AI in Autonomous Vehicles
Why it matters: Discover how AI powers autonomous vehicles in 2026. Explore Waymo, Tesla, Baidu strategies, NVIDIA Alpamayo models, safety data, and the $5.4T market ahead.
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The new self-driving vehicle took four years from concept to execution.
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The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona today.
The post Waymo robotaxi flood recall triggers wider service pause appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Waymo’s Waymo robotaxi flood recall has turned into a bigger service disruption than a one-off software patch was meant to prevent. After another vehicle drove into floodwater, the company paused robotaxi service in five US cities and widened restrictions elsewhere, exposing a safety problem that Waymo now says still has no permanent fix. The latest trigger came in Atlanta, where an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi got stuck on a flooded street in Midtown on Wednesday evening during severe storms. That happened less than two weeks after Waymo pushed a software patch across its fleet in an effort to address the same failure mode. By 21 May, the company had halted operations in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. At the same time, it suspended all freeway rides in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami while it works on a separate issue involving construction-zone perfor
Residents in northwest Atlanta say empty Waymo robotaxis have spent weeks repeatedly circling residential streets early in the morning.
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again. Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident alarmed authorities in Beijing, prompting regulators to urge local governments to review the sector to prevent similar episodes. … Read the full story at The Verge.