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Lidl and Einride put a driverless truck into daily service in Germany

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Lidl has put Einride’s cab-less Level 4 electric truck into daily service between a logistics centre and a store in Germany, under a first-of-its-kind permit from the federal transport authority. The route appears to be less than a mile, and the permit is national, so it does not travel across European borders. Lidl has put […]

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Waymo opens driverless rides in Las Vegas, its fourth new US city this month

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Waymo has opened fully autonomous rides to the public in Las Vegas, the company said. More than 100,000 people had registered interest after months of mapping the city’s roads. The service area covers nearly 24 miles, from Boulder Junction up the Strip to Sahara Avenue, and from the edge of Spring Valley across to Winchester. […]

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Lawmaker demands federal action after 43 Tesla drivers were filmed asleep at the wheel

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A US congressman has asked federal regulators what they intend to do about Tesla drivers who sleep while Full Self-Driving is switched on, demanding answers from the transportation secretary by 30 September. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who represents an Illinois district, wants to know whether Tesla’s cabin camera still works when a driver wears sunglasses or covers […]

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Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software

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Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Europe, with nobody in the driver’s seat and Uber taking the bookings. The pair want more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, but the only EU-wide approval route for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year […]

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Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars

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WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework for autonomous vehicles. Reuters also reported the permit. AVOMO is the autonomous vehicle division of the Moove Cars […]

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Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski

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Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-driving secrets cost Uber a fortune, and it helped end Travis Kalanick’s time as chief executive. The company is Atoms, Kalanick’s new venture. Rafe Rosner-Uddin reported the arrangement for the Financial Times on Sunday. He cited people familiar with […]

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Zoox asked NHTSA for permission and got it. Tesla certified itself, and now has a federal investigation.

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Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how the company certified a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Amazon’s Zoox petitioned for an exemption and was approved in July; Tesla self-certified and did not petition. The complication is that NHTSA is […]

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

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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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Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads

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Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is the largest financing in the autonomous trucking company’s history. Millennium Management, ARK Invest and Intact Private Capital also took part, and the round brings Gatik’s total to about $500m since it came out of stealth […]

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Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

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Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the […]

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