Hertz Gave Up Half the Votes in Robotaxi Unit Oro for About a Sixth of the Profits. Here’s Where the $81 Million Went
Hertz sold about a sixth of Oro's profits and half its votes for $81 million. The 8-K shows most of…
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A Waymo Stopped for an Austin School Bus, Phoned a Human for Help, and Got the Wrong Answer From Michigan
A Waymo stopped for an Austin school bus, asked a remote agent whether its signals were on, and drove past…
Denver Can Ticket a Parked Waymo. When One Breaks Traffic Laws, Colorado Law Names No One to Cite
Colorado's 2017 self-driving law makes robotaxis follow the rules of the road but never says who gets the ticket when…
Lucid Promised Bolt 25,000 Robotaxis. Europe Only Lets It Register 1,500 a Year.
Lucid and Bolt say 25,000 driverless Lucids are headed for Europe. The EU's own rules currently cap each driverless vehicle…
Zoox’s Robotaxi Is All-Electric. The SUVs Teaching It to Drive Still Have Tailpipes.
Zoox's Atlanta test fleet is parked after drivers reported feeling sick. The real story isn't the robotaxi. It's the modified…
California Opened the Door to Robot Semis. Most of the Homework Gets Done in Texas.
California's new heavy-duty AV rules demand a million autonomous miles before a driverless semi can deploy, but up to 800,000…
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...
73,000 People ‘Signed Up’ for Tesla’s Cybercab Fleet. Not One of Them Bought Anything.
One day after Tesla started charging real money for driverless rides in Austin, a number...
Pony.ai Promised Europe More Robotaxis Than It’s Ever Built. Who Owns the Ones That Don’t Exist Yet?
Somewhere inside a routine filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sits a sentence...
Tesla’s Cybercab Has No Steering Wheel and No Backup Plan — Which Is Why Employees Ride First, Not You
Tesla has reportedly told employees to be ready for the first public-road rides in the...
Waymo’s Robotaxis Are Racking Up Austin Parking Tickets Because Free Curb Space Beats a Real Garage
Waymo's Austin robotaxis have picked up 83 parking tickets worth $9,325. The fines aren't the story. The business decision behind…
Hyundai And Kia’s Self-Disinfecting Cars Aren’t Really About Germs. They’re About Cars No One’s Left To Clean.
Hyundai and Kia just told the world they’re building UV lights into car interiors to...
Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Fire Scenes, and Washington Just Admitted There’s No Rule Against It
Every state in the country tests new drivers on the same handful of judgment calls:...
A Tesla Killed a Grandmother in Her Own Living Room. Tesla’s Autopilot Chief Blames the Driver.
A quiet evening in a Katy, Texas neighborhood turned into tragedy on June 19 when...
A Waymo Plowed Through a Construction Zone and Sped Off With Cops Chasing It on the 101
Here’s the nightmare scenario every robotaxi skeptic has been quietly waiting for: you climb into...