AI Regulation
Waymo's Munich Launch Starts With Humans Driving, Not Robotaxis
The Munich announcement contains no permit, no fleet size and no driverless service. What begins in the coming weeks is HD mapping with a human at the wheel.
4d ago
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China AI Regulation
China's Draft Law Puts the Ticket on Carmakers, But Only In First Reading
A revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law adds a chapter on autonomous vehicles. Two things it does not do are the two things the headlines said it does.
5d ago
AI Chips
Waymo's Hot Chips Slides Say 160 TOPS, Not 1,000+
Four days of coverage said Waymo had built an Nvidia-class driving chip in-house. The engineering disclosure describes something smaller, cheaper and considerably more interesting.
5d ago
AI Chips
US Lab Tests Chinese Lidar, Funded By An Undisclosed Company
"Government lab probes Chinese sensors" implies a government investigation. It is contract research with a private sponsor whose identity is not public.
Aug 22, 2026
AI Safety
Waymo's NHTSA Child-Collision Answers Are Public, But Blacked Out
"Hands over documents" reads as disclosure. Handing material to a regulator and disclosing it to the public are different events, and only the first one happened.
Aug 22, 2026
AI Agents
California Cleared Waymo to Charge for Driverless Rides in 18 Counties
The CPUC approved the expansion effective the same day, opening Sacramento and San Diego. It is a permission, not a launch — and the fleet size appears nowhere.
Aug 16, 2026
AI Agents
Uber Is Putting 2,000 Chinese Robotaxis on European Streets
Pony.ai supplies the driving stack, Uber the demand, local partners the operations. Zagreb is first; four more cities are unnamed.
Aug 14, 2026
AI Agents
Uber Pledged Over $10bn to Robotaxis on a Day Its Guidance Missed.
Second-quarter bookings grew 24% and the third-quarter outlook came in below estimates. The autonomous commitment was announced into that gap, with cities promised and a breakdown withheld.
Aug 6, 2026
AI Agents
Zoox Starts Charging on 10 August, Under A 2,500-Vehicle Exemption
The first US company to take money for rides in a vehicle with no steering wheel is doing it in Las Vegas only. San Francisco and Austin stay free, because California requires two more permits.
Aug 6, 2026
Google AI
Waymo Opened Dallas to Everyone, But Freeways and Airport Stay Testing
The waitlist came down six months after the February launch, with nearly 150,000 riders admitted from the interest list in between. The service area did not necessarily grow, and two of the routes people most want are not open.
Aug 4, 2026
US AI Regulation
The First US Exemption for a Driverless Passenger Car Also Lets a Human Drive It by Remote
NHTSA freed Zoox from parts of eight federal safety standards. The 2,500-vehicle cap everyone is quoting is the statutory maximum, not a Zoox-specific award.
Jul 31, 2026
Google AI
Waymo Is Back on the Freeway After Recalling 4,000 Robotaxis
Freeway driving resumes in Phoenix, then Los Angeles and the Bay Area — two months after a June recall covering roughly 4,000 vehicles, the company's sixth, over at least 13 drives into closed construction zones.
Jul 30, 2026
Google AI
Waymo Tells Uber It Will Run Its Own App in Austin and Atlanta
The exclusivity that made Uber the only way to hail a Waymo in two major markets is ending, and the Financial Times reports Waymo has discussed ending the partnership altogether.
Jul 25, 2026
AI Safety
Waymo Has 68% Fewer Reportable Crashes Than Humans — Except in Austin, Where It Has More
The first independent study of driverless safety compares 50 million Waymo miles against 222 billion human ones. Its co-headline is that nobody can properly check this work.
Jul 24, 2026
AI Agents
Tesla Robotaxi Lands in Miami With No Safety Monitor From Day One
Tesla's first market outside Texas and California skips the supervised phase entirely — a bet on camera-only autonomy in a city Waymo has served since January, where summer rain is the real test.
Jul 7, 2026
