Tesla is "cheap and everywhere first, then hope for safe." Waymo is "Safe first, then expand and lower costs." MobilEye ...

General Motors announced major layoffs at Cruise, its robotaxi venture, as it moves away from robotaxis following an unfortunate event in Las Vegas last year. About 1,000 employees have been put ...

part of a previously announced plan to halt robotaxi service and absorb the operations into its broader business. Several of Cruise’s leaders, including Chief Executive Officer Marc Whitten ...

The automaker is also testing a similar robotaxi service in California. In those rides, a human is behind the wheel and ready to intervene if the self-driving vehicle encounters issues.

Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California's public roads, ...

The move to gut the staff punctuates GM’s rapid retreat from the robotaxi business and strategic shift on autonomy. As recently as late 2024, the company had been planning to take the driver out ...

In Tesla’s 4Q24 Earnings call, which reported sales and profits below expectations, Elon Musk claimed that Tesla would launch an “unsupervised” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas by June of ...

General Motors is laying off roughly half of the employees who remain at its discontinued Cruise robotaxi business. The plans come two months after GM said it would no longer fund Cruise after ...

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The company on Wednesday opened up its interest list so that curious riders can declare their interest in potentially being matched with a Waymo robotaxi, once that partnership launches "soon" in ...

Tesla's first robotaxi service will start in Austin, Texas, in June, according to CEO Elon Musk. The paid service will use Tesla-owned vehicles with the first version of the company's unsupervised ...