Saturday, January 11, 2025

Seagulls: Quirks on the Highway Confuse Self-Driving Cars

From Quartz To watch a self-driving car park itself seems like magic. Pull back the curtain, it’s a lot messier. Cars mistake snowflakes for obstacles, lose lane markings, and miss cars on the side of the road. Engineers are racing to make cars perform better than humans, with the aim of saving millions of lives each year. Human error is to blame for

Waymo ‘Early Rider’ Feedback: Autonomous Cars Need a Method to Gently Wake Napping Passengers at their Destinations

400 users of Google’s Waymo self-driving cars, ages 9-69, are using the service to go to work, school, shopping, entertainment – and rating it From KTAR News PHOENIX — A select group of Arizonans has been shuttling around the Phoenix area in self-driving cars for the past year, providing insight into the future of the technology. Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company,

Tesla Putting 100% Self-Driving System into Every New Car

LA to NYC without a single touch thanks to sonar, radar, 8 surround cameras, sensors and a “supercomputer in the car” Electric vehicle maker Tesla announced this week that all of its vehicles currently in production are being equipped with the hardware that will allow every car to have self-driving capability, which the company described as “full autonomy.” “As of