Autonomous Driving Goes Into High Gear

By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren GoodeON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Chris Urmson, CEO of the self-driving-truck company Aurora....

Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?

August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google's Waymo and GM's Cruise to begin charging customers f...

23 of the Best Boring Movies

Social media movie discourse is at it again. This time around, I'm being horrified by posts from younger moviegoers who freely admit to fast-forwarding through movies to skip past "the boring parts" (...

Texas Rationalized Killing Poor People With Water Saws By Using Creationism. The Establishment Clause Is Done.

Break in the case of a true believer."Not guilty, Your Honor. Yes, I ate my wife, but you can't imprison me for it. The Bible tells us in Genesis 2:7 that we were all made of clay of the earth. Since ...

Cruise inches into Waymo's territory in the Phoenix area

Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has expanded its robotaxi radius in the Phoenix area by 20x as it seeks to compete with Alphabet-owned Waymo in its home court.Cruise soft-launch...

Musk Will Pay Your Legal Fees If You Liked Tweets Joking About Cops Killing A Man Over Cigarettes

Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesElon Musk has a punchable face. This is factual; Social Network inspiration Mark Zuckerberg will presumably be the one doing the punching if Musk's...

Someone Has to Deliver Your Packages in This Scorching Heat

Caitlin Harrington[photo1]On the day that Salem, Oregon, smashed the record for the highest known temperature west of the Cascade Mountains two summers ago, FedEx driver Austin Trent was roasting insi...

NHTSA investigating Tesla Autopilot after yet another fatal crash

Tesla's Autopilot driver assistance feature is the subject of yet another federal safety investigation. Although the details are scarce, Reuters reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini...

Uber toots its eco horn and gears up for big sustainability drive

Uber unveiled a handful of new eco-focused features, services, and expansions today, as the ride-hailing giant doubles down on previous efforts to align itself with sustainable transport.The announcem...

California lawmakers and AV industry battle for future of self-driving trucks

A California bill that would require a trained human safety operator to be present any time a heavy-duty autonomous vehicle operates on public roads in the state is getting traction. The bill, first i...

Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say

On Wednesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would see automatic emergency braking become a standard feature on all new light passenger ...

Microsoft Surface Pro X webcams quit working last week--flawed workaround issued

Microsoft has issued a workaround for broken Surface Pro X cameras following user reports that the integrated webcams stopped working on May 23. The tech giant says it's working with OEM partners to f...

It Looks Like 2 Of The 9 Supreme Court Justices Are Willing To Let 3rd Graders Be Sent To The Coal Mines

(Photo by Staci Zaretsky)An interesting path in the long trail of gifts and monies that changed hands from Harlan Crow to Clarence Thomas was, once you look past the illegality of it, kind of heartfel...

This Week in Apps: ChatGPT comes to iPhone, Bing AI efforts expand, Instagram's Twitter clone

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as co...

Cruise, Waymo near approval to charge for 24/7 robotaxis in San Francisco

Self-driving vehicle companies Waymo and Cruise are on the cusp of securing final approval to charge fares for fully autonomous robotaxi rides throughout the city of San Francisco at all hours of the ...

You can now hail an Uber by calling a number

Uber's making it easier to hail a ride -- no app required.The company announced Wednesday at its annual Go-GET event in New York City that it's launching a new ride-hailing option for people who aren'...

Exploding airbag inflators strike again--1 million GM SUVs are recalledvar abtest_1939217 = new ABTest(1939217, 'click');

There's another massive airbag safety scandal brewing. Last week, General Motors issued a recall for almost a million SUVs in order to replace potentially dangerous airbag inflators, the third such re...

Is Your Child a Changeling?

Is Your Child a Changeling?

How Soon You Should Update Your ID and Registration After Moving

The list of places to update your address when you move is long and the process tedious, whether you're heading to a new neighborhood or across the country. While some of these updates are important b...

Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet

[photo1]Paresh DaveFor self-driving-car developers, like many iPhone and Google Photos users, the growing cost of storing files on the cloud has become a nagging headache.Early on, robocar companies p...