Uber’s Drive to Become the Kleenex of Robotaxis
“To them, it doesn’t really matter who ultimately succeeds,” says Sam Abuelsamid, who writes about the self-driving-vehicle industry and is the vice president of marketing at Telemetry, a…
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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe
The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have…
The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now
Are the kids all right? They’re in Waymos, at least, now that the self-driving car company has begun to allow Arizona teenagers in the Phoenix area to ride by themselves through special…
GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing
Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of…
This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters
“This is a demo or test using safety drivers—it’s not an deployment,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous vehicles. “Tesla…
Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question
Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel like a dirty secret. Shouldn’t an autonomous…
Germany to push for autonomous vehicles in public transport, freight
The German government approved on Wednesday a strategy paper encouraging the use of autonomous vehicles for public transportation and goods delivery. The aim is to create the world's…
In Wuhan, driverless taxis offer a peek into the future of intracity transport in China
The city of Wuhan, on the banks of China's Yangtze River, gained global notoriety in December 2019 as the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Now the capital of central Hubei province…