Published on: 2025-06-05 04:28:58
In Brief Elon Musk may have stepped away from his duties as the lead of the Department of Government Efficiency and adviser to President Trump, but he’s still active in D.C. circles. This time, he’s on the other side, lobbying lawmakers on legislation related to autonomous vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg that cited unnamed sources. Musk and others in his orbit have been calling members of Congress directly, according to Bloomberg. His efforts appear to be directed at a bill introd
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Table of Contents Zoox's Self-Driving Test Fleet Is Coming to Atlanta Zoox, the Amazon-owned self-driving company, is expanding its test fleet to Atlanta. It'll soon begin testing its autonomous technology there aboard retrofitted Toyota Highlander SUVs, before residents eventually get the chance to climb aboard a purpose-built robotaxi. Atlanta is Zoox's seventh test market. It announced its expansion to Los Angeles in April, and also operates its test fleet in the San Francisco Bay Area, Las
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Alphabet's Waymo unit has received approval to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to more parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Jose. In March, the company submitted a request to the California Public Utilities Commission to gain approval for its latest passenger safety plan, a key step in gaining permission to operate driverless vehicles across a broader area. On Monday, the proposed expansion was approved, allowing for Waymo's driverless coverage to extend from San Franci
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Table of Contents Uber and Volkswagen Will Soon Let You Hop in a Shared Self-Driving Ride Hot on the heels of their partnership announcement, Uber and Volkswagen will soon be launching shared autonomous rides, the companies said Wednesday. The initiative is slated to kick off in Los Angeles in 2026. Riders will be able to hail a fully electric, self-driving ride aboard the ID Buzz AD minivan. In April, the companies said they'll be deploying thousands of the minivans in "multiple" US cities ov
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When it comes to self driving vehicles, China went from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye. And every day, they're moving even faster than the rest of the world — and especially America. To wit: Baidu, the Beijing company behind China's largest search engine, has just announced the launch of what it calls the "world's first autonomous vehicle rental service." The program is the result of a partnership with CAR Inc — which is said to be China's largest car rental company — and it'll apparently g
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Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide plan to expand a commercial robotaxi partnership and bring the service to another 15 cities over the next five years. The expansion comes five months after the two companies launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi. As part of that expansion, Uber will increase its investment into WeRide by $100 million, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing. WeRide said it expects the cash to come through by the second half of 2025.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 13:37:00
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google's parent company, Alphabet, expand into more cities -- and countries. Waymo currently operates fully autonomous rides for the general public in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, which take place aboard the all-electric Jaguar I-Pace. It's expanding its partnership with Uber by launching in Atlanta via the ride share app later this year, and plans to be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 12:50:32
Table of Contents Waymo Expands Self-Driving Fleet with New US Manufacturing Facility Self-driving tech company Waymo announced Monday that it is significantly expanding its autonomous vehicle operations in the US with the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Mesa, Ariz. Currently, Waymo operates over 1,500 autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, Tex., completing more than 250,000 paid trips per week. With the new Mesa facility, the company plans to add 2,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 09:45:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Your usual host Kirsten has passed the reins to me, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last-minute save. Aurora had been promising to launch the U.S.’ first fully autonomous commercial trucking service in April this year, after pushing back its original 2024 debut. With just (proverbial
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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Your usual host Kirsten has passed the reins to me, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last-minute save. Aurora had been promising to launch the U.S.’ first fully autonomous commercial trucking service in April this year, after pushing back its original 2024 debut. With just (proverbial
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A passenger walks near Uber signage after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 2022. Uber said on Friday that it's partnering with Chinese self-driving startup Momenta to launch robotaxi services outside of the U.S. and China. The first deployment is scheduled to roll out in Europe in early 2026, with safety operators onboard. Uber said the goal is to combine its global ridesharing network with Momenta's technology to deliver safe and efficient
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 13:19:51
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. After years of testing and validation, Aurora says its first fully autonomous tractor-trailers are operating on public highways in Texas. The company’s Class 8 trucks are now making customer deliveries between Dallas and Houston, having already completed 1,200 miles “without a driver,” Aurora said. The clients for these ini
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Table of Contents Uber Adds May Mobility to Its Roster of Self-Driving Vehicle Partnerships Uber is teaming up with May Mobility, a developer of self-driving technology, to make thousands of autonomous vehicles available via the Uber app over the next few years. The partnership will kick off with a launch in Arlington, Texas, by the end of 2025, the companies said Thursday. "The partnership highlights both companies' shared ambition to quickly scale AV (autonomous vehicle) use in ride-hail, br
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. May Mobility is the latest autonomous vehicle operator to team up with Uber to get more passengers into its robotaxis. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company, which has mainly focused on long-term transportation contracts, says it will deploy “thousands” of autonomous vehicles on Uber’s ridehailing platform across multiple U
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Startup May Mobility plans to deploy its autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform by the end of 2025, starting in Arlington, Texas, as part of a multi-year partnership. The tie-up with Uber offers May Mobility a chance to grow beyond offering shuttles within campuses and planned communities, while Uber adds May Mobility to its growing roster of autonomous vehicle collaborators as it works to integrate self-driving tech onto its platform. For example, Uber has already begun offering Waymo robot
