So far, driverless Waymos have been in commercial robotaxi service in and southwest of San Francisco, but now sightings of … More
Category: Robotaxi
Technology Overview For Robotaxi Fleets
The increasing range of robotaxi fleets shows how mature this technology has become. It is also interesting to understand which … More
Tesla Applies for California Robotaxi Fleet License
For years, the California DMV has published annual Disengangement Reports (my annual analyses can be found here: 2015, 2016, 2017, … More
Waymo Now Completes 200,000 Paid and Driverless Rides Per Week
Waymo’s expansion is unstoppable. Nine months ago, the number of paid, driverless rides with the robotaxis in the USA was … More
Zoox Ride in San Francisco
Nothing says more about today’s San Francisco than the fact that when I crossed the street to the company entrance … More
Cruise Sends Farewells
A few weeks after the parent company GM announced that it would discontinue its Cruise self-driving division, Cruise’s farewell e-mail … More
Waymo Begins Driverless Test Drives in Las Vegas, San Diego, Washington D.C. and Atlanta
After Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, as well as announcing the launch of its robotaxi service in Tokyo, … More
Waymo Vandalized in LA
With the increasing number of robotaxis, cases of vandalism are also on the rise. In the most recent case, a … More
Tesla’s Cleaning Robot for the Cybercab
At the We, Robot event in the fall of 2024, a shot was also briefly shown in which a robotic … More
First Ride With The “Zooxie”
When Zoox first popped up on my radar in 2016, as the 12th license holder of a test license in … More