Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! SB 915 ADVANCES DESPITE PUSHBACK Should local governments be allowed to pass their own regulations around autonomous vehicles (also known as robotaxis, self-driving vehicles or AVs)? A bill that would do just that moved one step closer to becoming law on Wednesday, when the Senate Local Government […]
The federal government awarded Fort Worth $2 million to test weather sensors on autonomous freight truck routes. The grant was one of 34 doled out by the U.S. Department of Transportation to cities last month as a part of its Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation initiative, a creation of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law designed […]
Read the full story on Modern Car Collector Lotus Wants To Make Self-Driving Sports Cars There’s little doubt the legacy of Lotus making lightweight, simple, enthusiast-focused sports cars is sunsetting. With new ownership via China’s Geely, big changes have come, among them electrification and more complexity in design. Now Lotus says it might make self-driving […]
A man is facing an attempted grand theft auto charge after trying — and failing — to steal a self-driving taxi in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night. The LAPD said in a statement Sunday that Vincent Maurice Jones, 33, got into a fully autonomous Waymo car just after it dropped off a passenger on […]
By Hyunjoo Jin and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) -A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the latest public attack on such vehicles in the U.S. The incident began around 9 p.m. PST on Saturday (0500 GMT Sunday) […]
Hong Kong-based marine tech start-up Clearbot is set to launch a new generation of bigger solar-powered autonomous boats to boost its efforts to clean up polluted waters in India. Clearbot’s latest fleet of self-driving electric boats will each have the capacity to pick up around 500kg of plastic waste and other rubbish from the ocean […]