2025-09-22
He is in China, where by national law a human has to be ready to takeover and remotely drive their robots/cars. Here is what is behind the telecomm curtain at Baidu, among China's largest AV/ADS operators: [image]
Bloomberg
A profile of Derek Li, founder of China's top adaptive learning edtech Squirrel AI, whose business is fueled by the country's relentless academic pressure
could it actually work? … Bluesky: @nouveaux-horizons : They're gonna hate him when they grow up. John Berry / @aniccia : He is in China, where by national law a human has to be re...
2024-04-10
GM Cruise is about to restart crewed/manual robot driving in Phoenix, nearly 6 months and ~$ Billion spent since they shutdown. Effectively, back to about where they were in 2020; still with no independent verification required of their tech before they robomenace again.
TechCrunch
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix
2024-02-01
Aptiv's de-Motional: “Aptiv will not participate in future funding rounds...we will look to sell” A lot more lightly used occasionally crashed janky robocars than buyers. Leaves Hyundai to eat Motional's losses Motional has reported 5 crashes, all in Vegas. What fails in Vegas
TechCrunch
Robotaxi company Motional loses capital support from automotive supplier Aptiv, the other half of a $4B joint venture with Hyundai that created Motional in 2019
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2024-01-23
Waymo's the only moonshot inside Google X. The other Other Bets are wayless ambitious & expensive. Waymo burns >$3 B/yr w ~0 prospects for breakeven in the foreseeable (~5 yr) future, even if they master fwy & LA. Former Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat is gradually tightening her grip.
Bloomberg
Source: Alphabet's moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin out projects as startups; sources say the unit is laying off dozens of employees
2023-01-30
Buried the lede: last week, San Francisco firefighters had to shatter a front window of an uncrewed Cruise AV to stop it from interfering with them fighting a major fire in the Western Addition These robot “drivers” are way too dangerously unintelligent. https://www.wired.com/...
NBC News
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
2023-01-29
Buried the lede: last week, San Francisco firefighters had to shatter a front window of an uncrewed Cruise AV to stop it from interfering with them fighting a major fire in the Western Addition These robot “drivers” are way too dangerously unintelligent. https://www.wired.com/...
NBC News
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …