Connected and Autonomous Vehicles:
🏛 GM’s Cruise Self-Driving Unit To Pay $1.5 Million Fine Over Crash Disclosure. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on that General Motors‘ GM 0.16%↑ self-driving car unit Cruise will pay a $1.5 million fine after it failed to disclose details of a serious October 2023 crash involving a pedestrian. Under the settlement, Cruise must submit to NHTSA a corrective action plan on how it will improve its compliance with reporting of serious incidents and face enhanced reporting requirements for at least two years.”
🚙 Uber and Avride Announce Autonomous Delivery and Mobility Partnership. “Uber UBER -0.14%↓ and Avride announced a partnership to bring Avride’s delivery robots and autonomous vehicles to Uber and Uber Eats.
The delivery partnership will launch first with sidewalk robots on Uber Eats in Austin.
😧 New Law Will Allow Cops To Cite Driverless Vehicles for Traffic Violations. “The new (California) law gives firefighters and police officers geofencing tools aimed at preventing AV cars from driving through yellow caution tape and into emergency scenes.”
🚗 Elon Musk Celebrates Winning Lawsuit Over Tesla Self-Driving Claims With Embarrassing Defense.
😦 Men Stall Waymo Driverless Car to Catcall Female Passenger Inside. “The incident shows how humans can exploit Waymo driverless cars to harass passengers.”
🤔 Is Your Car a Threat to National Security? It Can Be – Regardless of Where It’s Made. “Remote access and data transmission are an integral part of Chinese cars, but the same is true of modern cars made in most countries.”
🤞 Proposed Self-Driving Car Testing Facility at UCONN Moves Forward. “Promesa would build a simulated smart city for testing connected autonomous vehicles, including crash-test sites and driving environments with intersections, roundabouts, parking lots and ramps.”
