BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

The result of this very human fallibility is blood on the streets. Nearly 1.2 million people die in road crashes globally ...

Although flying cars do not yet exist, self-driving cars now do. California-based company Waymo has worked on their fully autonomous cars for the past 15 years, and today they brought a test model ...

TikTok user Becky Levin Navarro posted a video on April 20 claiming a Waymo car trapped her and her fellow passengers on the side of a highway after heading in the wrong direction. “This is the ...

In a recent conversation, Wall Street veterans Douglas McIntyre and Lee Jackson discuss Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) involvement in the self-driving car industry through its subsidiary, Waymo.

The model that Tesla is seemingly pursuing essentially puts your own self-driving vehicle in your driveway. The benefits of that are clear ... their car right now, relying on Waymo at home ...

Waymo’s self-driving robotaxis ... end” training based on videos of driving. A pure “end to end” model takes in sensor data (in this case, camera images) and outputs a driving plan.

A Waymo self-driving car parked on a street in San Francisco on April 29, 2023. After several minutes in a parking space, the car backed up, pulled out into the street and drove off. There was no ...

Pedestrians exit a Waymo self-driving car in front of Google's San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, June 7, 2024. Smith Collection/gado/Gado via Getty Images At least in theory, a self ...

In addition to hailing a ride, you may also have your Uber Eats meal delivered by an autonomous car ... It's not clear when riders will be able to hitch a self-driving ride with Waymo in Tokyo.

Waymo ride-hailers in the Texas city drove right into a “Black Mirror” episode when their self-driving car stopped ... road with the dysfunctional car in the background. In a caption to ...