A deadly, multi-car collision in San Francisco on Sunday evening marks the first time in the U.S. that a truly autonomous vehicle, with no one in the driver’s seat, has been involved in a fatal ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kim Ollerhead, a 43-year-old Scottsdale, Arizona resident and mother of two twin children. It's been edited for length and clarity. Waymo has ...

Waymo co-CEO shares video of one of its vehicles avoiding hitting a pedestrian AUSTIN, Texas - The co-CEO of Waymo shared a video on social media of one of the company's driverless vehicles ...

But in more general terms, Waymo said its software tries to predict a pedestrian’s “intent” to cross based on signals such as their forward motion and where they are looking. “We look at ...

Every stop sign, every pedestrian on a sidewalk, even the occasional tree would cause the robot to slam on the brakes hard enough to bounce my head off the headrest. Waymo's Jags, by contrast ...

Several people were injured after a crash involving multiple vehicles Sunday evening in the SoMa neighborhood, the San ...

Still, you'd expect the Waymo cab to be on the lookout for such cases. Pedestrians will often cross the street regardless of what the light indicates, as any urban drivers know. The problem, ...

For the autonomous vehicle industry, 2024 will be remembered as the year that at least one major U.S. player — Alphabet-owned Waymo — saw glimmers of mainstream adoption and made strides ...