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While Herzberg was the first pedestrian killed by a self-driving car, [73] [74] a driver had been killed by a semi-autonomous car almost two years earlier. [75] A reporter for The Washington Post compared Herzberg's fate with that of Bridget Driscoll who, in the United Kingdom in 1896, was the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is gathering additional information on a crash between a driverless Waymo car and a cyclist in San Francisco on Tuesday resulting in ...
The passenger the Waymo car was supposed to pick up told NBC affiliate 12News last month that she was visiting Phoenix and wanted to try out the service. She said she heard the sound of the crash ...
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway ...
On January 19, 2025, the first fatal accident involving a Waymo occurred in San Francisco, when a Tesla traveling at 98 mph (158 km/h) struck multiple vehicles, including an unoccupied Waymo car. The crash resulted in the death of 27-year-old Mikhael Romanenko and his dog, with seven others injured.
A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the most destructive attack so ...
In June 2024, Waymo recalled 672 cars to make them less likely to drive into poles after a car struck a pole in May. In 2021, the robotaxi was confused by puddles and riders said the cars were ...
Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer. [1] In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016.