Volkswagen’s Cars Can Now Pull Over and Call for Help by Themselves. You’re Still Legally the One Driving.
Picture the moment: cruising at 70 mph, hands on the wheel one second, unresponsive the...
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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...
Tesla’s Cybercab Didn’t Ask Permission to Ditch the Steering Wheel. Now the Feds Want a Word.
NHTSA didn’t open a Cybercab audit because anyone believes the car is dangerous. It opened...
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...
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...
Tesla’s Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Skipped a Step Every Other Robotaxi Took First
Tesla’s Cybercab is now picking up paying riders in Austin with no steering wheel, no...
Stellantis Wants to Beam a Hologram Into Your Robotaxi’s Driver Seat. Here’s What It’s Not Telling You.
Somewhere in Stellantis’ latest patent filing sits an admission the company will never put in...
Waymo Told NHTSA How It Decides School-Zone Speeds. Then It Blacked Out the Answer.
A nine-year-old girl in Santa Monica is fine. She stood up, walked to the curb,...
Tesla’s Recalling Nearly 5 Million Cars In China Over Door Handles It Still Won’t Redesign
Tesla just told Chinese regulators it will fix nearly five million cars without a single...
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...
Volvo’s EX90 Came With a Life-Saving Sensor — When Its Supplier Went Bankrupt, Owners Got SiriusXM Instead
The sensor is still bolted to the roof. What died was the promise behind it....
Huawei Promised It Would Never Build A Car. It Didn’t Have To – It’s Already Running 25 Of Them
Huawei’s founder has put his signature on a promise, more than once, guaranteeing his company...
California Legalized 80,000-Pound Driverless Trucks Using a Rule Built for Fixing Typos. The Teamsters Just Called That Bluff.
No self-driving semi has crashed on a California freeway. None has even been allowed to...
Waymo ‘Recalled’ 4,000 Robotaxis For Blowing Through Construction Zones — And Not One Of Them Stopped Driving
Nearly 4,000 Waymo robotaxis are now the subject of a recall filed with the National...
GM Drove Hands-Free From Coast to Coast in Canada. It Left the Five-Year Federal Data Ban Out of the Press Release.
GM Canada spent this summer driving a fleet of Chevrolets, Buicks, GMCs and Cadillacs from...