Zoox Can Legally Build 2,500 Robotaxis a Year. It Still Can’t Charge You a Dime for a Ride in San Francisco.
Zoox holds two of California’s four robotaxi permits, and neither one allows it to take your money. The free rides…
Autonomous Cars
China Set a Real Deadline for Self-Driving Cars. America’s Still Handing Out Permission Slips One at a Time.
Nine Chinese ministries just set a 2030 deadline for autonomous vehicles, backed by a mandatory safety standard. Ten weeks earlier,…
Tesla Has 80,000 Superchargers and Still Doesn’t Have the Ones Its Own Robotaxis Need
Tesla’s Supercharger network was sized around how people charge. A driverless fleet does not behave like a person — and…
Tesla’s Latest FSD Update Will Grab the Wheel Mid-Crash, Whether You Want It To or Not
Tesla has spent years telling owners that Full Self-Driving is something you switch on. With...
Hyundai’s Georgia-Built Waymo Robotaxi Isn’t a Patriotism Story. It’s a Compliance Deadline.
The first IONIQ 5 robotaxis arrive in the fourth quarter. A Commerce Department rule makes Chinese-origin driving software unsellable from…
Hyundai’s 2028 Self-Driving Plan Hinges on a Level That Doesn’t Officially Exist
Hyundai Motor Group spent a day at 42dot’s headquarters in Gyeonggi Province explaining how it...
China’s Draft Law Would Fine Automakers, Not Drivers, for Self-Driving Violations
Beijing just answered the question every automaker building self-driving cars has been dodging: when the...
Ford’s 17-Truck Recall, Diesel Past $6, and What Else Moved
Our automotive news roundup for the last 24 hours: three more Ford recalls, a Daimler repair being done a third…
Spain Just Issued Its First Robotaxi Permit — But There’s Still a Human Driving It
Spain’s traffic authority just handed WeRide, Uber, and a fleet-operations company called AVOMO the country’s...
A Sneeze Caused a Fatal Crash With an Amish Buggy in Wisconsin. The Real Question Is Whether Modern Safety Tech Would Have Even Seen It Coming
On a hill outside Tomah, Wisconsin, last Friday afternoon, an ordinary human reflex collided with...
Uber Cut 3,300 Jobs to Chase Robotaxis. Its Best Robotaxi Partner Is Already Leaving the App
Every layoff comes wrapped in the same corporate vocabulary: flattening, simplifying, refocusing. Uber’s September 2...
Grok In Tesla Robotaxis: The Fine Print Riders Are Missing
Everyone’s passing around the news that Grok is “coming” to Tesla’s Robotaxi service. It isn’t...
Cybercab Federal Audit Opens as Waymo Reaches 14 Cities
On September 1, Waymo opened public rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, pushing its...
Uber Cut 3,300 Jobs the Same Day It Put Driverless Mustangs on London’s Streets. That’s Not a Coincidence.
On September 2, Uber’s newsroom quietly published two stories within hours of each other. One...
Georgia Law Blocks Atlanta From Regulating Waymo Robotaxis, Drivers Discover
There’s a particular kind of irony in watching a gig-economy workforce organize against automation. Fifteen...