Cruise
“First Death on World Cruise: Passenger Found Dead on Royal Caribbean Ship”
It won’t exactly be surprising to find out that a passenger aboard Royal Caribbean’s nine-month-long world cruise died earlier this week. The news first spread as a rumor on social media – especially TikTok where the cruise has been blogged about by a number of content creators – but now, Royal Caribbean has confirmed…
GM’s Cruise Blamed Bad Internet Connection for Not Acknowledging Pedestrian Crash | Giga Gears
A new report released Thursday say GM’s Cruise leadership really did want to tell regulators about one of their self-driving taxis dragging a pedestrian 20 feet, but the internet connection sucked so they just didn’t mention it. To refresh your memory, on October 2, 2023, a woman was hit by a human-driven car while in…
Waymo’s Winning Strategy in AV Wars | Giga Gears
Driverless taxis have been in the news plenty recently, and never for good reasons. The name Cruise has been a Morning Shift mainstay, due to all the fallout from a car dragging a woman along the ground. One name, though, hasn’t come up much in recent reports: Waymo.
Driverless Cars in California Can Break Laws Without Getting Ticketed
Autonomous cars have been hitting public roads in a handful of cities around the United States, but the driverless phenomenon has raised one particularly perplexing question: How do we keep those driverless cars in check when they break traffic laws? NBC really delved into the matter this week.
The State of Self-Driving Cars in 2023: A Giga Gears Perspective
Either the world is not ready for self-driving cars, or self-driving cars are not ready for the world. After all the avoidable crashes and injuries in 2023 — some of which were fatal — I’m going to say that it’s the latter rather than the former. Autonomous vehicles are clearly not ready for use on public roads where…