The CEO of an automaker should intrinsically want to sell more cars. He or she may have short-term reasons why that aim is unlikely or a low priority — be it production constraints or a product line-u ...

Uber customers in Austin may notice a new offer when they open the app and hail a ride: an invitation to signal their interest in a Waymo robotaxi. For now, this doesn’t translate into a Waymo ...

General Motors announced major layoffs at Cruise, its robotaxi venture, as it moves away from robotaxis following an unfortunate event in Las Vegas last year. About 1,000 employees have been put ...

The automaker is also testing a similar robotaxi service in California. In those rides, a human is behind the wheel and ready to intervene if the self-driving vehicle encounters issues.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Three people suffered minor injuries after a hit-and-run driver slammed into the back of a Waymo robotaxi Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.

General Motors’ Cruise will lay off about 1,000 employees, including CEO Marc Whitten, as it shifts focus from robotaxi to personal self-driving vehicle development. The move follows the ...

Despite huge market potential, Tesla must win in autonomous driving and humanoid robots, where it currently lags competitors.

part of a previously announced plan to halt robotaxi service and absorb the operations into its broader business. Several of Cruise’s leaders, including Chief Executive Officer Marc Whitten ...

The move to gut the staff punctuates GM’s rapid retreat from the robotaxi business and strategic shift on self-driving cars. As recently as late 2024, the company had been planning to take the ...

The layoffs come nearly two months after GM said it would no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and would instead focus on building personal autonomous vehicle technology.

The company on Wednesday opened up its interest list so that curious riders can declare their interest in potentially being matched with a Waymo robotaxi, once that partnership launches "soon" in ...

MobilEye is an Israeli company, a unit of Intel, which has a dominant position in the driver assistance (ADAS) market among legacy automakers. They made the original Tesla Autopilot, but broke ...