autonomous vehicles

Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked Waymo for more information about its self-driving system and operations following reports from the Austin School District that its robotaxis illegally passed school buses 19 times this year. In a December 3 letter sent to Waymo, regulators requested detailed information about its fifth-generation self-driving system and operations. […]

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Musk says new Tesla software allows texting and driving, which is illegal in most states

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an X post Thursday that owners can text and drive with the latest version of his company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driver assistance software, despite the fact that it’s illegal to do so in most states. Musk replied to another user who had noticed the newest update to the software,

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Autolane is building ‘air traffic control’ for autonomous vehicles

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The rapid succession of robotaxi deployments from companies like Waymo and Zoox have people in the industry, once again, dreaming about how autonomous vehicles might change our daily lives. That includes driverless taxi rides, sure, but also headier ideas like sending an autonomous vehicle to fetch groceries or pick up dry cleaning. If those things

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China’s Pony AI plans to triple global robotaxi fleet by the end of 2026

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Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company Pony.ai said Tuesday it plans to triple the size of its robotaxi fleet by the end of next year as its pace of growth — and aspirations — accelerates. The company, which has about 961 robotaxis in the fleet today, announced the goal during its third-quarter earnings. Pony.ai is targeting

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This Khosla-based startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch

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For San Francisco-based startup Point One Navigation, the value of ‘location, location, location’ extends well beyond real estate. And investors seem to agree. Point One Navigation, a startup that has developed precise location technology, has just raised $35 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures. The company’s post-money valuation is now $230

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Waymo enters 3 more cities: Minneapolis, New Orleans and Tampa

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Waymo has three new cities in its sights as it continues to expand around the United States: Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Tampa. The company said on Thursday that it will start manually driving its vehicles in those cities “in the coming days,” ahead of testing and validating its driverless tech, before eventually launching a commercial

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Uber Eats will use Starship sidewalk robots to deliver food in the UK

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Uber Eats is partnering with sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies to deliver food in the U.K. starting later this year. The companies will start the service in the Leeds and Sheffield areas “from select merchants” in December and expand from there. Uber said the service will expand to “additional European markets in 2026” and

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Monarch Tractor preps for layoffs and warns employees it may ‘shut down’

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Autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor warned staff Thursday it may need to lay off more than 100 employees, or possibly even ‘shut down,’ according to a company-wide memo obtained by TechCrunch. The memo comes after Monarch Tractor was already cutting some positions over the last few weeks at its California corporate facilities and remote

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Monarch Tractor sued over tractors that were ‘unable to operate autonomously’

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Monarch Tractor has been accused of overpromising on the autonomous capabilities of its tractors, according to a new lawsuit. Burks Tractor, a dealership located in Idaho, has sued Monarch for breach of contract and allegedly violating its warranty because the California-based startup’s tractors were “unable to operate autonomously.” The dealership also says the 10 tractors

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