If you had the chance to take a ride in a self-driving vehicle ... driver safety rather than give the impression that the car is driving itself,” Schieldrop stated in a release.

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Self-driving cars are coming. It remains to be seen how long that will take. Plenty of vehicles can more or less drive themselves on highways, but for now, they still can’t completely reliably ...

A self-driving Waymo car, which is not being blamed for the crash, was among six vehicles struck when a fast-moving vehicle slammed into a line of car stopped at a traffic light at the corner of 6 ...

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Self-driving cars might offer a fix but pose risks of their own, experts say. A New Year's Day truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans killed 14 people and injured 35 others, the FBI said ...

And from a practical standpoint, why is trapping riders inside the only option when Waymo's self-driving cars go haywire? Earlier this year, a man experienced a similar incident when a Waymo car ...

Waymo started as part of the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009 and operates in Metro Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Johns, who ironically works in AI initiatives ...