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Uber nearing autonomous cars without human backup driver
January 19, 2018 Tom Krisher - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDETROIT – Uber plans to carry passengers in autonomous vehicles without human backup drivers in about the same time frame as competitors, which expect to be on the road at the latest sometime next year, the service’s autonomous vehicle chief…
Google’s Waymo rolls out autonomous vans without human drivers
November 8, 2017 Tom Krisher - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDETROIT – A self-driving car company created by Google is pulling the human backup driver from behind the steering wheel and will test vehicles on public roads with only an employee in the back seat. The move by Waymo started…
Lyft forms own autonomous vehicle unit, will open network
July 24, 2017 The Associated PressDETROIT – Lyft said Friday that it is setting up its own unit to develop autonomous vehicle technology, but its approach will be different from other companies and partnerships working on self-driving cars. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing service said it…
Waymo, Lyft to team up on self-driving vehicles
May 15, 2017 The Associated PressNEW YORK – Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Google’s parent Alphabet Inc., and Lyft Inc. are teaming up to road test autonomous cars in a potential challenge to Uber Technologies Inc. In its statement, Lyft said Waymo holds…
FCA, Google begin offering rides in self-driving cars
April 25, 2017 Dee-Ann Durbin - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDETROIT – Fiat Chrysler and Google for the first time will offer rides to the public in the self-driving vehicles they are building under an expanding partnership. The companies announced in the spring of last year that they would build…
Uber resumes self-driving car program after brief suspension
March 27, 2017 The Associated PressNEW YORK – Uber says it is resuming its self-driving car program in Arizona and Pittsburgh after it was suspended following a crash over the weekend. The company had also grounded self-driving cars in San Francisco over the weekend but…
Self-driving car prototypes need less human help, data show
February 2, 2017 Justin Pritchard - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSLOS ANGELES – Self-driving car prototypes appear to be getting better at negotiating California streets and highways without a human backup driver intervening, according to data made public Wednesday by California transportation regulators. The data reflect safety-related incidents reported by…