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Vingroup’s Green SM brings 500 VinFast EV taxis to Los Angeles

Green SM, a ride-hailing firm owned by Vietnam’s Vingroup, has launched an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles. It starts with 500 VinFast VF 8 SUVs and full-time drivers. The US is its ninth market, and the launch puts more cars from sister company VinFast on US roads. Green SM, a Vietnamese ride-hailing company, has […]

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Britain built a legal route to driverless taxis in May. London’s first robotaxi service did not use it.

Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in a statement as the UK’s first autonomous ride-hailing service. Every car has a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver on board. Olivia Solon rode one on a wet morning this week and summarised the experience for Bloomberg as autonomous rides with hands still […]

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Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone

Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber says it is not a live product and that its only teen offering remains 13 to 17. Uber is […]

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Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules

Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […]

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Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.

For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more than 230 million cars, while pointedly leaving the driving business to everyone else. On 16 June, it said it would start doing the driving itself. The Jerusalem company announced plans to launch its […]

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Uber opens a London waitlist for Wayve robotaxis as the UK’s driverless race kicks off

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 Wayve, the London-based self-driving startup, under a partnership in which Uber […]

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Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system

The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart of the robotaxi industry. The vehicles driving themselves to pick up passengers […]

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