The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, buy an autonomous vehicles start-up as the robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.

What started out as an Uber pickup from the Atlanta airport turned into a melee on the side of the interstate—over air conditioning.

Waymo, the self-driving car company, will expand its service area to LA County neighborhoods, including Inglewood and Silverlake.

In 2018, when Zhen Lian, then a PhD student at Cornell, started working on a research project about self-driving cars, the technology still seemed like “a futuristic topic,” she says. Just five years ...

Five vehicles owned by Google’s self-driving spinoff Waymo were set ablaze last Sunday during protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

The TL;DR: Waymo’s self-driving car rides are consistently more expensive than comparative offerings from Uber and Lyft — and it doesn’t seem to matter.

Automakers have expressed frustration with the agency's slow reviews of autonomous vehicles. Under the law, fully self-driving vehicles do not need NHTSA approval if they have required human controls.

In all eight tests, the self-driving Tesla did not slow as it approached the bus, struck the child-sized dummy and continued driving.

Though the test was completed with child-sized manikins as opposed to real children, the Tesla failed the test all six times.

Uber will partner with UK tech firm Wayve to launch a small number of driverless taxis and shuttle services in the capital next year – after trials beginning in the spring.

Waymo driverless taxis capture troves of video footage in order to operate, but the company reveals very little about how much data is stored—and for how long.