Lyft is building the infrastructure robotaxis can’t avoid
Lyft is leaning into a less flashy but increasingly essential part of the robotaxi race: everything that happens off the road. Today gave new details about how exactly it plans to manage Waymo fleet...
Lucid climbs after announcements of new CEO and expanded robotaxi partnership with Uber
Shares of luxury EV maker climbed more than 12% in premarket trading on Tuesday following two announcements, before news of a public stock offering erased most of the gains. First, the company announ...
What the first FSD approval in Europe means for Tesla
On Friday, Dutch regulators approved a version of supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, making the Netherlands the first country in Europe where the technology can be used. Tesla has long arg...
Waymo’s now serving more than 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week
Per the company’s post on X last Thursday, Google-owned Waymo is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week, an eye-popping figure that’s slowly turning the street-side attraction into a dai...
The US leads the world in robotaxi deployments
Every day it seems another robotaxi launches somewhere in the world. But most of them are in the US. Of the 171 active robotaxi deployments globally, 69 — or 40% — are in the US, according to a new re...
Amazon’s Zoox to increase San Francisco and Las Vegas footprint and expand service to Austin and Miami this year
self-driving unit, Zoox, has plans to debut its robotaxi service in Austin and Miami this year, where it’s currently testing, the company announced today. It also said it would be expanding its footpr...
Alphabet’s drone delivery startup, Wing, expands service to the Bay Area
Move over Waymo — another one of “Other Bets” is expanding. Drone delivery company Wing said Monday it’s bringing its “ultra-fast residential drone delivery service” to the Bay Area, where autonomous...
NHTSA expands Tesla FSD probe, focusing on whether system can detect when cameras can’t see the road
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is expanding its probe into Full Self-Driving system into an engineering analysis covering about 3.2 million Teslas, a majority of its vehic...
Uber will invest $1.25 billion in Rivian in a new robotaxi deal
EV maker surged more than 9% in premarket trading on Thursday following an announcement that will invest up to $1.25 billion in the company through 2031 as part of a robotaxi partnership. The deal w...
Morgan Stanley says robotaxis could help Tesla sell more cars
Morgan Stanley analysts think robotaxi push could boost more than just a new business line — it could help sell more cars and software, too. After visiting Giga Texas, analysts said they’re more opti...
Morgan Stanley thinks Tesla’s Terafab could cost an additional $35 billion to $45 billion in capex
Terafab project , which CEO Elon Musk said could launch this week, is poised to be one of the company’s most expensive bets yet. The facility is intended to manufacture the chips needed for Tesla’s au...
Nvidia pushes further into the autonomous vehicle space to compete with Tesla and Waymo
On Monday, announced that it was expanding its partnerships with both and , positioning itself as the technical backbone for future robotaxi fleets as it pushes deeper into the autonomous vehicle ma...
Lyft and Uber jump after announcing expanded robotaxi partnerships with Nvidia
and both announced expanded AI and autonomous vehicle partnerships with Nvidia at the company’s GTC event, sending both ride-hailing stocks up after-hours. Uber was recently up 3.3%, while Lyft rose ...
Uber relaunches robotaxi service with Hyundai-backed Motional in Las Vegas
What happens in Vegas, keeps happening in Vegas. Uber users in Las Vegas can now be matched with an electric Motional IONIQ 5 robotaxi along parts of the Strip and at select casinos, resorts, and the ...
Lucid announces Cybercab competitor and self-driving tech subscription in a bid to take on Tesla
At Investor Day Thursday, the company announced plans that seem a lot like that of its bigger electric vehicle competitor, . That includes a monthly subscription for its self-driving tech, akin to Te...
Uber, which exited self-driving in 2020, is now at the center of the robotaxi era
Today, announced a partnership with and autonomous tech startup Wayve to launch a robotaxi service in Tokyo later this year, as part of a plan to expand autonomous services to 10 markets globally . Y...
Uber jumps on news it’s partnering with Amazon’s Zoox in Las Vegas and Los Angeles
jumped premarket after announcing it will offer rides in -owned Zoox autonomous vehicles on its platform in Las Vegas later this summer and Los Angeles in the middle of next year, as part of a multiye...
Joby, Archer, and Beta climb following their inclusion in the Trump administration’s air taxi pilot program
Shares of air taxi makers , , and are climbing in Monday afternoon trading following the Department of Transportation’s announcement of their inclusion in the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. Archer ...
Amazon’s autonomous ride-hailing service now testing in 10 markets
self-driving subsidiary Zoox announced Monday that it’s testing in two additional markets, Phoenix and Dallas, bringing its total to 10 US markets. The company will begin by mapping select neighborhoo...
Alphabet ties a portion of Sundar Pichai’s pay to Waymo for the first time
Alphabet and CEO Sundar Pichai’s salary this year remains a miserly $2 million. But with stock-based incentives — including Bet Performance Units tied to Waymo for the first time — his total payout c...