Google and a number of automakers are spearheading the movement to get automated vehicles on America’s roads. Self-driving cars are street legal in three states, and Google’s fleet has collectively logged over 300,000 miles of time on the road. However, there are several obstacles in the path of widespread adoption, with legal and moral opposition to the concept coming from all corners. Follow this StoryStream to track the technology’s progress as it transitions from experimental testing to consumer reality that could save thousands of lives.

• The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles
• Cruise’s robotaxi service will shut down as GM pulls its funding
• Waymo released a software update to solve its San Francisco “honkfest.”
• A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors
• Amazon will begin testing robotaxis in Austin and Miami too.
• Waymo’s robotaxis are under investigation for crashes and traffic law violations
• In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real
• Orange cones are robot kryptonite.
• People are afraid of self-driving cars — can the industry change that?
• Uber Eats is now delivering burritos via Waymo in Phoenix.
• The Zoox come out at night.
• Waymo opens up in LA.
• Cruise finally has a chief safety officer.
• Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
• GM’s big bet on driverless cars turns sour
• TFW your Uber driver is an empty seat.
• How will driverless cars ‘talk’ to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas
• Robotaxis in the Bayou City.
• What about driver’s ed for driverless cars?
• Waymo’s robotaxis are now available to tens of thousands of people across all of San Francisco
• California governor vetoes a bill requiring humans in autonomous big rigs
• Cruise unveils a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi, with plans to launch in 2024
• Driverless buses are tooling around San Francisco’s Treasure Island in a test for the next few months.
• We knew Tesla didn’t fix a flaw in Autopilot, and now we have their engineers on record admitting it.
• Robotaxis are driving on thin ice
• Waymo says Austin, Texas, will be its next robotaxi city
• Driverless car legislation is still stuck in neutral in the US
• On the cusp of 24/7 service, robotaxis face pleas and protest in San Francisco
• San Francisco residents are disabling robotaxis with traffic cones.
• VW will test its autonomous ID Buzz in the US starting this month
• Uber teams up with Waymo to add robotaxis to its app
• Waymo barreling ahead with bigger robotaxi coverage in San Francisco and Phoenix
• Amazon’s weird toaster-shaped robotaxi hits the road in a ‘first’ for the company
• Despite mounting opposition, the Bay Area’s robotaxis keep racking up the miles
• San Francisco wants to slow robotaxi rollout over blocked traffic and false 911 calls
• Waymo’s driverless robotaxis are now doing airport trips in Phoenix
• Robotaxis are now available to hail on the Uber app in Las Vegas
• Waymo’s new robotaxi is an all-electric people mover with no steering wheel
• Waymo’s fully driverless minivans are already putting people to sleep
• Intel is working with Waymo to build fully self-driving cars
• Lyft teams up with NuTonomy to put ‘thousands’ of self-driving cars on the road
• Google’s self-driving cars just got way better at driving themselves
• Uber teams up with Mercedes-Benz’s parent company on self-driving cars
• Watch GM’s self-driving car navigate the streets of San Francisco
• Uber’s self-driving truck company just completed its first shipment: 50,000 cans of Budweiser
• Self-driving cars hit the road for first public test in the UK
• Digital mapping firm Here wants to transform Iowa highway into a self-driving utopia
• Images of Google’s first self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans surface
• Didi, the ride-hail company that beat Uber in China, is working on self-driving cars
• Self-driving cars will have to pry the steering wheel from our cold, dead hands, poll says
• Google’s ‘worst’ self-driving accident was still a human’s fault
• Singapore’s self-driving cars can now be hailed with a smartphone
• Self-driving car makers don’t sound super excited to share data with the federal government
• New rules of the road for self-driving cars have just been released
• Lyft’s president says ‘majority’ of rides will be in self-driving cars by 2021
• I rode this cute self-driving bus that’s coming to Japan next month
• Meet the self-driving car industry’s most important lobbyist
• Google, Ford, and Uber just created a giant lobbying group for self-driving cars
• Voices clash at first public hearing on self-driving cars
• Volvo is sending 100 self-driving cars to China for testing
• Amazon and Microsoft are very close to investing in mapping tech for self-driving cars
• Amazon and Microsoft will reportedly invest in Here, the self-driving car mapping unit
• Google is testing self-driving cars in a third city: Kirkland, WA
• Samsung and Baidu are getting into self-driving cars
• Google’s self-driving car is hitting public roads this summer
• Elon Musk: cars you can drive will eventually be outlawed
• Volvo will run a public test of self-driving cars with 100 real people in 2017
• Uber just announced its own self-driving car project
• Elon Musk says self-driving car technology still has another 5 to 6 years to go
• GM plans to sell cars with ‘highly automated driving technology’ in two years’ time
• For $10,000, your car can drive itself
• Toyota is investigating cars that hover above the road
• Google’s self-driving car isn’t a car, it’s the future
• Google made a self-driving car, and it doesn’t have a steering wheel
• California DMV adopts new rules for self-driving car tests
• I took a ride in Google’s self-driving car
• Behind the wheel: a look inside Google’s self-driving cars
• US military, Lockheed deem driverless convoy test a success
• Volvo speeds ahead with autonomous cars on Swedish roads by 2017
• The long road to Google’s self-driving car
• Elon Musk says Tesla’s self-driving cars will still require a human driver
• Tesla is looking for engineers to develop self-driving cars
• Congressman hitches a ride in a stealthy self-driving Cadillac
• Self-driving cars and ocean colonies: revisit Isaac Asimov’s vision of 2014
• Nissan says it will bring multiple self-driving cars to market by 2020
• Google is reportedly designing its own self-driving car
• UK to test self-driving cars on public roads this year
• NHTSA calls on states to legalize self-driving car testing
• Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update)
• Michigan governor urges ‘automotive capital of the world’ to welcome self-driving cars
• Hitachi’s ROPITS is the self-driving go-kart of the future
• Nissan shifts self-driving car R&D to Silicon Valley
• Inexpensive alternative to Google’s self-driving cars uses lasers and cameras to navigate
• Google expects its self-driving cars to be ready in three to five years
• At CES, self-driving cars dance with believers, skeptics, and governments
• The Batmobile is real: Audi’s self-driving car picks you up on command
• Audi working on making self-driving cars look like normal cars
• Toyota and Lexus show off autonomous — but not self-driving — car at CES
• Lexus’s ‘advanced active safety research vehicle’ can drive itself, but don’t call it a self-driving car
• Toyota to show off self-driving car at CES
• German auto supplier receives automated car license from Nevada, following Google
• Self-driving cars can navigate the road, but can they navigate the law?
• Auto designers imagine the self-driving cars and drones of future police work
• Google hires NHTSA deputy director to oversee safety of self-driving cars
• Self-driving cars hold ‘great promise’ for saving thousands of lives, says US government official
• Re-thinking car design in the age of self-driving vehicles
• Self-driving cars allowed on California roads under new law
• California Assembly and Senate pass safety regulations for self-driving cars
• Florida political attack ad takes issue with self-driving vehicles
• Google’s self-driving cars have logged more than 300,000 miles on the road
• Japan aims for autonomous cars in the next 10 years
• Autonomous three-car caravan completes 125-mile public road test
• California Senate passes safety requirements for self-driving cars
• Nevada DMV grants first self-driving car testing license to Google
• Easier-to-understand technology could keep elderly drivers on the road longer
• One in five drivers would spend $3,000 to add self-driving to their next car
• Google discusses partnerships with carmakers for self driving system
• Google puts a blind man behind the wheel of its self-driving car (video)
• Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
• Building tomorrow’s car today: the self-driving vehicle nears the mainstream

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