Lucid rises following the delivery of its first Uber robotaxi (of 20,000) and a price target bump
One down, a minimum of 19,999 to go. In a Wednesday morning post on X featuring some of the most royalty-free music you’ve ever heard, announced it’s delivered its first Gravity SUV earmarked for ser...
Uber is giving drone deliveries another go in a partnership with Flytrex
Ride-hail and delivery giant on Thursday announced a new partnership with drone operator Flytrex to begin testing an autonomous delivery-by-air system by the end of the year. As one of the few drone ...
Lyft jumps as it gets partnership with Google’s Waymo for Nashville expansion
Waymo is expanding to Nashville next year, where it will be the first autonomous car service in the area, and it’s partnering with to do so. Shares of Lyft surged 9.3% shortly after markets opened. C...
Mapped: Where Google’s Waymo is, will be, and might go
As stakes its future on autonomous cars and as self-driving competitors like Zoox start popping up , Waymo remains the elephant in the room. Currently, Waymo is publicly operating more than 2,000 au...
Investors pour into Joby and Archer after White House announces air taxi pilot program participation
On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the creation of a new FAA pilot program aimed at speeding up the development of “advanced air mobility” vehicles, including electric air taxis ...
Tesla gets permit to test autonomous cars in Nevada as autonomous driving heats up there
now has a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in Nevada, according a report yesterday from Tesla influencer Sawyer Merritt that was confirmed by TechCrunch . Nevada, which has a lower barrier to en...
BofA doesn’t expect Tesla’s ride-share service to have an impact on Uber or Lyft this year
Analysts at Bank of America Global Research compared new Bay Area ride-sharing service with its rivals and found that, for now, it’s not much competition for and . “Tesla scale in SF is still small,...
Joby takes off as Uber says it’ll add Blade helicopter trips to its app
Shares of air taxi maker are up more than 7% in premarket trading Wednesday, following news that will add the company’s Blade helicopter and seaplane services to its app as soon as next year. Joby C...
Trump administration plans to loosen rules for self-driving cars, exempt them from windshield wipers
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday it’s planning to propose three new rules that will make it easier for self-driving car companies to develop their vehicles more...
Tesla’s new Robotaxi app is already near the top of Apple’s App Store
launched its Robotaxi app last night and already it’s the No. 6 most downloaded app in free App Store. It’s also currently the top travel app, ahead of the perennially popular and .
Tesla Robotaxi waitlist now open to all
Last month when CEO Elon Musk said the company’s Robotaxi service would be “open access” in September, we had some reservations about what that really meant. Now we have a little more clarity. The co...
Google’s Waymo now has 2,000 autonomous cars in service, while Tesla has about 30
Last week robotaxi service announced that it increased its coverage area in Austin to 173 square miles from 91 (the map of the coverage area is no longer penis-shaped ) and increased the number of ca...
Tesla says cameras are better than other sensors. Americans disagree.
has staked its autonomous driving future on a relatively cheap solution : using cameras alone rather than a combination with the much more expensive lidar that its competitor, Waymo, employs to opera...
Lyft’s CEO on the economics of robotaxis, how to end surge pricing, and reviving his company
Lyft has long had a reputation on Wall Street for living under the shadow of Uber, its larger and more profitable competitor. But if you ask CEO David Risher, the company is in the middle of a major t...
As Tesla and Google’s Waymo move forward with autonomous driving, Americans want guardrails
and Waymo are speeding ahead with their self-driving car programs whether Americans want them or not. And judging from new survey data from Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report, Americans generally d...
Google’s Waymo gets permit to test autonomous cars in New York City
-owned Waymo is going to begin testing its autonomous vehicles in the busiest city in the US: New York. The company received a permit to test up to eight self-driving cars — with a trained AV speciali...
US government investigating Tesla over delays in reporting self-driving accident data
In early August, a federal jury found partly responsible for a 2019 autopilot crash that killed a pedestrian. During the trial, lawyers for the plaintiffs showed that Tesla had withheld and denied hav...
Joby completes first test flight between US airports
Air taxi maker announced Friday that it’s completed its first US test flight between two airports. Joby shares were up more than 9% in premarket trading but then gave that all back soon after the regu...
Archer Aviation posts Q2 loss, but it builds up its cash pile
Air taxi/military aircraft builder reported a worse-than-expected loss in the second quarter, though its cash pile climbed. Archer posted a loss of $0.36 per share, worse than the $0.25 loss expected...
Six months after gutting its Cruise robotaxi business, GM is reportedly back in on autonomous vehicles
rocky relationship with autonomous vehicles is back on, according to reporting by Bloomberg. The automaker, which shuttered its robotaxi business Cruise in February, is said to be courting former empl...