self-driving

Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also the clearest sign yet of how Uber intends to fight […]

Rivian said Tuesday it laid off hundreds of workers, less than 2% of its workforce, as the electric vehicle maker continues trying to narrow losses that have defined its existence as a public company. The cuts affect teams in the service and customer segments, according to a company spokesperson. Rivian had 15,232 employees across North […]

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 […]

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will ship supervised point-to-point self-driving on all of its second-generation vehicles and the R2 later this year, describing the capability as “very similar to Tesla’s FSD.” Speaking at the Masters of Scale event in Anaheim on Thursday, Scaringe laid out a three-stage autonomy roadmap: supervised point-to-point driving in […]

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 are investigating. No injuries were reported. There were no indications of impairment. The driver […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]