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Tesla has announced that it is developing a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle, as stated by a Tesla representative during a DC City Council hearing on robotaxi regulations. The company is building the vehicle in Texas, but no timeline has been provided.
Uber is lobbying lawmakers to adopt regulations that would require robotaxi services to operate on hybrid human-robot networks, potentially forcing autonomous vehicle developers like Waymo and Tesla to use Uber's platform instead of their own apps, as seen in a proposed New Jersey bill.
An opinion piece arguing that truly autonomous self-driving cars are not yet achieved, criticizing Tesla's overpromises and highlighting the limitations of current AI systems like large language models.
This paper proposes INTENT, an LSTM framework for predicting vehicle intentions (straight, left turn, right turn) at intersections 2 seconds ahead, achieving 99.71% accuracy on the InD dataset.
A California regulatory delay prevents Waymo from charging for rides in its new Chinese-made Ojai robotaxi, offering free rides until at least September. The delay also blocks Waymo's expansion plans in Northern and Southern California.
NHTSA warns autonomous vehicle developers about robotaxis interfering with first responders, citing a pattern of dangerous incidents and demanding immediate fixes.
Two teenagers used a Waymo robotaxi to conduct a drive-by shooting with toy guns, leading to police involvement and highlighting safety concerns with autonomous vehicle misuse.
Forterra, a US autonomous vehicle builder, has deployed over 100 self-driving ATVs in Ukraine for logistics and casualty evacuation over nine months, marking the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by a US defense tech company.
Elon Musk praises the Tesla AI team for optimizing FSD v14 Lite on the AI3 computer, which has only ~15% of the effective memory bandwidth of AI4, as a user reports significantly smoother performance.
Aseon Labs raised $10M in seed funding to build parking space-sized autonomous pods that can inspect, clean, and charge robotaxis on the spot, aiming to eliminate costly deadhead miles and improve robotaxi profitability.
NVIDIA announces Halos for Robotics, the industry's first full-stack safety system for physical AI, built on over 18,600 engineering years of autonomous vehicle safety development. Agility Robotics is the first to adopt the system for its humanoid robots in industrial environments.
NVIDIA Halos is a full-stack safety system for autonomous vehicles that unifies safety elements across vehicle architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services to ensure safe development and deployment from cloud to car.
Waymo issued a recall for 3,871 robotaxis after incidents where vehicles entered freeway construction zones at highway speed; a software fix is under development and freeway operations are suspended until it is deployed.
This paper proposes a hierarchical Bayesian credibility framework for pricing autonomous vehicle liability insurance under operational design domain (ODD) shift, pooling sparse experience across cities and software versions using a learned ODD-similarity kernel. Demonstrated on Waymo crash data, the method outperforms no-pooling approaches and addresses the prospective ratemaking challenge for autonomous driving systems.
Elon Musk reacts to a post highlighting that Tesla's Robotaxi fleet crashes have been caused by human-driven vehicles rear-ending them.
Waymo introduces a new invite-only membership program called Waymo Premier, offering priority pickups, cash back, and early access to expansions for $29.99 per month.
Waymo announced Waymo Premier, a $29.99/month membership offering priority pickups, cash back, and other perks for frequent riders in select cities.
Waymo plans to offer driverless rides to six North American World Cup venues, aiming to showcase its robotaxi technology to millions of attendees despite recent operational challenges like flooding and highway suspensions.
NVIDIA introduces Halos OS, a safety-certified operating system for robotaxis, emphasizing built-in safety through certified foundations, standardized interfaces, and industry collaborations.
Decart unveils Oasis 3, an interactive world model that generates photorealistic driving environments in real time, available via API. Targeting autonomous vehicle simulation and other physical AI applications, the model leverages Decart's optimization stack for cost efficiency.