Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez…
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Waymo Announces Launch Plans for Autonomous Ride-Hailing Services in Los Angeles and Austin
by IAV Staffby IAV StaffWaymo is set to offer its fully autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One, to the public…
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Education and access the biggest hurdles standing in the way of AV adoption, says Motional
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe autonomous vehicle technology company’s fourth annual Consumer Mobility Report looks at the road to adoption and the hurdles standing in the way of driverless solutions.
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Honda, GM, and Cruise plan Japanese driverless ridehail service in early 2026
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe three companies have entered into an MoU aimed at establishing a JV for providing driverless rides using Cruise Origin vehicles made at Factory ZERO in Michigan, with a vehicle on display for the first time in Japan in Honda’s Japan Mobility Show booth.
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Widespread AV adoption remains at least a decade away, according to S&P Global Mobility
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostForecasters still see long-term adoption in certain segments, with mobility-as-a-service and robotaxis expected to lead the transition to an autonomous vehicle future, while broad deployments of Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving systems will reach at least 31% of new vehicle sales globally by 2035.
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Autonomous vehicles will soon be safer than humans, reports IDTechEx
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostAccording to James Jeffs, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, the rate of autonomous technology improvement demonstrates the potential for them to far exceed human levels of safety in the future.
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SAE releases latest best practice for automated vehicle safety
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThis week’s best practice for developing ADS safety performance thresholds based on human driving behavior follows last month’s publication for continuous monitoring and improvement after deployment, as its Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium accelerates support for AV advancement.
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Waymo driving away from trucking
by Charles Choiby Charles ChoiGoogle’s sibling Waymo is focusing on robo-taxis instead of autonomous trucking.
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Big changes in lidar leaders for cars and robotaxis
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostAccording to Yole Intelligence, Chinese passenger car OEMs and robotaxi technology companies are driving the automotive lidar market, which is expected to grow globally to about $4.5 billion in 2028.
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Volkswagen conducts first autonomous driving tests with passengers in Munich
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostIts Commercial Vehicles unit is using a fleet of self-driving prototypes based on the ID. Buzz on German roads with ridesharing subsidiary MOIA, with simultaneous testing of identical prototypes in North America aimed at external mobility and transport sector companies.