Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company backed by General Motors, will begin testing its cars in Seattle on Monday, the company told GeekWire. The cars will have humans in them — for… Read More
Fully autonomous vehicles are closer to commonplace than you might expect, as cars and big rigs gain the ability to operate safely on our streets and highways. As one of… Read More
The agenda is set, the speakers are ready, and we’re looking forward to seeing hundreds of you for the GeekWire Summit this Thursday and Friday in Seattle and online. If… Read More
Winter is coming, and Waymo is here for it. Specifically, the autonomous driving company is in Bellevue, Wash., where it has started testing the fifth generation of its Waymo Driver… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Looking out the window of the Boeing 737 this week after landing at Pittsburgh International Airport, gateway to one of the world’s top robotics hubs, it was hard… Read More
Everyone is closely monitoring the implications of remote work as we emerge from the pandemic, so it’s no surprise that one of the most widely read stories on GeekWire this… Read More
Zoox, the robotaxi company acquired by Amazon last year, will start testing its autonomous driving technology in Seattle for the first time this month, after focusing on Las Vegas and… Read More
Five years ago, budding 11-year-old Seattle scientist Rebecca Yeung was launching a homemade spacecraft high above Earth. The exploits with her sister gained the pair widespread publicity and a chance… Read More
The hype cycle for autonomous vehicles may have slowed down after the March 2018 fatal accident involving a self-driving Uber car, but for AV booster Bruce Agnew, the Pacific Northwest… Read More
Uber is reportedly eyeing Seattle startup Mighty AI as an acquisition target. Three anonymous sources tell The Information that Uber held “recent talks” to buy Mighty AI, which develops training… Read More
Eric Wengreen and Wes Schwie are engineers and entrepreneurs who were searching for an opportunity to build something meaningful after developing and scaling a line of electronics mounting devices at… Read More
Tesla’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, laid out a vision for a huge fleet of self-driving electric vehicles that owners could share with friends or other riders, with Tesla getting a… Read More
For more than a year, transportation wonks and city officials have been working to turn Bellevue, Wash., into a smart mobility hub. But news that Amazon plans to relocate a… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as metamaterials to high-flying realms ranging from satellite communications to drone-sized… Read More
The Seattle “tech talk” sponsored this week by GM’s autonomous-vehicle subsidiary, Cruise Automation, had all the hallmarks of a recruiting event for software engineers, plus an extra twist: the self-driving… Read More
General Motors has shuffled its executive team to put its president, Dan Ammann, into the CEO spot at its autonomous-vehicle subsidiary, Cruise Automation. Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt will move out… Read More
Cruise Automation, General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle subsidiary, says it’s getting ready to open up an office in the Seattle area that could employ as many as 200 engineers within a year.… Read More
This year, the Seattle International Auto Show will feature more than 700 cars, including many that are not available for purchase yet, like the Jaguar I-PACE and the 2019 Mazda… Read More
When we envision our self-driving future, cars with built-in entertainment systems buzz us to and from work, while flying Ubers drop off passengers nearby. But the reality of the first… Read More
A furtive autonomous vehicle startup out of Bend, Ore. has raised $8 million from undisclosed investors. Azevtec confirmed the investment to GeekWire but provided few additional details because the company is operating… Read More
Police in Tempe, Ariz., have determined in a new report that the safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber was distracted by a TV show she was streaming… Read More
Uber executives are providing an update on their plans to put flying cars in the air by 2020, with commercial rides beginning in 2023, but the most pointed comments from… Read More
The cost of owning a car could be more than traveling exclusively with rideshare services in Seattle and Denver by 2027, according to a new study by QuoteWizard. Two commuters… Read More
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he is personally overseeing a “top-to-bottom” audit of the company’s safety procedures for self-driving cars, after a vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona… Read More
Aurora, a newcomer in the race to develop self-driving vehicles, put a little fuel in the tank today as the company raised $90 million in series A financing from Greylock… Read More
Autonomous driving technology is improving rapidly but self-driving cars still struggle in poor weather conditions. SEEVA sees that as a big opportunity. The startup’s patented washer fluid heating system and… Read More
Back in June, Pittsburgh and Paris were unwittingly connected by a comment from President Donald Trump defending his decision to pull out of the international Paris agreement on climate change.… Read More
The last generation of kids who will need to learn to drive has already been born, as far as Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is concerned. He’s incredibly bullish on self-driving… Read More
Seattle is an innovation hub with transportation pain points aching to be solved. For those reasons, the city seems like the obvious choice to pioneer self-driving cars in Washington now that… Read More
