Amazon’s robotaxi startup Zoox is preparing for the mass production of its purpose-built vehicles at its new factory in California, with Waymo waiting in the wings while Tesla continues to stumble over brand reputation issues.
Robotaxis may be the future, and they are already here now in some places, but there are still issues to resolve. I’ve seen two quite notable problems pop up in recent days with the two most prominent self-driving brands in the US. Tesla Drives Down A Train Track First of … [continued]
Tesla is facing headwinds in Europe, where France has just told the company to stop advertising FSD as a hands off automatic driving aid.
It’s officially summertime now, and there’s always less news in the summer, but the cleantech news never truly pauses globally, so we still have a number of big stories to share from the past week. 1. Tesla’s tiny robotaxi pilot started in Austin, Texas. Tesla fans/shareholders are super enthusiastic about … [continued]
The Wall Street Journal published an article today bringing up the question in the title. Now that Tesla has launched a kind of robotaxi trial in Austin, Texas, with a small number of cars and it’s clearly not perfect, one could ask if Waymo is being massively undervalued compared to … [continued]
As previously reported it would, Waymo has just launched service in Atlanta, Georgia. It has done so in collaboration with Uber. So, starting today, if you want to hail a robotaxi in the city of Atlanta, you can. Waymo’s preferred method of expansion now is clearly to launch exclusively on … [continued]
Tesla’s robotaxi trial in Austin, Texas, was live for less than 24 hours before one of Tesla’s AI-driven cars broke the law. Like, seriously broke the law — I’m not talking about going less than 10 mph over the speed limit. Steve Hanley wrote about it yesterday, referencing a 22-minute … [continued]
The Tesla robotaxi service is now operatihonal in Austin, Texas, but each car has a human monitorwith a kill switch. Does Waymo have that?
While the US market focuses on Waymo and Tesla much of the time when tracking and discussing robotaxis, the fact is, there are robotaxis in operation outside the US already as well. One company developing such vehicle is WeRide. We have covered WeRide numerous times in the past, and I’ll … [continued]
I wrote about Waymo’s expansion into more of California earlier today. It is bringing its robotaxi service to a lot more of the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and the Los Angeles metro area. Then, though, as I was scrolling through Waymo’s X/Twitter feed (where the company exclusively posts a lot … [continued]
