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Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods
Waymo has now paused service in four cities because its robotaxis are struggling to deal with heavy rain and flooded…
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Waymo halts freeway rides after robotaxis struggle in construction zones
Waymo has suspended robotaxi service on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami as it works to improve…
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Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to…
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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them
Potholes are a pesky problem — just ask scooter company Lime, which listed them as an official risk to its…
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Uber partner Avride is under investigation for self-driving crashes
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company that has partnered with Uber,…
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Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch
Nuro has been granted a permit to begin driverless testing of Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with its autonomous tech on…
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Uber taps Hertz to clean, charge, and fix its Lucid Motors robotaxis
Uber’s forthcoming luxury robotaxi service with Lucid Motors and Nuro is getting a fourth partner: Hertz. The companies announced Thursday…
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Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends in with an acquisition by Caterpillar
Monarch Tractor’s assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to pivot to a software services business, according…
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A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles…
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Volkswagen begins testing its self-driving microbuses in Los Angeles ahead of launch with Uber
Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have started testing autonomous microbuses in Los Angeles, the companies announced Wednesday, the latest…
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Waymo’s skyrocketing ridership in one chart
Waymo is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across 10 U.S. cities, the company shared in a post…
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Who’s driving Waymo’s self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police.
Last August, a fire ripped through 10 acres of grass on either side of California’s I-280 near Redwood City. Traffic…
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