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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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.