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Autonomous vehicle makers should expect to be punished for lives that are lost
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Until now, the Detroit company has failed to convince investors of its ambitions on electrification and self-driving
Carmaker accused of endangering lives by overstating vehicles’ autonomous capabilities
Transport department to examine 11 crashes involving electric carmaker’s driving assistance system
An evolutionary approach to building driverless cars is challenging the companies targeting a ‘moonshot’ solution to full automation
Blank-cheque company owned by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and tech entrepreneur Mark Pincus
Move by Woven Planet is part of efforts to quadruple engineering headcount in coming years
Company estimates revenue of nearly $3bn by 2025
Longtime collaborators in ‘fight to the death’ at US maker of sensors for self-driving vehicles
Alphabet-owned company raised $3.2bn only 18 months ago as competition intensifies
Japanese carmaker also has a stake in Aurora, another autonomous vehicle business
Autonomous vehicles are less friendly than human delivery workers but they do not need to be paid
Contract is the first in the world between a city and an autonomous car manufacturer
John Krafcik kept Waymo ahead of rivals while sector failed to live up to big promises
Tie-up between Aurora and Volvo is latest in flurry of partnerships as pace of robotaxi development falters
Talks ended after disagreement over branding of iPhone maker’s secretive effort
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