Ahead of Tesla’s robotaxi launch, video from a fatal full self-driving accident shows the shortfalls of relying on cameras only
Driverless robotaxis may soon be funneling select passengers down the streets of Austin, Texas, but video from a fatal 2023 accident in which the driver was employing the car’s full self-driving soft...
Joby shares are taking off again on report of a potential $1 billion deal with a Saudi Arabian investor
Electric air taxi company rose 10% on Tuesday morning following news that the buzzy company is nearing a $1 billion deal to sell 200 of its air taxis to a Saudi Arabian investor.
Report: Elon Musk was lying when he said “Reuters is lying” about Tesla canceling its low-cost car
Last April, Reuters reported that was canceling its long-awaited $25,000 electric vehicle to focus on self-driving taxis instead. Right afterward, CEO Elon Musk tweeted , “This is false. Reuters is l...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s massive self-own is slowly being washed away by his usual approach: Distraction
The signs were always there. From wanting a list of cars whose model names spelled out SEXY to tweeting that he was thinking of taking private at $420 a share, there were obvious signals that Elon Mu...
Poll: More than 70% of American voters say they wouldn’t use robotaxis or Tesla’s full self-driving tech
Ahead of robotaxi rollout next month, market research firm Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report surveyed 8,000 American voters in May on their feelings regarding autonomous driving. While CEO Elon Mus...
Uber and Lyft shares tap the brakes on a potential “long-term threat” from Tesla robotaxis
Ride-hailing biggies and each experienced notable declines Thursday after CEO Elon Musk said his company is ahead of schedule in its plan to launch its robotaxi service in Austin next month. Shares...
Tesla is finally testing driverless robotaxis in Austin, just a few weeks before launching them to the public
has been testing driverless robotaxis on public streets Austin for the “past several days,” CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet in the middle of the night, confirming previous reporting . For the past sever...
Air taxi maker Joby Aviation spikes 27% following a $250 million Toyota investment
Electric air taxi company is getting some wind beneath its carbon fiber propellers following an announcement that it received a $250 million investment from . The money is half of a larger sum Toyota...
Ives raises Tesla price target to $500 and declares the “golden age of autonomous growth”
After a temporary detour , Tesla’s biggest bull is back to being bullish. Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives today raised the firm’s price target for to $500 from $350, saying that the launch of Tes...
Tesla’s robotaxi will be invite-only and have drivers who are not in the car
robotaxi launch is still on, but the details are a lot less exciting than they originally seemed, according to a note from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, who attended a Tesla session hosted by Hea...
Report: Tesla sold leased vehicles for more money as robotaxi network never materialized
Back in 2019, enacted a strange policy: you could lease a Tesla, but at the end of the lease you couldn’t buy it like you could with most other cars. The reason CEO Elon Musk gave was that the electr...
Tesla is supposed to offer driverless robotaxis next month. As of last month, it reportedly hasn’t tested a single driverless ride.
says it’s still on track to launch its driverless robotaxis in Austin next month (or maybe July ) but, as of last month, the electric vehicle company had yet to actually test a driverless ride, The In...
Tesla up more than 9% after Trump administration relaxes self-driving regulations
big bet on the Trump administration looks like it’s paying off both for Tesla’s autonomous future and its stock, which is up nearly 10% today. Yesterday the US Department of Transportation announced a...
Google’s side business is beating Tesla at its main business
-parent-owned Waymo is now doing more than a quarter of a million paid passenger trips in its driverless vehicles each week, the company said in its earnings report yesterday. That’s a 5x increase fro...
You* can now** ride in Tesla’s robotaxi ***
* If you are a select employee. ** If you’re in the Bay Area or Austin. *** If someone is sitting in the driver’s seat. Yesterday, Tesla announced on X that it’s testing a supervised version of its u...
What we now know about Tesla’s Austin robotaxi launch this year
Despite its tumultuous quarter , says it’s on track for its robotaxi launch in Austin this year. That means regular people will be able to pay money to ride in a self-driving fleet of Tesla-owned veh...
Archer Aviation, with United Airlines, wants to fly New Yorkers to the airport
Shares of electric air taxi company surged more than 7% Thursday morning following an announcement that the company is planning an NYC network in partnership with its investor . Using Manhattan helip...
Elon Musk ignored internal Tesla analysis that found robotaxis might never be profitable: Report
Tesla Technoking Elon Musk pushed aside his company’s long-awaited $25,000 car, known as the Model 2, in exchange for the Cybercab — even after internal analysis showed the pedal-less, driverless ve...
Xiaomi shares closed down 5.5% on news of a fatal car crash involving one of its “smart-driving” EVs
Shares in dropped on Tuesday after a statement on Weibo from the Chinese tech giant, which also makes smartphones and other consumer electronics, confirmed that the SU7 electric vehicle’s advanced dr...
Mobileye jumps as it strikes Volkswagen autonomous driving collab
rose by more than 5% in early trading after announced that it would partner with the autonomous driving company to upgrade its driver assistance systems.