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☆ Are taxis safer with no driver? These women think so.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Is A Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Autonomous taxis are winning over women in cities like San Francisco by offering an answer to a long-standing concern about ride-hailing apps: misbehavior by human drivers, especially men. Now, those driver safety concerns are helping to fuel the popularity of autonomous taxis — especially for women traveling alone or at night. About three-quarters of Lyft and Uber drivers are men, according to industry and academic surveys. Lyft said in a statement to NBC News that it continues to try to improve safety, including with driver background checks, driver ratings, driver education and an emergency phone line for passengers. In 2023, Lyft started a feature, Women+ Connect, that allows women or nonbinary drivers to opt in to prefer riders who are women or nonbinary, and vice versa.

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Uber announced Friday it is expanding its partnership with Alphabet’s Waymo to offer robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta beginning in early 2025. Uber riders in those cities can be matched with a driverless Waymo car for some trips, according to the companies. A Waymo spokesperson said it had no plans to partner with Uber in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Uber’s initial agreement with Waymo in Phoenix also included autonomous Uber Eats deliveries in the city. Some analysts were more hopeful for a potential Uber and Waymo expansion into San Francisco.

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☆ Tom Cruise’s payday for that Olympic stunt may surprise you
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Tom Cruise pulled off an impressive stunt at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony for which he was compensated by… thrill? “We’ll do the thing that the LA with the Hollywood sign, he’ll hand the thing off and done. About five minutes into the presentation [Tom Cruise] goes ‘I’m in. He landed in LA at 4 a.m. and filmed the scene where he pulls onto a military plane,” Wasserman recalled. Then he helicoptered from Palmdale to the Hollywood sign, filmed from 1 until 5, helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew back to London.”Mission accomplished.

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☆ The viral nine-month cruise is ending. Here’s what it was really like on board
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Preparing for the endJoe and Audrey Martucci say they are grateful for the nine-month cruise experience, but at times they found the schedule tiring. A trip of a lifetimeGen Z traveler Little Rat Brain says Antarctica, pictured here, was her world cruise highlight. Little Rat Brain, passenger on board the nine-month cruiseThe TikTok-famous passengers are now considering how to pivot their online presences. “I don’t think anything’s ever going to have the virality of the nine-month cruise,” Fletcher says. “I’m not really sure if it will ever occur again,” agrees Little Rat Brain.

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☆ Olympic flag arrives in Los Angeles, host city for 2028 Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

LOS ANGELES — The Olympic flag arrived on Monday in Los Angeles, where it will be flown in 2028 when the city hosts the next Summer Games. Hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur’s “California Love” blasted on loudspeakers on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport as the plane came to a stop. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stepped off the plane dressed in a red Team USA tracksuit, smiled broadly and waved the Olympic flag before descending airstairs to be greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass waves the Olympic flag after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on August 12, 2024. While Los Angeles has been putting in the work to host a great Games, the mayor said American organizers now really felt the “need to put our foot on the gas.”The International Olympic Committee awarded Los Angeles the right in 2017 to host the 2028 Games.

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☆ G.M. Will Restart Cruise Taxi Service
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Neal E. Boudette | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

General Motors said on Tuesday that its Cruise driverless-taxi division has restarted test operations in three Sun Belt cities, using self-driving cars with human safety drivers who will monitor the vehicles and intervene if needed. The incident prompted California to revoke Cruise’s license to operate driverless vehicles in the state. G.M.’s chief financial officer, Paul Jacobson, said Cruise is now providing autonomous ride services in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. He also said Cruise was using self-driving versions of the Chevrolet Bolt electric car and that production of a dedicated driverless cab called the Cruise Origin had been suspended indefinitely. developed the Origin — a rectangular, van-like vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals — specifically for Cruise.

Persons: Motors, ’, Paul Jacobson, Cruise Organizations: Sun, Chevrolet Bolt Locations: San Francisco, California, G.M, Dallas , Houston, Phoenix

The fleet of 500 vehicles operating in the city belongs to Apollo Go, a unit of Chinese tech giant Baidu (BIDU). There have also been complaints from residents in Wuhan about traffic jams, as driverless cars fail to respond to traffic lights. Uncertainty over the safety and reliability of driverless cars has cast a long shadow over the industry in the US. Last week, authorities in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area started handing out licenses to driverless car operators, including Apollo Go and Alibaba-backed AutoX, according to state media China Daily. California-based startup Pony.ai, backed by Toyota and Saudi Arabia, was also given the green light to test driverless vehicles in the financial hub.

