I just wrote an article about new incentives for electric vehicle buyers in California. However, there’s a specific group of drivers who just got a much bigger EV incentive boost in the Golden State. “The Drivers Assistance Program, also known as Rideshare Incentives for Driving Electric, or RIDE, will provide … [continued]
Late last night and early this morning, I wrote an article outlining one big reason robotaxis won’t replace car ownership to a very significant degree. There’s another big reason, sort of related to that, that a reader pointed out and explained well, and some other readers backed up in additional … [continued]
Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts are tired of being taken advantage of, and are thus diverging from the long-term trend in the USA away from worker unions. Drivers for Uber and Lyft in The Baked Bean State have decided to combine forces for better pay and conditions by unionizing, … [continued]
A handful more partnerships between robotaxi companies and ride-hailing apps have popped out in recent days and weeks. Baidu x Lyft & Uber in London First of all, we’ve got Baidu partnering with Uber and Lyft in London. Uber and Lyft testing of the Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi system is … [continued]
Lyft’s CEO, David Risher, is apparently not as bullish on robotaxis taking over as many Waymo and Tesla fans are. At the Web Summit event in Lisbon, Portugal, last week, where there were 71,000 attendees and you can imagine many of them were AI fans and robotaxi bulls, Risher argued … [continued]
Waymo keeps adding robotaxi services in more and more cities. Its habit this year has been to partner with Uber in these new markets, making Waymo robotaxi rides available exclusively on the Uber app. However, in Waymo’s newest city, Nashville, the robotaxi company is partnering with Lyft. It makes sense. … [continued]
An Apollo Go robotaxi may have just fallen into a construction pit while in service in China, but the robotaxi business is still continuously expanding, including in Europe. Baidu (“China’s Google”) is the parent company of Apollo Go (“China’s Waymo”). It has done a pretty good job of expanding its … [continued]
While Uber, Lyft, and Waymo have been major brands for app-based taxi service for years, we actually don’t get a lot of broad information or insight on pricing, thanks to flexible demand-based, location-based pricing that is constantly changing. However, an app named Obi that aggregates real-time pricing from different ride-hailing … [continued]
There’s been a lot going on in the advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) industry in the past couple of weeks. BYD has announced it’s including advanced driver-assist systems in all of its new models for free. Several Chinese automakers are partnering with DeepSeek, which may well have an autonomous driving component … [continued]
Much of the discussion around robotaxis these days is focused on how well they work and how quickly they can scale up and reproduce. However, some of the initial premises on why robotaxis could be good and helpful have probably not gotten enough attention. Bloomberg recently interviewed former director of … [continued]
