Love them or hate them, but robotaxis have certainly been making headlines in 2024. And beyond the glamorous, sci-fi-inspired marketing around Tesla’s recently unveiled Cybercab robotaxi, safety has remained, in one way or another, a recurring theme. Earlier this year, a survey revealed a majority of the U.S. public, or 68%, brought up safety concerns … Read more
The Porsche Design Tower in Miami, built in 2014, is one of 35 luxury beachfront properties along the coast that a recent University of Miami study has found to have sunk by up to three inches into the unstable sandy earth. Three inches might not seem like a lot, but this is much faster than … Read more
Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends / Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends Waymo is taking its robotaxis out of the U.S. for the first time as the company begins expanding testing internationally. A fleet of its autonomous vehicles will be heading first to the busy streets of Tokyo early next year, Waymo announced on Monday. It’ll outsource servicing and management … Read more
The transition team of president-elect Donald Trump is planning to end existing car-crash reporting requirements to safety regulators, according to a Reuters report. The report cites a document obtained by Reuters which lays out the transition team’s 100-day strategy for automotive policy. In the document, the team says the crash-reporting requirement leads to “excessive” data … Read more
Waymo has been testing its driverless cars in Miami intermittently for the last five years, but now it’s making serious moves to launch a robotaxi service there. The Alphabet-owned company revealed on Thursday that it’ll start testing its Jaguar I-PACE autonomous cars on the streets of the city early next year, with the aim of … Read more
Tesla “has been very clear the future is autonomous,” CEO Elon Musk said in October, shortly after unveiling the Cybercab, Tesla’s self-driving robotaxi. It now seems that Musk, who was recently nominated to lead a newly-created “Department of Government Efficiency,” is sharing his crystal ball with the incoming Trump administration. The Trump transition team plans … Read more
California seems eager to reassert itself, not only as one of the largest economies in the world, but one where EVs will continue to thrive. Governor Gavin Newsom has announced California will seek to revive state-tax rebates for electric vehicles should the incoming Trump administration carry out its plans to end the existing $7,500 federal … Read more
After dealing with things like arrests over false complaints of rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in … Read more
Uber Technologies plans to invest in Pony AI’s US initial public offering (IPO), which is expected to be priced next week after being upsized by the autonomous driving firm, people familiar with the matter said. San Francisco-based Uber is seeking to buy more than US$10 million of shares in Pony AI’s IPO, the people said, … Read more
The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), a trade group whose members include the likes of Tesla, Waymo, Rivian, and Uber, is coming out in support of tax incentives for both the production and the sale of electric vehicles (EVs). Domestic manufacturers of EVs and of their components, such as batteries, have received tax incentives which … Read more
