Tesla adds Robotaxi in Tampa and Orlando as Austin stalls at 17 cars
Tesla adds Robotaxi in Tampa and Orlando as Austin stalls at 17 cars

Tesla switched on its “Robotaxi” service in Tampa and Orlando on Monday, adding two Florida cities to a driverless network that still runs on a couple dozen cars. The company’s @robotaxi account announced it in a four-word post: “Robotaxi now in Tampa …

Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ got me a speeding ticket, and Tesla killed the fix
Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ got me a speeding ticket, and Tesla killed the fix

I got a speeding ticket this weekend while using Tesla’s Full Self-Driving. The car was driving itself in Standard mode on FSD when it took me up to 78 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.
A police officer coming the other way clocked me on radar and pulled me over…

Tesla says it’s building a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi in Texas
Tesla says it’s building a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi in Texas

Tesla is building a purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle, a company policy advisor told lawmakers in Washington, DC, on Monday.
But Tesla gave no timeline, no vehicle, and no details, and it’s not clear the “active product” is anythi…

Waymo goes driverless in Las Vegas, with Denver, San Diego, Tampa next
Waymo goes driverless in Las Vegas, with Denver, San Diego, Tampa next

Waymo has activated fully driverless operations in Las Vegas, its riders will now see vehicles with no human at the wheel, and the Alphabet unit says Denver, San Diego, and Tampa are next in line.
The move adds four new markets to Waymo’s driverless fo…

Tesla teases new FSD features — but it’s still not the self-driving promised
Tesla teases new FSD features — but it’s still not the self-driving promised

Elon Musk says Tesla’s Full Self-Driving will soon remember your parking preferences and let you talk to it through Grok, like giving directions to an Uber driver.
The features sound useful, and they reflect how genuinely impressive FSD has become — bu…

Waymo’s robotaxis keep finding new things to drive into, and construction zones are the latest

Waymo’s robotaxis drove through highway construction zones 13 times before the company pulled the whole fleet from highway operations.

Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall
Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the money automakers charge for self-driving software won’t last, comparing autonomy to airbags: a paid option today, baked into the price of every car tomorrow.
The comments, made in a new interview with WIRED, amount to a …

Tesla ‘Robotaxis’ are not crashing because they are not running
Tesla ‘Robotaxis’ are not crashing because they are not running

Tesla didn’t report a single at-fault “Robotaxi” crash in the latest NHTSA autonomous-vehicle data — its only fresh incident was a Model Y getting rear-ended while stopped, clearly the other driver’s fault.
That sounds like good news for Tesla’s safety…

Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo
Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo

Baidu’s Apollo Go has received a Level 4 autonomous driving permit in Switzerland for AmiGo, a robotaxi service it is running with Swiss Post’s PostBus, putting the Chinese tech giant ahead of Waymo and Tesla in deploying driverless vehicles into Europ…

Waymo buys Apple’s abandoned self-driving car proving ground for $220M
Waymo buys Apple’s abandoned self-driving car proving ground for $220M

Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre autonomous vehicle proving ground in Wittmann, Arizona, for $220 million — nearly double the $125 million Apple paid for it in 2021. The facility was the centerpiece of Apple’s now-dead self-driving car program.