Taxis and Ride Sharing

Zoox is set to begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Austin, Texas, and Miami, Florida.…

Cruise resumed operations in Phoenix, AZ in April of 2024, and as of June 3,…

Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez…

Waymo is set to offer its fully autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One, to the public…

The 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.

The 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.

Forecasters 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.

According 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.

This 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.

Google’s sibling Waymo is focusing on robo-taxis instead of autonomous trucking.