Transportation & logistics
Self-driving vehicles, smarter shipping and how goods move — the wins, and the jobs watching closely.
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4 min readMixedNevada clears Tesla, Waymo and Uber to run up to 8,000 robotaxis in Las VegasRegulators approved paid, driverless robotaxi service across Clark County, but even the companies admit they won't hit those numbers this year.4 min readMixedDriverless Tesla robotaxi stops at barriers, then pushes through anywayWeeks after Tesla called its robotaxi program's safety record "impeccable," an unsupervised Model Y hesitated at plastic bollards — then rolled straight through them.4 min readMixedTesla asked Nevada for 5,000 robotaxis in Vegas. It got 10.A huge gap between what Tesla requested and what regulators approved shows how far the company's driverless ambitions still are from its actual fleet size.4 min readMixedSelf-driving trucks get a green light in California and a major manufacturer dealCalifornia just let autonomous 18-wheelers onto public roads for testing, while Einride and truck maker DAF struck a deal to build self-driving big rigs at scale.4 min readMixedWaymo can now charge for driverless rides across 18 California countiesCalifornia regulators tripled Waymo's service area to Sacramento, San Diego and most of the Bay Area and LA, just as its safety claims face independent scrutiny.4 min readMixedCalifornia regulators clear Waymo to triple its robotaxi service areaThe CPUC approved driverless rides across 18 counties, from Sacramento and San Diego to wine country — but Waymo says the actual rollout will be slow.4 min readMixedTesla's driverless Cybercab is finally rolling — with a satellite dish built inMore than a year after its flashy reveal, Tesla's steering-wheel-free robotaxi is in production in Texas, and the latest units carry a hidden Starlink antenna to keep them connected.3 min readMixedWaymo robotaxis stalled in traffic — and drove over exploding fireworks — on July 4thAs Waymo's fleet nears 4,000 cars, a chaotic San Francisco fireworks night shows how rare "edge cases" scale up with growth.4 min readMixedRobotaxi fleets are scaling fast — and running into more rare, dangerous momentsA fatal Dallas crash involving a Waymo and a Las Vegas Zoox that drove into a fire scene show how growth is exposing driverless cars' hardest edge cases.4 min readMixedPedestrian killed after SUV throws him into path of driverless Waymo in DallasA man struck by an SUV outside a crosswalk was thrown into the path of an empty self-driving car, which slowed but could not avoid a second hit.4 min readConcerningTesla driver blamed "Full Self-Driving" for speeding — the software is built to do itA Colorado traffic stop exposed a real gap: Tesla's Level 2 system can drive over the speed limit, and Tesla just removed the setting that let owners stop it.3 min readMixedAmazon's Zoox starts charging fares for its driverless shuttle in Las VegasAfter a year of free rides, Zoox will begin charging passengers in Las Vegas on Aug. 10 — its first real test as a paying business, not just a demo.3 min readMixedZoox Wins Federal OK to Start Charging for Driverless Robotaxi RidesNHTSA granted Amazon's Zoox a first-of-its-kind exemption, clearing the last big hurdle to sell paid rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxi.3 min readMixedWaymo drops the waitlist — anyone in Dallas can now hail a robotaxiWaymo's driverless cars are open to all Dallas riders, not just early sign-ups, but the service still skips the airport and pauses when it floods.