A Tesla driver in Redmond, Washington, claims the car’s self-driving mode malfunctioned before it swerved into a residential garage door on Monday. The car smashed the door open and ended up lodged inside the garage. Police responded around 11 AM and a…
Elon Musk has called the ability to fall asleep in a Tesla and wake up at your destination the “acid test” for true autonomy. He first described that vision in 2014 and repeated it on Tesla’s Q1 2025 earnings call, saying he was confident it would be a…
Einride, the Swedish electric and autonomous trucking startup, began trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday through a merger with blank-check firm Legato Merger Corp III. The deal values the company at approximately $1.35 billion pre-money, down from the $…
Lucid has begun rolling out UX 3.6, an over-the-air software update that adds hands-free highway driving to the Gravity SUV. The update is available now in the United States and Canada, but only for vehicles equipped with DreamDrive Pro 2, an optional …
London’s robotaxi era is starting with a sign-up form. Uber has opened a waitlist for Londoners who want to ride in a self-driving car, the clearest sign yet that driverless taxis are about to reach the capital’s streets. The rides will be powered by W…
Tesla has 42 autonomous vehicles authorised for driverless ridehailing in Texas. Waymo has 577. The figures were published in an online database on 28 May as a new Texas law took effect giving the state greater oversight of commercial driverless vehicl…
Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data labelers and a former self-driving engineer about their views on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode. Seven of the nine data specialists said they would not ride in a Tesla operating on FSD. One said they would not…
BYD has unveiled the Xuanji A3, which it calls China’s first automotive-grade 4-nanometre chip for self-driving vehicles. CEO Wang Chuanfu announced the chip at an event at BYD’s Shenzhen headquarters on 28 May, saying it delivers the lowest power cons…
Waymo has started offering rides to select passengers in its new Ojai robotaxi, the first vehicle purpose-built for autonomous ride-hailing rather than retrofitted from an existing car. The Ojai runs on Waymo’s sixth-generation Driver system and is bui…
Tesla announced on Thursday that its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system is now available in China, listing the country among 10 markets where the technology can be accessed. The announcement on X was short on details and marks the first time Tesla h…