Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! TechCrunch covered a couple of stories this week that illustrate the countervailing forces at play
Waymo is slowly adding highway routes to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving on these high-speed roads due to the behavior of its robotaxis near construction zones. Waymo announced Wednesday in a publish in X that would gradually add highway routes, starting with Phoenix, the company’s first driverless transportation
Waymo and other robotaxi operators face increased scrutiny (and possible new federal requirements) over how their autonomous vehicles interact with emergency services, a regulatory risk that is increasingly difficult for the industry to ignore. Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) is the latest lawmaker to pressure the industry with a bill that would direct federal regulators to
Chinese tech giant Baidu has begun testing autonomous vehicles in London as part of its partnership with Lyft and Freenow, the German taxi and multi-mobility app that Lyft now owns. Baidu is the latest in a series of companies trialling self-driving technology in the UK ahead of commercial robotaxi deployments. The trial, which began Tuesday
Tesla’s fledgling “Robotaxi” network drove fewer miles for paying customers in the second quarter than in the first, according to a chart the company released Wednesday. The quarter-over-quarter decline runs counter to Tesla’s rhetoric and actions over the past year. Tesla has staked much of its future on the idea of a massive, low-cost, cash-generating
Tesla has brought an unspecified number of its unattended Model Y SUVs to Orlando and Tampa, just one day before the company’s scheduled second-quarter earnings call. This is the third Florida city where Tesla is testing its fledgling robotaxi service, following a small launch in Miami a few weeks ago. The two new cities appear
