Waymo picked Munich for its first EU city, late 2027
The picture Waymo put out is a white Jaguar under the Siegestor at sunset, sensor dome on the roof, nobody visibly in it. Right now that picture is the whole ...
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Nevada cleared 8,000 robotaxis, and Tesla’s 5,000 is a ceiling
Three weeks ago Tesla was allowed ten robotaxis on one stretch of the Strip. On 20 August the same regulator handed it a permit for up to five thousand across ...
Prime Air promises 500 cities from 11 drone sites
Five metro areas got named. Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, Boise. Amazon's post on 19 August says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of ...
Uber and Pony.ai promised 2,000 robotaxis and named one city
Ten cars. That is the whole robotaxi fleet carrying paying passengers in Europe on this partnership right now, a handful of Arcfox SUVs doing flat 1.99 euro rides around Zagreb ...
TfL licensed 15 Wayve cars in London, driver still inside
Picture the car that just got licensed. A Ford Mustang Mach-E with surround cameras and radar, and a person sat behind the steering wheel who is legally the driver. That ...
A judge shut Waymo’s Santa Monica depot from 11pm to 6am
Eleven at night on Broadway in Santa Monica, and the cars come home. Not to a garage, to two open lots, where they beep and reverse into the chargers and ...
Zoox wins Part 555: paid robotaxi, no steering wheel
Sit in a Zoox and there is nowhere to put your hands. Four seats facing each other, no wheel, no pedals, no front. On 31 July the Federal Register published ...
FCC robot ban: the 4.4 lb rule that catches vacuums
Your robot vacuum still works. Worth saying first, because the headlines this week read like the US outlawed robots, and plenty of people went and looked at their hallway. What ...