Waymo – California Globe

KitKat’s Untimely Death vs San Francisco’s 500 Overdoses Citywide

November 7, 2025 9:58 amNovember 7, 2025 9:58 am

In San Francisco’s Mission District, a tabby cat named KitKat met its demise last week, struck by a Waymo autonomous vehicle pulling away from a curb. Autonomous vehicles aren’t flawless; their sensors and algorithms could (rarely) falter in the chaos...

California Transit Agencies Cost Taxpayers $10 Billion Per Year – And They Want More

October 14, 2025 7:00 amOctober 14, 2025 8:38 am

By Marc Joffe and Athan Joshi California transit agencies required over $10 billion of taxpayer funds to provide service and maintain their capital plant in Fiscal Year 2023. This is the key finding of our analysis of data from 85...

San Francisco Cruise Robotaxi Folds Following $10 Billion In Losses

December 11, 2024 2:45 amDecember 11, 2024 2:46 am

General Motors, the parent company of the San Francisco-based robotaxi firm Cruise, announced on Tuesday that Cruise would be folding following $10 billion in losses and a disastrous rollout attempt in San Francisco over the last few years. In 2022...

CPUC Announces Expansion of Paid Robotaxis in Bay Area & LA

March 2, 2024 6:42 amMarch 2, 2024 6:43 am

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced on Friday that Waymo, a Google-backed self-driving car service, would be able to expand their paid car service from just San Francisco into several other cities on the Peninsula, highways in San Francisco,...

Teamsters Hold LA Rally In Favor Of Local Robotaxi Regulation Bill

February 2, 2024 5:04 pmFebruary 2, 2024 5:04 pm

The Teamsters Union began their campaign in favor of a bill that would allow city and county governments to impose limits and greater regulations on robotaxi services over state organizations on Friday, holding a rally outside of the Los Angeles...

City Of San Francisco Sues CPUC Over August 2023 Robotaxi Expansion Decision

January 26, 2024 12:31 pmJanuary 26, 2024 12:33 pm

The City of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday, asking them to review their decision made in August of last year to great expand robotaxi companies within the city. In 2022 and most...

Local Robotaxi Regulation Bill Introduced In The Senate

January 10, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 10, 2024 2:31 am

A new bill that would allow city and county governments to impose limits and greater regulations on robotaxi services over state organizations was introduced in the Senate on Tuesday with the backing of the Teamsters union. For the last few...