Ben Jordan – Why Your Car Will Never Drive You Places đź«
A truly informative and fun video on the complexities and problems of personal autonomous vehicles, with an emphasis on Tesla FSD.
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Are robotaxis the future? Or now in the past?
Robotaxi.rodeo
Are robotaxis the future? Or now in the past?
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Bloomberg – Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk
Article in Bloomberg on Tesla’s large recall in China due to problems with “AutoPilot”.
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Reuters – GM robotaxi unit Cruise offers $75,000 to resolve crash probe
Article in Reuters by David Shepardson. Covers how Cruise is offering to settle for lying to the CPUC for $75k, when they are actually liable for $1.5m.
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SF Standard – State Lawmaker Wants To Start Ticketing San Francisco Robotaxis
Article in SF Standard by Joshua Bote. Covers how robotaxis currently immune to traffic tickets, like red light running, but how state legislator Phil Ting is looking at fixing that loophole.
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Government sources of information
There are several very useful sources of information on robotaxis from government agencies: San Francisco City DMV and CPUC NHTSA
Cruise safety information & other documents
Cruise publishes information about their safety practices on their website. It includes information on their safety research, testing, redundancy, and more. They also publish a lengthy safety report from November 2022. Documentation on their technology and its development is available as well. Plus the Cruise news blog contains everything from…
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Robotaxi.rodeo is a non-commercial site that is not funded nor backed by any organization. It is completely volunteer based and requires almost no funding ($40/year) to operate. This means that all content is solely based on the opinions of the authors. It also means that you won’t see ads, including…
Forbes – Buttigieg Seeks Robocar Safety. Here’s How He Should Do It
See full original article by Brad Templeton at Forbes. In the wake of the recent tumultuous period for General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi unit, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigeieg recently declared, “We’re going to do everything we can with the authorities we do have, which are not trivial,” to ensure self-driving vehicles…
Abandon ship, Cruise is going down!
The captain and the top crew members have already departed. 24% of the crew has walked the plank The ship is listing and taking on serious water. This is not going to end well.
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NPR – Driverless car startup Cruise’s no good, terrible year
Article from NPR.org by Dara Kerr on what a horrible, and self inflicted year, 2023 was for Cruise. Also covers how the problems of Cruise might also effect Waymo.
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NBC News – Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws
Article from NBC News by Bigad Shaban and Michael Bott. Covers how robotaxis do indeed sometimes violate traffic laws, but how in California they cannot be ticketed. Also covers safety in general.
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TechCrunch – Facing roadblocks, China’s robotaxi darlings apply the brakes
Article from TechCrunch by Rita Liao. Losses push China's self-driving upstarts to seek new revenue streams.
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SF Standard – Cruise Imploded in 2023. Can the Robotaxi Industry Recover in the New Year?
Article from the SF Standard by Joshua Bote. Reviews the high and low points of what happened to Cruise in 2023, and speculates on what might happen to them in the future.
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GM $120M Lawsuit against San Francisco
In a clear sign that GM and Cruise have given up on trying to succeed in San Francisco, they have filed a lawsuit to attempt to law back taxes paid to the city back to 2016.
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Forbes – Robocar 2023 In Review: The Fall Of Cruise
Article from Forbes by Brad Templeton. A very in depth review of what happened in 2023 with respect to robotaxis, with a concentration on the problems of Cruise. Includes ideas on what might happen in the future.
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