Waymo has opened its next-generation robotaxi to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco — a notable milestone for the Alphabet company as it pushes to expand its fleet with vehicles that are cheaper to build, operate, and maintain. For now, customers in these markets may be matched with the new robotaxi, called
There once was a time when most cars on the road did not have air bags as a standard under federal law. It took until 1998, in fact, for every vehicle on the round to have an airbag as required by federal law — that’s over 100 years after the invention of the first automobile and
Lucid Motors said Tuesday that its “operational reset” will focus on $1.4 billion in cash reductions along with three other “must win” and potential money-making priorities that include robotaxis, its factory in Saudi Arabia, and launching a mid-sized electric vehicle. But that mid-sized vehicle, which is supposed to start at under $50,000, is now delayed
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
