California clears way for driverless taxis in San Francisco

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Prashanthi Raman, vice-president of global government affairs at Cruise, called the decision a “historic industry milestone” that would put the company in a position to “to compete with traditional ridehail, and challenge an unsafe, inaccessible transportation status quo”.

Despite spending across the industry on development, which McKinsey estimates at $50 billion, commercialisation of the technology has been delayed by the difficulty of teaching the cars to deal with the many rare “edge cases” that can occur on the road and which are not covered by their training data.

 

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