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A startup has become the first new company to launch autonomous car(s) (archive) following Uber's deadly accident in March:
On Monday, an orange and blue car with the words "Self-Driving Vehicle" prominently displayed on both sides drove itself through the streets of this rapidly growing city north of Dallas, navigating across four lanes of traffic and around a traffic circle.
The car, operated by the Silicon Valley start-up Drive.ai, will eventually become part of a fleet of autonomous taxis that will ferry locals along a predetermined route between the Dallas Cowboys facility in Frisco and two other office, retail and apartment complexes.
While other companies have tested self-driving cars for years and some are in the early stages of offering a taxi service, Drive.ai's autonomous vehicle debut on Monday was still notable. It was the first new rollout of autonomous cars in the United States since a pedestrian died in Arizona in March after a self-driving car operated by Uber hit her.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 09 2018, @01:49AM (1 child)
Several other companies paused/halted their efforts back in March. Uber fucked it up for everybody (briefly).
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday May 10 2018, @06:43PM
Except for Waymo, who have deployed fully autonomous cars without drivers serving public riders. I don't know how this new startup is news when it's already clear Waymo won. Unless this startup has some revolutionary breakthrough, there's no way it can match the reported amount of resources that Waymo has invested to actually deploy self-driving cars.
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