#Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

#autonomousvehicles

https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-pulled-cars-freeway-fled-police

Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

“This is it. We’re dead. We’re going to die right here in the Waymo.”

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, “You couldn’t pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere.”

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about “never having to drive again.”

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

Weekly output: Pope Leo XIV on AI, American Airlines + Starlink, Taara photonics, New Glenn explosion, way less Waymo

I did not see Project Hail Mary as soon as possible, but I did see it tonight and am very glad that I did, If you haven’t watched that movie, please do so while it’s still available on a big screen at a theater near you.

Patreon readers got an extra post Saturday inspired by a different sort of larger-than-life multimedia experience, seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nats Park Wednesday: a recap of the few years when I had “concert reviewer” as a low-paying, in-house side hustle at the Washington Post.

5/25/2026: Pope Leo XIV: Unchecked AI Development Risks Building a New Tower of Babel, PCMag

I spent much of Monday morning reading the pope’s encyclical about AI, then spent much of the afternoon writing a post unpacking that lengthy document for PCMag readers. Yes, Monday was a holiday, but as somebody brought up Catholic who then went to a Jesuit university, I felt like I had to do this work.

5/26/2026: American Airlines Will Switch to Starlink for Now, But Only on Airbus Narrowbodies, PCMag

American’s press release about this coming upgrade to the WiFi on part of its fleet left multiple questions unanswered, so I was glad that a publicist for AA fielded my questions as quickly as she did.

5/29/2026: Taara CEO: Our free-space optics links go where fiber won’t, Light Reading

I sat down with Mahesh Krishnaswamy, founder and CEO of this Alphabet moonshot offshoot, at the start of a busy day at Web Summit Vancouver two weeks ago. A small part of that conversation surfaced in a piece I did for PCMag about photonics that itself began with a trip to San Jose for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference there in mid April (with NTT covering my travel costs), but the rest had to wait for this piece. That, in turn,  required me to have some downtime in which to write it, and as you may have noticed May was another ridiculous month for travel.

5/29/2026: Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes Spectacularly During Ground Test, PCMag

This is an outright disaster, and not just for Blue–if you want to see SpaceX get some competition for satellite-to-phone data, fast inflight WiFi and a return of American astronauts to the Moon’s surface, New Glenn would have been at least helpful if not outright essential. Blue not only has to figure out what went wrong with its heavy-lift rocket and fix that, it also has to either rebuild the launch complex mostly destroyed by this explosion or speed up construction of the second pad it has planned.

5/29/2026: Waymo Halts Freeway Operations, Stops Service in Some Cities Without Clearly Communicating What’s Up, PCMag

I had missed covering Waymo ending freeway service because that happened when I was flying home from Google I/O, but after seeing how badly that company had informed customers about that cutback in service and its suspensions of all service in some cities, I realized I had a broader piece to write.

📝 Waymoの「道路診断プロジェクト」が示す、自動運転車のセンサーから社会インフラまでの価値転換

自動運転タクシーの走行データを社会インフラ改善に活用するWaymoの新戦略。単なる移動サービスから「都市データプラットフォーム」への進化が始まる。

🔗 https://techscope365.com/763/

#自動運転 #Waymo #Waze #AI #テクノロジー

Waymo is outpacing Tesla in Texas with 577 registered robotaxis compared to Tesla's 42 as of May. The slow rollout of Tesla's autonomous vehicle service has raised concerns among investors about the company's future in the competitive robotaxi market. #tesla #waymo

https://wesearch.press/s/waymo-is-fleetmogging-tesla-in-texas-722a6542?utm_source=social&utm_medium=auto&utm_campaign=mastodon

🚕 Nei robotaxi, i numeri parlano chiaro: Waymo corre avanti, Tesla insegue. La sfida ora è trasformare promesse in chilometri reali. #Robotaxi #Waymo

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/automotive/waymo-texas-registrazioni-robotaxi-tesla

🚨 NEWS: Waymo Domina le Registrazioni di Veicoli Autonomi in Texas mentre Tesla Resta Indietro

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Il panorama dei veicoli a guida autonoma negli Stati Uniti sta vivendo una fase di chiara demarcazione, con nuovi dati provenienti dal Texas che offrono una prospettiva senza prece...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/waymo-domina-le-registrazioni-di-veicoli-autonomi-in-texas-mentre-tesla-resta-indietro

#guidaAutonoma #robotaxi #tesla #texas #waymo