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Tesla has 42 robotaxis in Texas. Waymo has 577. The gap is now public record.

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 vehicle operators. Tesla’s fleet is less than one-tenth the size of Waymo’s in the same […]

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The people who trained Tesla’s self-driving AI won’t ride in it

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 ride in a Tesla robotaxi “if you f**king paid me.” “We have all […]

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BYD has built China’s first 4nm driving chip, and it’s putting LiDAR on a $10,000 car

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 consumption per unit of compute in its class, drawing roughly 20% less than comparable semiconductors. The chip has […]

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Waymo’s new Ojai robotaxi is cheaper to build, harder to break, and made in China

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 built on a platform manufactured by Zeekr, the electric vehicle brand owned by China’s Geely, the same conglomerate that […]

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Tesla finally launched FSD in China. Its rivals have been selling self-driving cars there for years.

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 has confirmed FSD availability in the world’s largest EV market. It comes a week […]

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Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods. The software patch didn’t work. Five cities are now shut down.

Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five US cities on 21 May after a software patch it pushed to its entire 3,791-vehicle fleet less than two weeks earlier failed to prevent another autonomous vehicle from driving into standing water. An unoccupied Waymo robotaxi got stuck on a flooded street in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday evening during […]

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the Netherlands became the first. Greece and Belgium are expected to follow shortly. The Lithuanian transport safety administration adopted the Dutch RDW’s prior certification rather than running […]

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Google DeepMind plugs Street View into its world model, and you can explore simulated cities today

Google DeepMind has connected its Project Genie world model to 20 years of Street View imagery, allowing users to wander through AI-generated simulations of real places. The integration, announced at the Google I/O developer conference on Monday, marks one of the most tangible demonstrations yet of what generative world models can do when paired with […]

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Geely-backed ECARX signs $750 million deal to build purpose-built robotaxis for May Mobility

ECARX, the automotive technology company backed by Geely founder Li Shufu, has signed a strategic framework agreement with May Mobility to supply thousands of autonomy-enabled vehicles for the American robotaxi operator’s commercial fleet. The deal, valued at approximately $750 million, pairs a Chinese-founded hardware supplier with one of the few US robotaxi companies that has […]

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AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in Wayve, completing the silicon side of its autonomous driving stack

The extension to Wayve’s $1.2B Series D gives the London startup coverage across virtually every compute architecture in automotive use today, from chips already in millions of vehicles to the platforms powering the next generation. Robotaxi pilots with Uber are planned for London and Tokyo. Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving software company, has raised a […]

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