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☆ Fake Tom Cruise documentary is part of a Russian influence campaign aimed at Paris Olympics, report finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | Donie O'Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The IOC has placed restrictions on Russian athletes’ participation in the Paris Olympics because of Russia’s war on Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to rule out the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine has infuriated the Russian government. Hany Farid, a digital forensic expert and professor at UC Berkley, said the video had hallmarks of being manipulate using AI. But Lee Foster, another information operations expert, expressed skepticism that the imagery in the video was made using AI. Officials at the Paris Olympics are bracing for a similar threat next month.

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☆ GM’s self-driving car unit restarts testing on public roads
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous driving technology subsidiary, will start taking its self-driving vehicles out on public roads again this week. The company had stopped testing last October following an incident in San Francisco in which a pedestrian was badly injured. Last October, a Cruise self-driving car, with no one inside, hit a pedestrian after the person had first been struck by another vehicle. After striking the pedestrian, the Cruise vehicle attempted to pull off to the side of the road to avoid causing an obstruction. About two days later, Cruise announced it was halting all operations nationwide while it investigated the incident and the company’s response to it.

Persons: CNN — Cruise, ”, Cruise, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart, Sullivan, ” Cruise, “ Organizations: CNN, Motors, Cruise, California Department of Motor Vehicles Locations: San Francisco, Phoenix , Arizona

☆ Fire extinguished on Carnival Freedom cruise ship near Bahamas after possible lightning strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Williams | Ashley Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Heath Barnes opened his book on the upper decks of the Bahamas-bound Carnival Freedom cruise ship in between bouts of rain. Cruise ship officials reported the fire broke out on the port side of the ship’s exhaust funnel around 3:15 p.m. local time, according to a news release from Carnival Cruise Line. Witnesses reported the ship may have been struck by lightning, but that has not been confirmed and the cause is still being investigated, according to the cruise line. The ship visited Freeport on Sunday, Carnival said, adding there were no operational issues with the ship’s systems. This was his 18th Carnival Cruise trip.

Persons: CNN — Heath Barnes, ”, Barnes, Carnival, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Cruise, Carnival Cruise, Port Canaveral, US Coast Guard Locations: Bahamas, Woodsboro , Maryland, Freeport, Sunday, Port

☆ Google's new AI-powered wingman highlights the challenges of using a tool that could eventually replace you
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. In today’s big story, we’re looking at Google’s new internal AI model aimed at improving worker efficiency. The big storyAI assistanceCBS Photo Archive/Getty ImagesGoogle employees are getting an AI-powered wingman in the company’s bid to improve efficiency. Goose can answer questions about Google's tech and write and edit code, according to an internal summary of the model. Tech companies have tested inventions on their own employees for years in a process known as "dogfooding," writes BI's Alistair Barr.

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General Motors' troubled robotaxi service Cruise on Tuesday endured a public lashing from a California judge who compared the company to the devious TV character Eddie Haskell for its behavior following a ghastly collision that wrecked its ambitious expansion plans. After a vehicle driven by a human struck a San Francisco pedestrian in early October, a Cruise robotaxi named “Panini” dragged the person 20 feet (6 meters) while traveling at roughly seven miles per hour (11 kilometers per hour). He also reminded Mason that Cruise could still face other repercussions beyond California, with both the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probing the robotaxi service's conduct. But Mason indicated that he is leaning toward letting the case continue through the entire hearing process rather than approving a settlement. Tuesday's hearing came less than two weeks after Cruise released a lengthy report reviewing how the company mishandled things after the pedestrian was hurt.

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Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple’s Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live up to the hype? Kevin Roose and Casey Newton tried it out to see. Then, in a high-profile congressional hearing on child safety and social media, Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, made an apology to families of victims of online child abuse. And finally, what the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company, means for the future of self-driving cars.

Persons: Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube Locations: Cruise

☆ Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Tripp Mickle | Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cruise, the driverless car subsidiary of General Motors, said in a report on Thursday that an adversarial approach taken by its top executives toward regulators had led to a cascade of events that ended with a nationwide suspension of Cruise’s fleet. The roughly 100-page report was compiled by a law firm that Cruise hired to investigate whether its executives had misled California regulators about an October crash in San Francisco in which a Cruise vehicle dragged a woman 20 feet. The investigation found that while the executives had not intentionally misled state officials, they had failed to explain key details about the incident. The report is central to Cruise’s efforts to regain the public’s trust and eventually restart its business. Cruise has been largely shut down since October, when the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended its license to operate because its vehicles were unsafe.

