By the end of this decade, your next Uber ride might not have a driver at all. At least, that’s what Uber wants you (and its investors on Wall Street to believe.) Uber announced a new partnership today with luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid and the robotics company Nuro. Under the agreement, Uber plans to […]
Robotaxi Expert Suggests Elon Musk Will Try to ‘Fake’ Cybercabs in June
John Krafcik, the former CEO of the robotaxi company Waymo from 2015-2021, knows a thing or two about the driverless vehicle industry. And when he says that Tesla CEO Elon Musk might use some extremely shady tactics to fake the launch of his own robotaxi service this summer in Austin, Texas, people stand up and […]
GM Axes Half of Cruise as It Ditches Robotaxi Business
As companies like Waymo and Tesla plan to step on the gas and expand robotaxi offerings across the country, GM is shifting gears to reverse. An email obtained by TechCrunch revealed that the largest automaker in the United States is cutting nearly half of the workforce currently at Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company that GM […]