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Waymo Is Setting Up A Production Facility In Detroit To Manufacture Self-Driving Cars
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 9:25am | 852In January, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) self-driving car spinoff Waymo announced that it would be opening the world's first factory for the mass production of SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles. The company scouted for a location in the state of Michigan and has finally zeroed in on...
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Google Self-Driving Cars Could Face More Legal Issues Than You Think, Barron's Says
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 9:41am | 741The first-ever accident caused by a self-driven Google (Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)) car shows it still needs some fine tuning and could even put regulators in a bind. On February 14, a Google self-driven car had pulled toward the right-hand curb to prepare for a right turn. It...
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Google Hires TrueCar President For Self-Driving Car Project; Shares Of The Pricing Website Decline
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 1:30pm | 437Shares of TrueCar Inc (NASDAQ: TRUE) lost nearly 5 percent on Monday. The decline in TrueCar's stock is attributed to reports that Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has hired Truecar's President John Krafcik. Krafcik will head Google's self-driving car project....
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Four Ways Google's Self-Driving Cars Will Change the World – Three Ways They Will Ruin Everything
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 10:58am | 1124The evolution, revolution, and inevitable destruction of transportation. Last week, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) received some bad press after one of its self-driving vehicles got into an accident. The news sounded awful; in addition to raising concerns about self-driving vehicles, it made it sound as...
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Robot Drivers Unite! Google Car Crashes, Human to Blame
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:13pm | 259Pesky human drivers are getting in the way of Steven Spielberg's Minority Report dream. Or maybe, just maybe, they will help it become a reality. Business Insider reports that Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) self-driving cars have gotten into their first accident and a human is to blame. "Safety is our...