Persons: Cruise, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart, Kyle Vogt Organizations: General Motors, California Department of Motor Vehicles Locations: California, San Francisco, Sullivan

☆ GM’s self-driving car division is under investigation by DOJ and SEC after pedestrian dragging incident
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In meetings with regulators after the October 2 incident, Cruise officials attempted to show a full video of the impact, shot from the car. Cruise commissioned the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to investigate the incident and Cruise’s response to it. Immediately after the incident, Cruise employees were not, themselves, aware that the woman had been dragged, according to the report. Actually, the pedestrian was struck by a human-driven Nissan car first and that impact propelled her into the path of the Cruise car. The report attributed its failures in communication to a “myopic focus” in clearing Cruise of fault in the initial impact.

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☆ ‘Anything can happen.’ Inside the ‘real-life reality show’ of the nine-month cruise
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +24 min

Welcome aboard Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise, which set sail a month ago and has unexpectedly captured the internet’s imagination. It all started when Fletcher, a 39-year-old photographer from the UK, happened upon a TikTok video from a world cruise passenger. Anthony AntoineIt’s possible to join the Ultimate World Cruise at several points along the journey – there’s no requirement to sign up for the whole nine months. He understands.”So far, while his world cruise dispatches have racked up millions of views, Sebastian has yet to uncover the “hot goss” he promised. Passenger Angie Linderman, 38, also had an emotional path to boarding the world cruise.

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☆ Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ tops the box office with $21 million opening
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Beyoncé was crowned “queen of the box office” after her concert movie topped the box office in its opening weekend. “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” a documentary about the artist’s record-breaking world tour, raked in $21 million since its Friday opening, according to BoxOfficeMojo. “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” placed second, grossing $14.5 million and “Godzilla Minus One” debuted with an $11 million opening. Notably, “Renaissance” became the first film in two decades to cross the $20 million benchmark for its opening weekend following Thanksgiving, a typically sluggish one. So far this year, domestic theaters have grossed $8.26 billion, about $740 million shy of the $9 billion plus expected for the full year.

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☆ GM cuts spending on Cruise self-driving cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —General Motors announced Wednesday that it’s cutting spending at its self-driving car unit, Cruise. GM had previously announced it intends to cut back Cruise’s operations once the company restarts testing and ride hailing services. The Cruise vehicle then pulled forward, dragging the person along pavement for 20 feet. Following the suspension, Cruise announced it was pausing its public operations throughout the US and, last week, Cruise chief executive Kyle Vogt resigned. The reduction in spending relates to the broad reigning in of production and operations for Cruise.

Persons: Mary Barra, Cruise, Kyle Vogt, Dan Kan, Barra Organizations: CNN — General Motors, GM, California Department of Motor Vehicles, Cruise, Reuters Locations: United States, San Francisco

☆ GM outlines $9.3 billion in increased costs from new labor deals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The $9.3 billion in additional costs through 2028 is for deals with the UAW as well as Canadian union Unifor, and translates to about $575 per vehicle over the life of the deals. GM's new guidance reduced expected net income attributable to stockholders for 2023 to a range of $9.1 billion to $9.7 billion, compared to the previous outlook of $9.3 billion to $10.7 billion. That includes an estimated $1.1 billion EBIT-adjusted impact from the UAW strike, which lasted just over six weeks, primarily from lost production. GM had approximately 1.37 billion shares of common stock outstanding prior to the buyback program, the company said. GM will still have another $1.4 billion of capacity remaining under its share repurchase authorization for additional stock buybacks.

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General Motors is slowing the expansion of its Cruise automated driving division and significantly cutting spending at the unit after suspending operations in response to growing safety concerns about its driverless cars. The company had been planning to roll out a ride service in San Francisco and three other cities and begin testing Cruise vehicles on the streets of several other markets. It now plans to focus on only one city as it works to improve the operation of its fleet of driverless vehicles it has been testing. “We expect the pace of Cruise’s expansion to be more deliberate when operations resume, resulting in substantially lower spending in 2024 than in 2023,” G.M.’s chief executive, Mary T. Barra, said Wednesday at an investor conference. “We must rebuild trust with regulators at the local, state and federal levels, as well as with the first responders and the communities in which Cruise will operate.”Last month, California regulators suspended Cruise’s license to operate in the state after an incident in which a Cruise self-driving vehicle in San Francisco ran over a pedestrian who had been hit by another car and dragged her for 20 feet.

