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Kodiak AI has named the 219-mile Dallas-Houston I-45 corridor as its first driverless long-haul lane, with unsupervised service planned by year end after consistent intervention-free test deliveries.
Mobileye says vehicles running its Mobileye Drive system account for more than 60 percent of Germany's valid Level 4 testing permits, spread across three vehicle platforms and several mobility service models.
NHTSA has opened Preliminary Evaluation PE26007 into comma.ai devices and openpilot software after five crashes into stopped or slow-moving in-lane vehicles killed three people and injured 11 others.
WeRide has been named to Fortune's 2026 Change the World list for a third time, as the company reports a 3,400-vehicle fleet across 13 countries and 73% first-half revenue growth.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions reports more than 3 million metric tons of material hauled autonomously across European mining and quarrying sites, led by Brønnøy Kalk in Norway and Boliden Garpenberg in Sweden.
Aurora outlined a 2030 target of more than 30,000 driverless trucks at its Analyst and Investor Day, alongside a 200-truck year-end fleet, a 500-truck Hirschbach plan, and cheaper second-generation hardware.
Waymo's new transit rewards program issues $2.85 in Waymo Cash to Bay Area riders who pair a Waymo trip with public transit within two hours, alongside a 40-space Caltrain parking lease.
Wayve and Mercedes-Benz have signed a definitive production agreement to integrate the Wayve AI Driver into future Mercedes-Benz vehicles, enabling urban and highway point-to-point driving assistance starting within the next two years.
Einride is collaborating with NVIDIA to build the next generation of its Einride Driver on the DRIVE Hyperion platform, adapting the Level 4 architecture for heavy-duty trucks across its freight network.
Waymo will bring its fully autonomous, all-electric ride-hailing service to Singapore in 2028, partnering with the Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority. Jaguar I-PACE vehicles arrive in the coming months.
NHTSA has opened Audit Query AQ26003 to evaluate whether Avride's crash reports under Standing General Order 2021-01 were complete and accurate, after police reports for six cited incidents indicated potential injuries.
AUMOVIO closes its first year as an independent company with new autonomous mobility customers for its computing, radar, and telematics units, head-up display awards, and a $110 million Texas radar plant expansion.
HL Klemove and Lenovo have signed a three-phase partnership to co-develop high-performance AI computing solutions for vehicles, with HL Klemove leading OEM sales and mass production and Lenovo supplying controller design.
Lucid and Bolt will co-develop an SAE Level 4 vehicle on Lucid's Midsize platform, with Bolt targeting at least 25,000 autonomous Lucid vehicles across European cities and 100,000 by 2035.
Waymo has enlisted Allianz Partners to build insurance, digital claims and safety-research infrastructure for its European robotaxi expansion, starting with London and Munich, as it scales beyond 500,000 weekly U.S. paid trips.
ALVEST Group has launched TLD Robotics, merging EasyMile, TractEasy and TLD's driverless operations into one autonomous GSE company with 35+ sites, 10 countries and 50,000+ completed missions.
May Mobility will go public through a business combination with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., implying a $1.4 billion enterprise value and up to $337 million in gross proceeds ahead of a Nasdaq listing as MAY.
GAC AION has launched the 2027 AION i60, a five-seat BEV and REEV SUV running WeRide WRD 3.0, moving the eight-time competition-winning L2++ ADAS into mass production.
Waymo has opened fully autonomous rides to its first public riders in Las Vegas, covering the Strip from Boulder Junction to Sahara Avenue with a majority-Ojai fleet on the sixth-generation Waymo Driver.
Einride and Lidl in Germany have put a cab-less SAE Level 4 autonomous truck into daily operations on a public road, running warehouse-to-store deliveries with no driver on board under a first-of-its-kind KBA permit.