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Waymo CEO John Krafcik says its technology would have handled Uber self-driving incident better
•Waymo plans to roll out a service for passengers in coming months in the Phoenix area offering rides in a fully self-driving Waymo car with no driver.
Porsche is studying flying passenger vehicles but says it could take a decade before it is commercially available
•Porsche expects the cross-utility variant of its all-electric Mission E sports car to attract at least 20,000 buyers if it gets approved for production.
Uber will pay Waymo $245 million worth in shares to settle legal dispute
•Uber had planned to have self-driving cars in 20 cities by the end of 2018, 50 cities by 2019 and 150 by 2020, according to documents shown in court.
MIT researchers are developing a new depth sensor that could make self-driving cars practical
Ians •The new approach could enable accurate distance measurements through fog, which has proven to be a major obstacle to the development of self-driving cars.
US House votes to boost self-driving car deployment by exempting them from inapplicable standards
•The House voted to permit deployment of up to 100,000 of the self-driving vehicles annually over the next several years.
Google Waymo's self-driving vehicles will hit the road by end of January
Tech2 News Staff •The objective for now as specified by Waymo CEO John Krafcik, was to "learn how people of all ages, shapes, and group sizes experience our fully self-driving technology."