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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them
Potholes are a pesky problem — just ask scooter company Lime, which listed them as an official risk to its…
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Uber partner Avride is under investigation for self-driving crashes
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company that has partnered with Uber,…
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Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch
Nuro has been granted a permit to begin driverless testing of Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with its autonomous tech on…
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Uber taps Hertz to clean, charge, and fix its Lucid Motors robotaxis
Uber’s forthcoming luxury robotaxi service with Lucid Motors and Nuro is getting a fourth partner: Hertz. The companies announced Thursday…
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Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends in with an acquisition by Caterpillar
Monarch Tractor’s assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to pivot to a software services business, according…
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A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles…
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Volkswagen begins testing its self-driving microbuses in Los Angeles ahead of launch with Uber
Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have started testing autonomous microbuses in Los Angeles, the companies announced Wednesday, the latest…
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Waymo’s skyrocketing ridership in one chart
Waymo is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across 10 U.S. cities, the company shared in a post…
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Who’s driving Waymo’s self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police.
Last August, a fire ripped through 10 acres of grass on either side of California’s I-280 near Redwood City. Traffic…
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Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes
It’s been almost exactly one year since Trevor Milton, the founder of now-bankrupt electric truck startup Nikola, was pardoned by…
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Travis Kalanick launches a new company called Atoms focused on robotics
Uber founder Travis Kalanick has a new company called Atoms focused on robotics that, according to its website, will operate…
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Nuro is testing its autonomous vehicle tech on Tokyo’s streets
Nuro, the Silicon Valley-based startup backed by Nvidia, Uber, and SoftBank, is testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Japan. Toyota…
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