
Waymo Opens Public Rides: Denver, San Diego, Tampa
Waymo opened public robotaxi service in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on September 1, bringing to 14 the number of cities where the company carries fully autonomous public riders.

Waymo opened public robotaxi service in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on September 1, bringing to 14 the number of cities where the company carries fully autonomous public riders.

Renesas Electronics has joined the Autoware Foundation at its highest membership tier, bringing the open-source end-to-end AI driving stack to R-Car SoC platforms for L2 ADAS through driverless L4 robotaxis.

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition will deploy thousands of autonomous trucks across Saudi logistics corridors by 2030, with Applied Intuition's Self-Driving System and Vehicle OS forming the technology foundation for the national-scale program.

Nissan and Honda have signed a joint development agreement to standardize core ECUs, the in-vehicle operating system, middleware, and vehicle control software for next-generation SDVs, targeting application from fiscal year 2029.

DiDi Autonomous Driving has started fully driverless service trials with the Robotaxi R2, a purpose-built Level 4 vehicle with 33 sensors, now bookable in Beijing and Guangzhou demonstration areas.

CaoCao reported first-half 2026 total revenue of RMB10.3 billion, up 9.0%, with 140 second-generation Robotaxi vehicles deployed and Hong Kong and the UAE named as its first overseas markets.

WeRide will join the HKEX Tech 100 Index effective September 14, 2026, following Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's September quarterly review, the first rebalancing under the exchange's enhanced selection methodology.

Momenta and XHEART have selected QNX OS for Safety for an autonomous driving platform certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D, combining full-stack software, the XHEART X7 SoC, and QNX SDP 8.0.

Waymo has published ten AI lessons drawn from more than 200 million fully autonomous miles, covering multimodal sensing, HD maps as priors, fewer foundation models, and an independent onboard validation layer.

Nevada regulators lifted Tesla Robotaxi's ten-vehicle interim cap to 5,000 for Clark County, while Tesla's own Cybercab chief engineer told the Authority the company won't come close to that number.

Avride has surpassed 100,000 autonomous rides on Uber, adding to more than 1.5 million autonomous miles driven and a delivery robot network now operating across six U.S. cities.

GUSS Automation, a John Deere subsidiary, plans to integrate Ouster's Rev8 OS0 digital lidar into its next-generation autonomous orchard machines, with one operator supervising up to eight units simultaneously.

BMW is making an expanded active safety suite standard across Neue Klasse model series, adding an exit warning that delays door opening and emergency steering intervention, managed by a new central computer.

Avride has recalled automated driving system software on 223 test vehicles over a lateral-maneuver defect, with remedy updates completed in April 2026 following NHTSA Preliminary Evaluation PE26003.

Bot Auto will use only U.S.-based remote assistants across its autonomous trucking operations, a non-driving role that handles first responder communication and limited vehicle functions during incident response.

Volvo Cars is adding four new Connected Safety hazard alerts to the EX60, EX90 and ES90, covering large animals, vulnerable road users, roadwork and accidents ahead via a software update.

The Aistaland GT7 intelligent shooting brake has won a Platinum A' Design Award in the car category, recognized for an L3 autonomous architecture, LiDAR and DTOF perception, and 360-degree status signaling.

Waymo is laying the groundwork for fully autonomous ride-hailing in Munich, starting with manual driving and high-definition mapping, and aims to open commercial service to the public by late 2027.

Gatik has raised $200 million in a Series D round led by QIA and Koch Disruptive Technologies, funding expansion of its driverless regional freight operations across North America.

CARIZON's HS8 Level 2++ driver assistance system enters series production in China, with the AI-based stack planned for seven Volkswagen Group new energy vehicle models this year.