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- Volvo Autonomous Solutions Passes 3 Million Tonnes Hauled Driverless — — VAS tripled its haulage milestone in 15 months as nine driverless articulated trucks moved 3 Mt of limestone and mining rock at Bronnoy Kalk and Bolid...
- Waymo Opens Robotaxis To Teenagers In Nashville — — Waymo extends its teen rider program from Phoenix to Nashville, letting parents grant 13-to-17-year-olds their own driverless accounts.
- Autonomous Racecars Overtake Each Other At Laguna Seca For The First Time — — Unimore Racing wins the Indy Autonomous Challenge at Laguna Seca as autonomous cars execute their first-ever overtakes on a road course.
- Mercedes-Benz Bets On Wayve AI Driver In $8.6B Production Deal — — Mercedes-Benz signed a production agreement to put Wayve's end-to-end AI Driver into future premium vehicles and led a $1.5 billion Series D that valu...
- Tesla Reopens Roadster Reservations At $50,000 Ahead Of October 1 Reveal — — Tesla is once again taking $50,000 deposits — $5,000 upfront plus a $45,000 wire within 10 days — on a car with no delivery date, promising a 620-mile...
- Hyundai Turns On AI 'Data Flywheel' To Close Waymo And Tesla Autonomy Gap — — Hyundai Motor Group has put its AI-powered Data Flywheel into full operation, pairing 42dot's closed-loop training pipeline with fleet data from ~7 mi...
- Waymo Sets 2028 Robotaxi Launch in Singapore, Its First Southeast Asia Market — — Alphabet's Waymo will bring its all-electric robotaxi service to Singapore in 2028, using Jaguar I-PACE vehicles and a 2027 manual-driving training ph...
- Lucid And Bolt Plan 25,000 Robotaxis On NVIDIA Hyperion For Europe — — Lucid Motors and Bolt agreed to put up to 25,000 autonomous EVs on European roads by 2035, built on Lucid's Midsize platform and NVIDIA's Hyperion arc...
- Waymo Turns On Public Driverless Rides In Las Vegas, Its 15th U.S. City — — Waymo has begun public driverless robotaxi service on the Las Vegas Strip, opening its 15th U.S. commercial market and capping a four-city September e...
- May Mobility Heads To Nasdaq In A $1.4B SPAC Deal With ACP Holdings — — May Mobility agreed to merge with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp. at a $1.4B valuation, taking the autonomous ride-hail company public on the Nasdaq wi...
- Hello Robotaxi Bags ~$100M At Nearly $3B For Its HR1 Robotaxi Buildout — — Hello Robotaxi, the L4 JV between Hello Inc., Ant Group and CATL, has closed ~$100M at nearly $3B post-money led by Shanghai Guotou Pioneer Fund to sc...
- Autonomous Solutions Puts 255,000 Acres Of Florida Sugarcane On Autopilot With John Deere — — Utah-based Autonomous Solutions has stood up what it calls the largest autonomous vehicle fleet in the history of American sugarcane farming with U.S....
- Waymo opens Las Vegas robotaxi service, its 15th market — — Waymo has started paid rides on the Las Vegas Strip using its Zeekr-built Ojai minivans, adding Nevada's biggest city to a network that now spans 15 U...
- Pony.ai And GAC Unveil Gen-4 Level 4 Electric Robotruck At IAA Transportation 2026 — — The joint Pony.ai and GAC Commercial Vehicle Level-4 robotruck rides on the GAC T9 electric platform, cuts autonomous-driving-kit costs 70% and target...
- Waymo, Nihon Kotsu And GO Set 2027 Launch For Tokyo's First Fully Autonomous Robotaxi Service — — Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and Japan's largest taxi-hailing app GO have formally agreed to launch an unmanned commercial ride-hailing service in Tokyo in 2027...
- Pentagon Sets 'GroundBreaker 1' UGV Demo For October Amid Robot Race — — The Defense Department will run its first joint UGV showdown at Camp Grafton, North Dakota in October, letting six vendors run Overland AI, HDT, Ameri...
- Toyota, IVECO Team Up On EU-Backed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Heavy Truck — — Toyota and IVECO Group joined forces on next-generation hydrogen fuel cell heavy trucks under the EU-funded EMPOWER programme, with validation of the...
- Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa — — Waymo brings driverless commercial service to 14 U.S. cities as its Zeekr-built Ojai minivan debuts in Denver and San Diego.
- Lyft Turns On Waymo Robotaxi Matching In Nashville As Uber Exclusivity Cracks — — Nashville riders can now be matched with a Waymo autonomous vehicle straight from the Lyft app, the first US city where the same driverless fleet live...
- Zoox Extends Las Vegas Robotaxi Service to Harry Reid Airport — — Amazon-owned Zoox has extended its commercial robotaxi service to Las Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport, unlocking a critical ride-hailing desti...