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
Sometimes the crowd is not so wise. When Ferrari revealed the Luce, its first electric vehicle, to the public in May, the Internet reacted. And not in a positive way. Critics compared the wedge-shaped Luce to a Nissan Leaf and said Chinese electric vehicles would surpass it and undercut it in price. Even former Ferrari
Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family, bought a 5% stake in Lucid Motors, increasing the Kingdom’s overall ownership of the electric vehicle company. A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released Tuesday shows the billionaire prince recently purchased just over 19 million shares. In
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
Cargo flights typically operate at night and pilots need a place to sleep. Business Insider took a look at the crew rest area and other features of a DHL Boeing 777 freighter at the Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom last week. The bunk beds and rest area give pilots the features they need to