Waymo has announced that it's received permission from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to expand its robotaxi service across more counties in California. The company says the decision will allow it to offer rides in Sacramento and San Diego for the first time, and expand service in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. As spotted by Electrek, the CPUC's approval appears to be in response to a letter Waymo filed in January asking for approval on a safety plan so it can offer rides in the expanded service area it announced in November 2025. Waymo received feedback and even at one point had its request suspended, according to the CPUC's page, but the company's announcement suggests those issues have since been resolved and just haven't been publicly recorded yet. Big news for the Golden State -- we have received the CPUC's approval to expand our autonomous ride-hailing service across the SF Bay Area and LA, and bring our service to Sacramento and San Diego.

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We develop a framework for task-specific active next-best-view selection in 3D reconstruction from point clouds, by casting the problem in the language of Bayesian decision theory. Our framework works by (a) placing a prior distribution over the space of implicit surfaces, (b) using recently-developed stochastic surface reconstruction methods to calculate the resulting posterior distribution, then (c) using the posterior distribution to carefully reason about which view to scan next. This enables us to perform camera selection in a manner that is directly optimized for the intended use of the reconstructed data - meaning, we reduce uncertainty only in those regions that make a difference in the task at hand, as opposed to prior approaches that reduce it uniformly across space. We evaluate our method across three distinct downstream tasks: semantic classification, segmentation, and PDE-guided physics simulation. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework achieves superior task performance with fewer views compared to commonly used baselines and prior general uncertainty-reduction techniques.

Inflatable tube men depicting Elon Musk are displayed during the'Tyrant Diner' protest, calling for a boycott of Tesla, outside the Tesla Diner in LA. Inflatable tube men depicting Elon Musk are displayed during the'Tyrant Diner' protest, calling for a boycott of Tesla, outside the Tesla Diner in LA. What happened after Tesla opened a diner in Los Angeles? L ess than six months since it opened, Elon Musk's Tesla Diner has the feel of a ghost town. Gone is the Optimus robot serving popcorn, gone are the carnivore-diet-inspired "Epic Bacon" strips, gone are the hours-long, hundred-person lines wrapped around the block.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Woman gives birth in a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco. Waymo taxis navigate a street in San Francisco in 2023. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here .

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. The Audrey Irmas Pavilion, left, at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, center in background, in 2021. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Two were arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest at Wilshire Boulevard Temple that ended in confrontation.