A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars
“While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice.” — waymo.com/blog/2025/12...
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors
What? Oh, never mind. — We'll always have Twitter to remember him. [embedded post] Mastodon: @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai : @Techmeme — The safety record of this minuscule population of vehicle...
A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars
A recent power outage in San Francisco shows how vulnerable self-driving vehicles can be when problems arise.
Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and getting impatient with pedestrians, as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive”
Autonomous vehicles are adopting humanlike qualities, making illegal U-turns and flooring it the second the light goes green
An analysis of Waymo data covering nearly 100M driverless miles in four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers
I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash. The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding, but we all knew.
Jaguar Land Rover plans to resume some UK production after an August cyberattack; an analyst says the hack wiped out ~£5M in daily profit and delayed 30K+ cars
Update Holly Williams / The Independent : Jaguar Land Rover issues major update after crippling cyberattack Stewart Burnett / Automotive World : JLR announces phased return to UK production Akshaya As...
A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police
Heather Knight / New York Times : X: @rtwlz , @ritwikpavan , @yimbyland , @tbpn , @questionableway , @rowanfornow , @pitdesi , @bryancsk , @opinonhaver , @humantransit , @armanddoma , and @terronk . ...
Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely “will take time”
British automaker Jaguar Land Rover hasn't been able to make cars this month after major breach
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
and It Could Happen Again Vyom Ramani / Digit : Vibe-hacking based AI attack turned Claude against its safeguard: Here's how Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2503: Anthropic's Claude helps ...
Trump hosted a gala dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP, including Justin Sun, and said he was fulfilling his promise to make the US the world's “crypto capital”
and no access to the president NBC News : Who attended Trump's crypto dinner? Photos and social media offer some clues Vignesh Karunanidhi / crypto.news : TRON's Justin Sun vows to cement Trump, US cr...