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It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have […]
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab, which lacks a steering wheel and pedals, meets vehicle safety standards.
Elon Musk's gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle's lack of traditional features - many of which are required by law. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was opening an audit query (AQ) into the Tesla Cybercab "to examine the process and […]
At a private, closed-door event in Austin, Texas today, Tesla officially launched its gilded car of the future. It's a huge milestone for Elon Musk, who has been hyping the imminent arrival of driverless cars for years and has bet the future of his company on AI, autonomous vehicles, and humanoid robots. It was an […]
The company published a form on its website Thursday soliciting info from people who are interested in "Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing."
The company is about to formally launch the gold two-seater, with no steering wheel or pedals -- a move that could change Tesla forever.
Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides.
Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]
Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing door sporting, steering wheel-free two-seaters as the future of Tesla's autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Public rides are here, and as […]
The electric-auto maker will officially debut its steering-wheel-free robotaxi on Thursday. But building the vehicle is the easy part.
Waymo will begin inviting riders on a rolling basis and slowly ramp up access in the three cities, following its usual commercial playbook.
Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software. In fact, the features that car owners appreciate the most happen to be the ones they barely notice, according to the latest tech survey from JD Power. The consumer research firm surveyed 68,084 […]
As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk's approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, doesn't specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled "10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million […]
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in […]
China's intelligent driving is moving fast from highway Navigate on Autopilot (NOA) into the far harder world of urban NOA. The first leap moved hands-free driving out of the closed expressway and into real city streets. The second leap, the one now underway, is rewriting how the car actually thinks. 1. The Rules Era: An "Exam-Cramming" Trap for City NOA Highway NOA was relatively simple to crack. The road is closed, the geometry is consistent, the actors are mostly cars, and a mature rule-based stack can deliver a comfortable product. Urban NOA is a different beast. The system has to handle traffic lights, unprotected turns, pedestrians, e-bikes, food-delivery scooters running red lights, and a hundred flavors of "I-don't-care-about-the-rules" intersection behavior. The complexity grows exponentially. The earliest urban NOA architectures followed one mantra: cover every possible scenario with hand-written rules . Engineers enumerated traffic situations and wrote thousands of if-then-else statements: when to start moving after a light turns green, how much to slow when cut off, how to plan a trajectory for an unprotected left turn. On the highway this approach can pass a test. In the city it falls apart for a single structural reason. China's urban road users, almost by definition, do not follow the rules. Electric scooters drive the wrong way. Pedestrians cross mid-block. Food-delivery riders weave between cars. Drivers in congested intersections play chicken in the kind of "zipper merge" etiquette nobody teaches. These are the long-tail scenarios that no rule library can fully enumerate. As one early test team admitted about their own city NOA: "It feels like exam cramming — it scores beautifully on the routes we pre-mapped, and the moment it hits an unrecorded scenario, it hesitates, behaves awkwardly, and then asks the driver to take over." That "偏科" (one-trick) experience is precisely why urban NOA penetration in China only reached about 15.1% in 2025 , and rem
The responses to NHTSA's questions so far are redacted entirely, citing "confidential business information."
The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company -- or a group of companies -- in the electric and autonomous vehicle industries.