“Waymo problems”: Man jumps into trunk of driverless taxi in LA, gets stuck and removed by police

A man jumped in the open trunk of a Waymo driverless taxi in between riders, the company confirmed. The viral video set off safety concerns.
Archaeology

Ancestors of the Blackfoot

The Blackfoot Confederacy is today made up of four bands. The traditional lands of three of them, the Blood (Kainai), Piikani, and Siksika First Nations, are on the plains of southern Alberta, Canada, ...
NBC Montana

Residents mobilize as possible gravel pit raises alarms along Blackfoot River corridor

MISSOULA, Mont. — Concerns continue to build in the Blackfoot River corridor after the recent sale of a 65-acre property along Highway 200, only a few miles east of Bonner. The land sold for 1.6 ...
IEEE

SemanticTraj: A New Approach to Interacting with Massive Taxi Trajectories

Abstract: Massive taxi trajectory data is exploited for knowledge discovery in transportation and urban planning. Existing tools typically require users to select and brush geospatial regions on a map ...
The New York Times

Self-Driving Taxis Are Catching On. Are You Ready?

With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons. Tech Fix With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox ...