Robotaxis offer great benefit to the disabled, and the option to vastly reduce the cost of paratransit for public agencies

Read more at Forbes.com in Cruise Shows Origin Robotaxi With Wheelchair Ramp; Many Disabled Options Possible

A trip on "The Loneliest Road in America" followed by the backroads of southern Utah s State Route 12 tests the limits of road tripping in an EV far from fast chargers

Analysis of how to judge and regulate the risk of robotaxi deployments and how to deal with Cruise

Read more at Forbes.com in Are Cruise Robotaxis Pushing Too Hard? Or Too Slow?

Around 10pm Thursday evening, a San Francisco Fire Dept. ladder truck T-boned a Cruise robotaxi, making physical the accelerating battle between the SFFD and the robot...

Waymo shows off how well they handled a construction zone that Cruise botched. How should these vehicles perform here?

With costs approaching $1/mile, Cruise (and Waymo) can start experimenting with the real economics of robotaxis

GM s Cruise robotaxi unit, hot on the heels of receiving its permit to charge for rides all day in San Francisco, did not have a good weekend.

The robotaxi companies still haven't resolved differences with San Francisco, and they still aren't speaking the same lanaguage

Waymo announced today that it would shortly begin service in Austin, TX.

Waymo, largely considered the leader in the self-driving space, announced it was pausing its trucking efforts, known as Waymo Via.

Not long after several automakers agreed to switch to using Tesla s NACS charging plug and to have their customers charge at the Tesla Supercharger network, 7 major au...

Elon repeated the claim of huge value in hiring out your car. But a taxi is more a consumable than an asset and the math doesn't work.

Read more at Forbes.com in Elon Musk Outlines How Teslas Will Be Worth Five Times What You Paid. Here s How His Math Is Wrong

The CPUC will ask Waymo and Cruise for the data San Francisco has been keen to get but also give them the ability to promise to fix it

Read more at Forbes.com in California PUC To Quiz Waymo & Cruise About Their Problems With The City Of San Francisco

San Francisco is opposing and questioning the robotaxi services operating on its streets. The companies object and the debate heated up at the oldest self-driving event

Read more at Forbes.com in Waymo And Cruise Push Back In Battle With San Francisco

Right after Ford switched to NACS, GM has joined the party. With the top 3 US EV makers on NACS and CCS left with the foreign makers (and Stellantis which just started doing EVs) CCS is dead. Except for $7B in government subsidies. They ruined the CCS charging network, but maybe if they think about it, we can find a way to get this money to doing things the superior way Tesla did it without subsidies.

Votes were nearly unanimous to reign in autonomous vehicle companies in their birthplace.

Read more at Forbes.com in California Bill Bans Self-Driving Trucks. San Francisco Supervisors Block Waymo. Does Luddism Reign?

Ford Motor company has announced that starting next year, Fords will get access to Tesla's supercharger network via an adapter, and later, new Fords will be made with the Tesla NACS built in.

New rules greatly increase the time until solar panels pay for their cost, making it more important to store the power in batteries or cars, and even sell to neighbors.

Waymo now serves a large contiguous area in Phoenix, and is doing 10,000 rides/week. But it's not a car replacement yet, which it needs to be.

Read more at Forbes.com in Waymo Hits 2 Million No-Driver Miles And Expands Phoenix Robotaxi Zone. Can It Replace Your Car?

Robotaxis are sometimes not acting well when meeting fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. Here's a look at some incidents, what could be done better, and how to manage it. Includes exclusive Waymo's-eye view of police interaction

Read more at Forbes.com in What Should Happen When A Robocar Meets An Emergency Vehicle, To Avoid A Paradox Of Safety?