Hirain, Arbe Land Level 3 Imaging Radar Program
Hirain and Arbe have been selected by a major automotive group for a multi-brand Level 3 passenger vehicle program in China, with series-production radar deliveries starting Q4 2027.
Inceptio Passes 1 Billion Km in Autonomous Trucking
Inceptio Technology reports more than 1 billion kilometers of commercial autonomous trucking mileage, 97% highway coverage in China, and a new Freight Physical AI framework spanning model, scenario, and fleet intelligence.
Motional Open-Sources nuReasoning AV Reasoning Dataset
Motional has open-sourced nuReasoning, a 20,000-scenario long-tail driving dataset with 247,000 human-verified reasoning annotations, and launched a companion research challenge with UCLA at ECCV.
Kinetiz Wins A2RL’s First Five-Car Autonomous Race at Imola
UAE team Kinetiz won A2RL's first race outside Abu Dhabi, a 12-lap, five-car autonomous contest at Imola, after technical issues and a collision sidelined Unimore, PoliMOVE and two-time champion TUM.
NHTSA Audit Query Targets Tesla Cybercab FMVSS Certification
NHTSA has opened Audit Query AQ26002 into Tesla's certification of the Cybercab as FMVSS-compliant, the same day Tesla began commercial deployment of the pedal-less, wheel-less vehicles in Austin, Texas.
PlusAI SPAC Merger Values Company at $800 Million
PlusAI will go public through a SPAC merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III at an $800 million pre-money valuation, with up to $300 million in capital targeting a 2027 factory-built autonomous truck launch.
Zoox Expands Robotaxi Testing to Houston, San Diego
Zoox is sending its retrofitted test fleet to Houston and San Diego later this month, bringing its US presence to 12 cities and lining up freeway, fog, heat, and flood validation ahead of robotaxi service.
Wayve, Uber Launch Supervised Autonomous Rides in London
Wayve and Uber have launched supervised autonomous rides in London, the first in the UK, using Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles with the Wayve AI Driver and a TfL-licensed driver on board.
May Mobility Autonomous e-Palette Set for Japan Roads
May Mobility and NTT Mobility plan to put the first autonomous Toyota e-Palette on Japan public roads in 2026, with multi-site deployments and a Level 4 driverless certification target.
ZF Details Software-Defined Commercial Vehicle Roadmap for IAA 2026
ZF will show over-the-air update management, a high-speed Truck Trailer Link and centralized vehicle intelligence at IAA Transportation 2026 as building blocks of the software-defined commercial vehicle.
Bosch Truck ADAS Lineup Adds MPC4 Camera, New Radar
Bosch's MPC4 camera brings on-sensor data fusion and 20× the compute of its predecessor to trucks in 2027, joining a new radar, mirror-integrated driver monitoring, and redundant ServoE steering.
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.
Renesas Joins Autoware Foundation at Highest Tier
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, Applied Intuition Plan Saudi Autonomous Truck Network
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, Honda to Standardize ECUs for Next-Gen SDVs
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 Robotaxi R2 Begins Driverless Service Trials
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 Robotaxi Fleet Hits 140 as Revenue Rises
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 Joins HKEX Tech 100 Index
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 Autonomous Driving Platform Certified to ASIL D
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 Details 10 AI Lessons From 200M Miles
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.