Persons: ”, ’, Mary T, Barra Organizations: Motors, Cruise Locations: San Francisco, California

The company now predicts full-year net income of $9.1 billion to $9.7 billion, down from its previous outlook of $9.3 billion to $10.7 billion. But GM expects to generate more cash for the full year. To get there, GM expects to cut capital spending, including a slowdown in spending on electric vehicles and at Cruise, its troubled autonomous vehicle unit. In June of last year, electric vehicle sales were growing about 90% year over year, according to Motorintelligence.com. Barra wrote that GM has a strong cash balance due to record profits from selling gas-powered vehicles and more efficient internal combustion and electric vehicle operations.

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☆ GM’s Cruise Draws Plans to Resume a Downsized Robotaxi Service
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Mike Colias | Meghan Bobrowsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Cruise self-driving vehicle. Photo: Poppy Lynch for The Wall Street JournalGeneral Motors ’ Cruise driverless-car unit plans to eventually reintroduce its robotaxi service following safety mishaps, but will narrow the focus to one city and shelve plans for the Origin, a GM-built driverless taxi. Cruise’s new co-president, Mo Elshenawy, outlined in an employee email Wednesday the plan to scale back future operations to one market, a change from an earlier strategy to deploy service in more than a dozen cities, according to people familiar with the matter.

Persons: Poppy Lynch, Mo Elshenawy Organizations: The Wall Street, GM

☆ GM’s Driverless Taxis Need to Slow Down
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Stephen Wilmot | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Cruise autonomous taxi in San Francisco, California, earlier this year. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg NewsStep on the accelerator with driverless vehicles and you scare off regulators and the public, but hit the brakes and you lose financial backers. It won’t be an easy balance for Cruise to strike as it looks for a route out of today’s crisis. The autonomous-taxi venture 80%-owned by General Motors has lost both its co-founders since Sunday, including Chief Executive Officer Kyle Vogt . The resignations, which capped a tumultuous few weeks since the suspension of Cruise’s autonomous-driving permit by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, might make it easier to convince regulators that the business can make a fresh start.

Persons: David Paul Morris, Cruise, Kyle Vogt Organizations: Bloomberg, General Motors, California Department of Motor Vehicles Locations: San Francisco , California

☆ GM’s driverless ride heads into a ditch
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Jonathan Guilford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A self-driving GM Bolt EV is seen during a media event where Cruise, GM's autonomous car unit, showed off its self-driving cars in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 28, 2017. Automotive giant GM acquired Cruise in 2016, subsequently bringing on investors including SoftBank’s (9984.T) Vision Fund, Honda Motor (7267.T) and Microsoft (MSFT.O). The question is whether GM’s autonomous division has enough momentum to recover from that loss. CONTEXT NEWSDaniel Kan, co-founder and chief product officer of General Motors’ autonomous taxi business Cruise, resigned from the company on Nov. 20, Reuters reported. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s autonomous license in the state on Oct. 24, saying that the company had “misrepresented” the safety of its technology.

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☆ GM's Cruise robo-taxi CEO resigns from company
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Kyle Vogt, chief technology officer, president & co-founder of Cruise, a Honda and General Motors self-driving car partnership, speaks on stage at the launch of the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle in San Francisco, California, U.S. January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 19 - The CEO of General Motors' robot-taxi unit Cruise, Kyle Vogt, has resigned from the company a day after apologizing to staff as the company undergoes a safety review of its U.S. fleet. "The last 10 years have been amazing, and I'm grateful to everyone who helped Cruise along the way," he wrote in the email. Cruise in recent months had touted ambitious plans to expand to additional cities offering fully autonomous taxi rides. Cruise competes with Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo in deploying autonomous vehicles and had been testing hundreds in several cities across the U.S., notably its home of San Francisco.

Persons: Kyle Vogt, Cruise, Stephen Lam, Vogt, Greg Bensinger, Kenneth Li Organizations: Honda, General Motors, Cruise, REUTERS, Reuters, California Department of Motor Vehicles, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Vogt, San Francisco

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