self-driving-cars

A new petition filed with NHTSA alleges that Tesla's robotaxis are speeding through school zones, raising safety and regulatory concerns about the company's autonomous vehicle deployment.

A tweet claiming Tesla offers the only autonomous 'robot cars' available for purchase, linking to external coverage.

Axiom AI engineers linked OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to a 2024 Toyota Corolla's cameras and power steering, letting the general-purpose language model drive to an In-N-Out drive-thru, highlighting growing (if rudimentary) physical-world understanding in LLMs. The article also covers related efforts like Elorian AI and Scale AI's Humanity's Sixth Sense benchmark for physical scene understanding.

A Tesla owner shared that FSD Supervised intervened to prevent a T-bone collision by braking mid-intersection after another vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign, potentially saving the driver's life.

At the A2RL season opener in Imola, two driverless race cars crashed at 155 mph when Unimore's lidar and radar failed, highlighting the gap between autonomous vehicles' computational power and real-time failure handling — an event organizers argue is valuable for advancing real-world self-driving safety.

A person reports that Waymo self-driving cars are blocking all lanes of traffic, causing inconvenience and indicating a potential issue with autonomous vehicles.

Academics are hosting a workshop to brainstorm ways to prevent antisocial behaviors like sex in self-driving cars, aiming to ensure the technology is trusted and accepted by the public.

Self-driving cars like Tesla's Cybercab are prompting regulators to reconsider crash testing standards, as passengers may ride in reclined positions, affecting injury risks.

NHTSA warns autonomous vehicle developers about robotaxis interfering with first responders, citing a pattern of dangerous incidents and demanding immediate fixes.

Yann LeCun observes that despite AI progress, we still lack level-5 self-driving cars and domestic robots capable of performing like a human teenager or 10-year-old.

NVIDIA Halos is a full-stack safety system for autonomous vehicles that unifies safety elements across vehicle architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services to ensure safe development and deployment from cloud to car.

This paper studies how self-driving car systems and humans perform on visual question answering tasks across different geographic locations (Lima and New York City), finding that both humans and VLMs show similar performance regardless of location but diverge based on question type.

Uber's annual Lost and Found Index now includes robotaxis for the first time, revealing a range of strange items left behind by passengers, from dentures to a bowling ball, and detailing the return process managed by Uber's new Autonomous Solutions program.

Uber is deploying its own autonomous vehicles again under a new AV Lab project, but they will not operate as robotaxis; instead, they will collect data for Uber's robotaxi partners to help them scale their services.

Waymo's autonomous vehicles successfully navigate the Bay to Breakers event in San Francisco.