We’ve been writing about or mentioning Momenta a lot this week. I think this is the 4th time, and I don’t believe we’ve ever covered it before. Today we got news that Momenta has received approval from the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) to do Level 4 autonomous driving testing … [continued]
Robotaxis have gotten a ton of hype in the past decade, and especially the past five years or so. What has gotten much less attention is the potential for autonomous delivery vehicles. Perhaps that is because humans are still needed for managing the cargo and deliveries the vast majority of … [continued]
In this article, I’ll document (mostly through pictures and video) my two test rides in the new Tesla Robotaxi in Tampa and a Waymo I ran across on the way to church this morning. Success After Failure I tried for an hour to call the Tesla Robotaxi in Tampa on … [continued]
The Tesla Robotaxi service is launching in more US cities, but investors were not amused after CEO Elon Musk presented the company’s Q2 report.
The auto industry news of the week has to be Volkswagen’s apparent crisis and plan to cut four factories, half of its models, and about 100,000 employees. So, when I saw other news coming out of Germany, I had to think about Volkswagen and what it’s been lacking, or has … [continued]
The Chinese startup XPENG is moving forward with plans for a new electric robotaxi aimed at the global market for seamless, fully autonomous ride hailing experiences.
I was traveling a lot last week, and I missed the news until very recently that Tesla launched robotaxi service in Miami. Apparently, Tesla now has some unsupervised Robotaxis operating there. However, as I was learning about it, I saw that only a few vehicles had been spotted (people try … [continued]
One of our excellent commenters posted an intriguing comment this morning under an article about how robotaxi app usage is split across the US market. I’ve been following and engaged in this debate for more than a decade, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comment quite like this. … [continued]
Most of us would like to really know how much safer (or not) various robotaxis are than human drivers, and in particular how much safer (or not) they are than the human drivers they’re replacing. Tesla puts out these very generic safety statistics that are by and large useless because … [continued]
Waymo has partnered with Uber in a number of cities to more quickly and widely get people using its vehicles. But the partnership has ended in Phoenix. Phoenix is where Waymo first launched its robotaxi service. So, it was a bit of an odd partnership there, but the company indicates … [continued]
