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...That was followed by new safety guidelines in December for the use of autonomous vehicles in public transport....
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...San Francisco this year became the first US city to allow driverless taxis to transport passengers without restrictions and without the supervision of humans behind the wheel....
...The developments come only months after San Francisco became the first US city in which driverless taxis were free to transport passengers without restrictions and without the supervision of humans behind...
...Rates charged by General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi service in San Francisco are comparable to rideshare services from the likes of Uber....
...The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees street transport, has called for the rollout to slow down....
...Motor car crashes have instead become so common that they are no longer news....
...The test scheme was launched by Cruise, an autonomous vehicle business that is majority owned by General Motors. Like Uber, it has an app that you can use to call a car to meet you....
...Since Google launched its self-driving car project in 2009, it has been leading the way towards a new age of autonomous transport that could reshape cities and, one day, deal a death blow to car ownership...
...So does Musk think the stated goal he set for Tesla more than 15 years ago, to lead a transport revolution, has finally been achieved?...
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...The documents, filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles in California, which grants permits for autonomous testing in the state, also reveal patchy disclosure about training programmes — prompting calls...
...Computer-controlled services would replace public transport as well as conventional taxis. One day might they might even venture on to the Périphérique....
...Ford is experimenting with autonomous postal services, while General Motors through its Cruise unit is also planning to launch a public robo-taxi service....
...As part of this, it also wants to launch its own ride-hailing fleet, push into business areas such as transport services and connect 90 per cent of its vehicles to the internet within six years....
...Elsewhere on Monday, the board of Mitsubishi Motors voted unanimously to dismiss Ghosn as its chairman, while over at Renault, the French are largely still in the dark....
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...Motors powered by electricity would produce magnetic fields to propel capsules along tracks, all encased within subterranean pipelines....
...Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket – like many other start-up operators – not only uses old Soviet designs but actual rocket motors built in the 1960s for the Soviet Union’s abandoned moon landing programme...
...“When I founded SpaceX, development in space transport and rocket technology had essentially frozen,” says Musk....
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