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Self-driving cars

October 2024

  • people take pics of the Tesla robotaxi, which has both doors wide open

    Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab’

    Investors criticised lack of detail about the ‘robotaxi’ showcased by Elon Musk

July 2024

  • Gulu Town<br>Since 2006 Northern Uganda is quite peaceful. Former war-torn area around Gulu develops well and people stay out after dark and enjoy nightlife. Gulu is becoming the second largest town of Uganda.

    Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

    Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm

June 2024

  • White car with orange lettering spelling cruise in showroom.

    General Motors names new CEO of troubled self-driving subsidiary Cruise

    Robotaxi service recovering from gruesome collision with pedestrian that triggered suspension of California license

May 2024

  • Wayve’s Ford Mustang MachE

    UK AI startup Wayve wins $1bn funding for self-driving car software

    Japan’s SoftBank leads largest investment to date in a European artificial intelligence company

April 2024

  • Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, left, dressed in dark suit and white shirt and tie, sits at a table with besuited Chinese Premier Li Qiang (right) in Beijing

    ‘Watershed moment’ for Tesla as Elon Musk’s visit to China reaps quick reward

  • Elon Musk gets out of a dark Tesla vehicle

    Elon Musk makes unannounced visit to China

  • A view of a computer screen mounted on a dashboard, seen in a car at night.

    Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says

  • aerial view of a doughnut shaped building

    Apple lays off 600 workers in California after shuttering self-driving car project

March 2024

  • Automated bathroom in the future.

    Shock of the old
    Shock of the old: 11 wild views of the future – from winged postmen to self-cleaning homes

    Do you have to brush your own hair, own an umbrella or keep at least one hand on your steering wheel? Don’t blame these visionary thinkers

February 2024

  • man in a suit giving speech on a stage

    Apple reportedly scraps multibillion-dollar plan to build electric car

    Reports say tech giant made announcement during meeting and forecast layoffs, ending secretive and resource-heavy project
  • Hyundai electric car at motor show

    Science Weekly
    How green are electric cars?

    Electric cars might seem like a no-brainer on a warming planet, but there are plenty of people who remain sceptical about everything from their battery life to their carbon impact and the environmental and human rights costs of their parts. Madeleine Finlay consults Auke Hoekstra, known as the internet’s ‘EV debunker in chief’, to unpick the myths, realities and grey areas surrounding electric cars
  • Smoke billows from a car on fire as a crowd of people surround it.

    Driverless taxi vandalized and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown

    California authorities investigating if attack on Google’s Waymo car is latest in series of protests targeting autonomous vehicles

January 2024

  • A white car with electronics all over it in the middle of a city intersection.

    GM’s Cruise reveals dual US probes into grisly collision and company’s response

  • File photo of a Tesla electric car dealership in Sydney, Australia

    Tesla leak: Australian judge refuses carmaker’s ‘draconian’ request for arrest warrant

  • Satnav

    Satnavs and Google Maps to be updated in readiness for driverless cars

  • A white self-driving car, with 'Cruise' written on the side, turns in an intersection.

    Why are self-driving cars exempt from traffic tickets in San Francisco?

December 2023

  • View from inside a self-driving car navigating a junction

    Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026, says transport secretary

  • A man rides an ebike in Hermosa Beach, California.

    ‘It feels very fun and freeing’: US sees ebike boom after years of false starts

  • A Cruise vehicle on display in Detroit.

    GM’s Cruise slashes more than 900 jobs after recalling robotaxis

  • Christian Wolmar

    Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere

    Christian Wolmar
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