Autonomous Driving

Waymo Sends Human Drivers Into Toronto First, Chasing Riders by 2028

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Waymo Sends Human Drivers Into Toronto First, Chasing Riders by 2028

Waymo is heading north. The Alphabet-owned autonomous driving unit confirmed on 16 October that its vehicles will start appearing on the streets of Toronto in the coming days — but not as robotaxis. The first cars will be driven manually, sweeping the city to build high-definition maps of its road network, as the company works … Read more

DrivingBench: 8 of 11 AI Agent Runs Crashed Before Clearing the First Corner

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DrivingBench: 8 of 11 AI Agent Runs Crashed Before Clearing the First Corner

Eight of eleven runs ended in a collision before the vehicle had cleared its opening corner. That is the headline result from DrivingBench, an experiment built by researchers Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns and Tobias Gessler to establish whether today’s leading general-purpose AI agents are ready for tasks in the physical world. The testbed was a … Read more