Waymo is growing its driverless service area by nearly 250 square miles over the next week, spread across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
That’s about as big as Tesla’s entire Houston Robotaxi geofence aft…
Elon Musk says Tesla’s Robotaxi race against Waymo “was never a real contest” after Tesla’s driverless fleet logged 438,000 miles in Austin in a single week, edging past Waymo’s 406,000 weekly average in the city.
That’s one city, one week, and a Wa…
Tesla expanded its Robotaxi service area in Houston today, and it shaped the new geofence like a rocket. Plenty of people on X see something else in it, which is fair given the phallic Austin map Tesla posted in 2025.
It’s a cute nod to Houston’s sp…
Rivian wants to rebuild the roads its customers drive as 3D test worlds for its self-driving system, and it just bought a 15-person UK startup called Third Dimension to do it, as first reported by TechCrunch.
The startup was founded in 2024 by a for…
Tesla says it’s building its own maps to fix some of the most common problems with its “Full Self-Driving” system, including reading speed limits, parking, and choosing routes. The company’s head of AI described the effort on Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings c…
Pickups and dropoffs will happen at dedicated “autonomous vehicle zones” at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.
The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto’s streets.
Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028.
That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced market ou…
Tesla’s latest crash reports to federal regulators add two more “Robotaxi” crashes where a remote operator, not the car’s autonomous system, was driving when it hit something.
That brings it to five in the data now. And every remote takeover that ha…
A new defect petition accuses Tesla’s Robotaxis of speeding through active school zones, and NHTSA has opened a file to decide whether to investigate. The agency puts the affected fleet at about 1,000 vehicles, Model Y and Cybercab.
It’s the third f…