advancements during its first “Autonomy and AI Day” in Palo Alto on Thursday.


A member of the SciAutononics II team gives a thumbs-up gesture from the chase vehicle as they follow their autonomous vehicle from the starting line in a quest for a million-dollar prize at the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Challenge on March 13, 2004 near Barstow, California.
Electric Vehicles

Our self-driving future has yet to materialize. What’s next for AV tech?

Autonomous vehicles have yet to live up to the hype around them, but industry stakeholders still see them as a way to transform transportation as we know it.


A Waymo autonomous vehicle drives along California Street on April 11, 2022 in San Francisco, California.
Electric Vehicles

AV industry players team up—and more autonomous news from April

Waymo and Toyota said they’ve struck a preliminary agreement to collaborate on developing and deploying self-driving vehicle tech for personal vehicles.


Cruise self driving car
Electric Vehicles

Why GM is pulling the plug on its robotaxi business

GM is the latest automaker to shift its focus from fully autonomous vehicles to advanced driver assistance systems.


Tesla robotaxi
Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi reveal prompts skepticism about tech, timelines

“This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” Edwin Olson, CEO of AV company May Mobility, tells Tech Brew.


A blue Zoox autonomous robotaxi
Electric Vehicles

No brakes, no steering wheel, no driver—US regulator paves way for driverless cars

For the first time, the NHTSA acknowledged that not all cars need steering wheels, brakes, or other manual controls.

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