The Truth About Cars

JULY 23, 2024

The Origin project began in 2020 with a partnership between GM and Honda, but the effort lost steam, and the automaker cut production in November 2023 after its Bolt EV autonomous taxis ran into several issues during testing. Images: GM, Shutterstock] Become a TTAC insider.

Taxi 57

Taxi GM Dallas Phoenix 57

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. In addition to the city fleets, high mileage and high visibility fleets are included, such as Coca-Cola, Sysco, Frito Lay, school districts, and taxis. Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.’s

Alternative Fuels 236

Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

Teslarati

APRIL 9, 2024

The General Motors (GM) self-driving unit Cruise has announced plans to resume driver-operated vehicle testing in Arizona, after an accident with one of its driverless taxis in October left a pedestrian severely injured. “This will help inform where we ultimately will resume driverless operations,” Cruise added.

GM 82

GM Phoenix Arizona Taxi 82

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On Tuesday, Waymo announced in a press release that its Waymo One self-driving taxi service is now open to anyone in LA, offering its ride-hailing services 24 hours a day. ” The company also announced that it will be the Official Ride-Hail Partner of the LA Auto Show running from November 22 to December 1.

Los Angeles 81

Los Angeles San Francisco Phoenix Taxi 81

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Two autonomous taxis, from Pony.ai So far, around three in every 100 taxis there are robotaxis, developed by Baidu s autonomous car division, Apollo Go. Because a robotaxi doesnt contend with driver fatigue, the number of rides it can run per day can be greater than that of a nonautomated taxi. What about the economics?

San Francisco 138

San Francisco Cars Taxi China 138

The Truth About Cars

JULY 26, 2024

Reports have also claimed that it also intends on charging fares as part of an autonomous taxi service due sometime in 2025. The company has been running its cars in Phoenix since April and added Dallas and Houston in recent months.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Dallas GM Phoenix 104

Baua Electric

AUGUST 6, 2024

Waymo is adding to its driverless taxi service areas in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is currently testing in Austin in advance of offering rides to the public soon. The cars currently only work in certain geofenced areas that have been well-mapped by Waymo, in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Austin 52

Austin San Francisco Los Angeles Phoenix 52

The Truth About Cars

JULY 24, 2024

CEO Sundar Pichai said on the earnings call that Waymo provides 50,000 weekly paid trips, primarily in San Francisco and Phoenix. Meanwhile, Waymo seems focused on building up autonomous technologies so they can be integrated into pre-existing models to be used more like traditional taxis. But the unit’s losses widened to $1.13

San Francisco 103

San Francisco Phoenix Arizona Taxi 103

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Waymo has opened up its driverless taxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, without need for an invite code or waitlist, but it still remains with the same service area it had before and doesn’t yet cover the whole area around LA. The company recently announced it will add Hyundai Ioniq 5s to its fleet in the future.

Los Angeles 52

Los Angeles San Francisco Taxi Phoenix 52

Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Waymo Credit: Waymo In Arizona, Waymo recently expanded its driverless testing operations to include highways around Phoenix , expected to make ride times significantly shorter for passengers. In both states, the company operates Jaguar I-Pace vehicles equipped with several sensors to perform driverless rides.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Los Angeles California Phoenix 84

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

RELATED: General Motors’ Cruise taxis to expand to Phoenix and Austin. The same survey showed 24 percent of consumers believed fully-autonomous vehicles are available to buy and drive right now, which simply is not true.

Buy 83

Buy Cars Phoenix Taxi 83

Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2024

A fleet of 500 taxis navigated by computers, often with no safety drivers in them for backup, buzz around. The company that operates them, tech giant Baidu, said last month that it would add another 1,000 of the so-called robot taxis in Wuhan. Cruise has resumed limited testing in Phoenix. Surveys by J.D.

China 52

China Auto Taxi San Francisco 52

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Waymo announced that it is partnering with Japanese taxi company Nihon Kotsu for the initial phase, where human drivers will operate Waymos cars so that the software can map the city. In early 2025, the company will begin testing its Jaguar I-PACE vehicles in Tokyo, with plans to stay in the region for the foreseeable future.

San Francisco 52

San Francisco Los Angeles Taxi Solar 52

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Today, we have a fully driverless taxi services in San Francisco and Phoenix. This panel will address the next breakthroughs in field robotics, define future challenges and explore ways that DARPA can accelerate their development. DARPA ] Tech Panel: In 2004, DARPA launched interest in self-driving vehicles with a Grand Challenge.

San Francisco 98

San Francisco Mercury Phoenix 2001 98

Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

The moves are modest compared with Alphabet’s Waymo, which this week announced a plan to begin a taxi service in Los Angeles, on top of the existing markets of San Francisco and Phoenix, where it already ferries passengers in its retrofitted autonomous Jaguars.

Las Vegas 52

Las Vegas San Francisco Auto Los Angeles 52

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Municipal transit buses in Indianapolis, Martha’s Vineyard, Oregon, and elsewhere.    OEM integrations with Phoenix Motor, MAFI, OrangeEV, BYD, Gillig, Volvo and others, which provide integrated InductEV technology off the vehicle production line.   A partnership with Volvo for wirelessly charged taxi fleets in Gothenburg and Oslo.

Charging 52

Charging Indianapolis New Jersey Phoenix 52

Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 22, 2021

While San Francisco was one of Waymo’s early testing sites, it is lagging behind the Phoenix metropolitan region in terms of autonomous ride-hailing commercialization. Because in 2017, Waymo began providing rides to Phoenix residents and though the company didn’t make considerable money, the program is said to be a success.

San Francisco 52

San Francisco Phoenix Lithium Ion Minivan 52

Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

In total, the area covers approximately 63 square miles – a larger area than Waymo’s 47mi² San Francisco service area, but much smaller than the 180mi² area that Waymo operates in in Phoenix. Waymo says that it wants to “scale its operations over time,” and cover a larger area than this, but doesn’t give a timeline for doing so.

Austin 52

Austin Los Angeles San Francisco Phoenix 52

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 1, 0002

This opens the door to allow Waymo to begin charging for autonomous taxi services, something Cruise was already doing there, and accelerate their respective AV programs within California.& billion in June 2021, and in 2022, the company expanded public service to Phoenix from San Francisco. Waymo completed an investment round of $2.5

San Francisco 52

San Francisco California Grant Los Angeles 52

Baua Electric

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Waymo’s Hyundai Ioniq 5 self-driving taxi Level 5 : Fully autonomous robotaxis The pinnacle of self-driving cars takes the driver out of the equation entirely. In July, GM canceled its Cruise Origin robotaxi service that had logged the most miles of any robotaxi service yet in limited public trials in Phoenix and San Francisco.

Cars 52

Cars GM San Francisco Chrysler 52

Charged EVs

JULY 19, 2023

It seemed a shame not to let people see them together, so on the March day we drove the Ioniq 6 at a media preview in Phoenix, we rented a Model 3 so we could photograph the pair side by side. The two cars aren’t dimensionally identical, but they’re the only two battery-electric sedans on offer below $90,000 or so.

Hyundai 52

Hyundai Tesla Miles Kia 52