I have a confession to make. After taking a handful of autonomous taxi rides, I have gone from a hater to a friend of robot cars in just a few weeks, says Annalee Newitz

The driverless vehicles still can't take L.A.'s notorious highways.

I have a confession to make. After taking a handful of autonomous taxi rides, I have gone from a hater to a friend of robot cars in just a few weeks, says Annalee Newitz

Waymo wants to deploy a robotaxi service for the general public in parts of California as soon as possible.

More self-driving cabs are being launched in China at a time when people are worried about public transport.

Moovit will remain independent while its technology and the data it collects from more than 800 million users in 102 countries will be integrated into Intel's autonomous car unit Mobileye