A collision involving seven vehicles, including a Waymo autonomous vehicle, closed streets Sunday night in San Francisco's South of Market and killed one person, officials said. Officers from the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call about a crash in the area of 6th and Harrison streets at around 6:08 p.

The vehicles Waymo receives from Geely, it says, are “base vehicles,” stripped of telematics systems and any other technology that would allow the vehicle to communicate with, or send data back to, its manufacturer. Only “authorized personnel” install Waymo's self-driving technology into the cars after they’re delivered to the United States.

A high-tech, low-intelligence thief tried to escape in a self-driving Waymo car after robbing a Los Angeles grocery store Monday night — only to be foiled when cops used its technology to

A month ago, a video circulated around social media of a Waymo robotaxi stuck in a roundabout loop — an isolated incident with no passengers in the

Up to the start of 2024, Google’s self-driv­ing project Waymo had fer­ried pub­lic pas­sen­gers for 1mn trips since the ini­ti­at­ive began in 2009, not 1mn miles

A Waymo customer said his self-driving taxi drove him around in eight circles, almost making him late for his flight. A video shows Waymo’s customer service wasn’t able to do much to stop the vehicle, raising concerns about self-driving safety. If you’ve ever worried about a robotaxi going rogue, one Waymo customer has lived your worst nightmare.

For the autonomous vehicle-obsessed, the Waymo-Zeekr robotaxi is nothing new. In 2021, Waymo and Zeekr announced a partnership. Waymo first showed a

But for the regulations to push self-driving vehicles forward, safety must be prioritized, the co-CEO said. She hopes that the Trump administration puts risk mitigation at the forefront of its proposed national regulatory framework.

LOS ANGELES - A robbery suspect who tried to get away in a Waymo car was arrested by police Monday night. It happened in Mid-City around 8:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police said the suspect got into an altercation with a grocery store security guard then got into a Waymo vehicle.

For the blind and visually impaired community, getting around by vehicle can be a challenge. Public transportation can help, but more and more people are choosing Waymo and other autonomous vehicles.

A deadly, multi-car collision in San Francisco on Sunday evening marks the first time in the U.S. that a truly autonomous vehicle, with no one in the driver’s seat, has been involved in a fatal collision,