Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podca…
Waymo’s robotaxis had a rough Fourth of July. In San Francisco they ran out of charge, snarled traffic for hours, and one drove over a lit firework and caught fire. Over the holiday weekend, driverless Waymo cars became the story instead of the technol…
Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in combat zones in Ukraine for the past nine months. The company says it is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in c…
A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits…
Tesla has mapped out a Robotaxi service area in Miami, publishing a geofence that covers only a small slice of the metro — mostly West Miami and a strip stretching toward Doral and Sweetwater.
It’s the latest city Tesla has drawn a box around, but the …
Momenta is heading to the public markets. The self-driving software firm has opened its Hong Kong IPO, seeking up to $752mn to pour into AI research and robotaxis. The Momenta IPO would value the GM-backed company at close to $9bn. The Suzhou-based com…
A settlement is the sound a lawsuit makes when it stops. For Tesla, one just went quiet. The far louder problem, a federal safety investigation, is still talking. Tesla has settled a lawsuit tied to a fatal 2023 crash involving its Full Self-Driving (S…
The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems. The rule change, if adopted, would eliminate one…
Rivian is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it spent five years making false promises about the autonomous driving capabilities of its first-generation R1T truck and R1S SUV. The complaint, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Central …
Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also…