Earlier this year, the robotaxi company Waymo introduced new messages to the dome-shaped screens on its vehicles’ roofs. When a Waymo car is yielding to pedestrians, its dome now displays iconography meant to explain to both people in front of it and cars behind it what’s going on. Sha...
Tesla co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted last week that Smart Summon had been used more than 550,000 times within days of becoming available. Musk has expressed confidence that next year Tesla would launch a "robo-taxi" platform that would let self-driving vehicles provide people ...
Of course, getting a computer to read a human’s mind is only half the battle — humans will also have to become accustomed to having autonomous cars next to them on freeways and neighborhood streets as well. This, experts say, may actually be more of a challenge. While humans an...
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