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Houston and San Diego were reported as robotaxi expansion on the same day Waymo opened three cities to paying riders. What arrives in Zoox's new cities is retrofitted SUVs with human safety drivers, building maps.
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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.
Aug 26, 2026
Three permits, unanimously approved, covering Clark County over the next twelve months. Tesla holds the largest allowance and the least deployed experience.
Aug 21, 2026
After a decade of saying nothing about its compute, Waymo described the architecture — and named seven silicon partners, including the one that co-designed the chip.
Aug 21, 2026
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
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
Baidu's Apollo Go and Lyft-owned Freenow put dozens of vehicles on the road in the borough of Brent. Every one of them has a human safety operator behind the wheel.
Jul 28, 2026
CaoCao has started testing robotaxis with nobody behind the wheel on public streets in Binjiang district, with a remote-monitoring platform watching every vehicle.
Jul 27, 2026
A sedan struck a woman pushing a cart on Venice Boulevard, then crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the robotaxi. Most of the headlines put the robotaxi in the wrong role.
Jul 27, 2026
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
Bloomberg reports regulators are issuing licenses again in select cities after completing a nationwide safety review — with Momenta first through the gate and Baidu's Apollo Go back on Wuhan roads.
Jul 23, 2026
Revenue jumped 26% but margins buckled; Musk says robotaxi miles are compounding over 10% a week, while meaningful autonomy revenue slips to 2027 and the first Optimus lines rise at Fremont.
Jul 23, 2026
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