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From drones delivering medical supplies to digital assistants performing everyday tasks, AI-powered systems are becoming increasingly embedded in everyday life. The creators of these innovations promise transformative benefits. For some people, mainstream applications such as ChatGPT and Claude can seem like magic. But these systems are not magical, nor are they foolproof – they can and do regularly fail to work as intended. AI systems can malfunction due to technical design flaws or biased tra
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Table of Contents Waymo Is in a Growing Number of Cities. Here's What to Know About the Robotaxi Service Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google's parent company, Alphabet, expand into more cities -- and countries. In April, Waymo said it'll begin driving its vehicles on Tokyo's streets, making this the company's first international location. It's also partnering with Uber to make its robotaxi available through
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Toyota and Waymo have announced that they've entered a preliminary agreement, along with the former's mobility tech subsidiary, Woven by Toyota, Inc. To be clear, they're not in the midst of developing anything yet — they're still exploring a potential collaboration between them. Ultimately, however, the goal is to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform together, presumably for robotaxies. They're also aiming to "leverage Waymo's autonomous technology and Toyota's vehicle expertise" for futur
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What just happened? Drivers cruising along I-45 between Dallas and Houston may soon spot semi-trucks with no one behind the wheel. Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle company Aurora Innovation is launching fully driverless operations along this busy 200-mile stretch. According to Axios, the company plans to start with a single autonomous truck and gradually expand its operations. The rollout marks one of the first real-world deployments of driverless freight trucks on public roads – something l
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The US Department of Transportation issued revised rules for autonomous and partially automated vehicles on Thursday. Despite fears that the Trump administration would roll back safety regulations as it has for air and water standards, crashes involving autonomous or partially automated vehicles must still be reported to the government. And now, domestic autonomous vehicle developers will be able to benefit from exemptions previously only offered to foreign companies. "This administration under
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Table of Contents Uber and VW Team Up to Bring Robotaxis to a US City Near You Volkswagen and Uber are teaming up to deploy a fleet of thousands of all-electric, fully autonomous robotaxis. The companies said in a press release Thursday that the ID Buzz AD minivans will launch in "multiple" US markets over the next decade, starting in Los Angeles next year. Testing is expected to begin later this year, the companies said. Initially, however, the vehicles won't be fully autonomous. Human opera
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 21:09:19
Uber is expanding its robotaxi ambitions with the help of Volkswagen. The two companies are teaming up to offer autonomous rides in ID. Buzz vehicles . They plan to deploy thousands of the vehicles in multiple US markets over the next decade. Testing is slated to start later this year with human safety drivers at the wheel. All going well, Uber and VW aim to start running ID.Buzz robotaxi rides in Los Angeles in late 2026. Volkswagen AG's MOIA division is supplying its autonomous driving tech.
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Volkswagen isn’t typically mentioned in conversations about robotaxis, but the German auto giant has been quietly working on its own self-driving technology for over a decade. And now the company is ready to deploy its first autonomous vehicles on Uber’s ridehailing platform, starting with a commercial robotaxi service in L
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Volkswagen of America and Uber on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service — using autonomous electric VW ID. BUZZ vehicles — in multiple U.S. cities over the next decade. The companies expect to launch a commercial service in Los Angeles, the first city on the list, by late 2026. VW and Uber didn’t provide details on potential future markets. Initially, the service won’t be driverless. The fleet of autonomous vehicles will have human safety operators behind
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China has banned automakers in the country from marketing their vehicles with grandiose terms such as “smart driving” or “autonomous driving” following a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SU7. The car was in driver assistance mode as the vehicle approached a construction zone, but the driver took control only just before the car hit a concrete barrier. Three passengers were killed in the accident. The problem with any assistance system below Level 4—in which a vehicle can operate entirely without
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Uber is inviting customers in Atlanta to join a list if they’re interested in hailing a Waymo robotaxi as the companies prepare to launch a commercial service in the city. Uber and Waymo last September announced plans to offer a robotaxi service in Austin and Atlanta in early 2025 as part of an expanded partnership. In March, the companies started offering the “Waymo on Uber” robotaxi service in Austin, about a month after opening an “interest list” to customers. The companies said on Tuesday
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 08:00:03
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, expand into more cities -- and countries. On Wednesday, Waymo said it'll begin driving its vehicles on Tokyo's streets, making this the company's first international location. Waymo announced the expansion in December, which is happening in partnership with Japanese taxi service Nihon Kotsu and taxi app Go. Now, the US-based company is finally re
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Table of Contents Zoox Is Bringing Its Driverless Test Fleet to Los Angeles Zoox, the self-driving company owned by Amazon, is making its Los Angeles debut. On Tuesday, the company said it's expanding its test fleet to Southern California, meaning riders there will eventually be able to hail a ride in one of its pod-like robotaxis, which don't have a steering wheel, pedals or driver's seat. Los Angeles joins six other locations where Zoox is testing its self-driving technology: the San Francis
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Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles starting Tuesday – a modest, yet meaningful step as the company inches toward offering public rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco later this year. The data-collection effort marks Zoox’s entrance into its sixth city and lays the groundwork for a future robotaxi service. Unlike rival Waymo, which is already providing paid robotaxi rides in LA, Zoox is still in the early
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 08:07:00
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo -- the driverless arm of Google's parent company Alphabet -- expand into more cities. On Tuesday, the company shared it's expanding into Washington, DC, and will offer rides through its Waymo One app there starting in 2026. Waymo currently operates fully autonomous rides for the general public in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. In January, the company returned to the nation's cap
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