Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Waymo on Tuesday announced it is expanding its service to include another 27 square miles of coverage around the San Francisco Bay Area. With… Continue reading Waymo expands its robotaxi service again, this time to parts of Silicon Valley
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Waymo expands its robotaxi service across Silicon Valley
Waymo will start offering robotaxi rides to people in its “Waymo One” early rider program in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, and “parts of Sunnyvale” starting Wednesday, an expansion that will bring its footprint in Silicon Valley to 27 square miles. The Waymo vehicles will be available around-the-clock, and the new territories add to… Continue reading Waymo expands its robotaxi service across Silicon Valley
Waymo is now offering 24/7 robotaxi rides in Silicon Valley
The company is operating in a 27 square-mile service area that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale. The company is operating in a 27 square-mile service area that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale. Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience… Continue reading Waymo is now offering 24/7 robotaxi rides in Silicon Valley
Driverless trucks promise to revolutionise freight transport
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For many years, the most promising potential use for self-driving technology was ride-hailing services in big cities. Tesla and Waymo are locked in fierce competition with Chinese rivals such as BYD and Baidu for the… Continue reading Driverless trucks promise to revolutionise freight transport
SXSW 2025 live coverage: AI takes center stage
Kirsten Korosec What the TechCrunch staff is seeing, hearing, and trying out in Austin SXSW 2025, the annual consumer tech-meets-music-film-culture-and-comedy conference held in Austin, is here — and this is where you can find all of our live updates. SXSW 2025 kicked off Friday and runs through March 13. We’ll have folks on the ground… Continue reading SXSW 2025 live coverage: AI takes center stage
SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive… Continue reading SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
VW’s cheapest EV will have Rivian DNA and who is bidding for Canoo’s assets
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! TechCrunch’s transportation team — well at least myself and senior reporter Rebecca Bellan — are hittin’ the road. Destination: SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and culture… Continue reading VW’s cheapest EV will have Rivian DNA and who is bidding for Canoo’s assets
How Uber’s new product chief is gearing up for robotaxis
Uber executive Sachin Kansal has a reputation for dogfooding — the tactic of using one’s own products and services to root out problems and make improvements. As he ascended Uber’s executive ladder over the past eight years, Kansal ratcheted up 700 trips delivering food or people to their destinations. Lengthy reports, often dozens of pages… Continue reading How Uber’s new product chief is gearing up for robotaxis
Tesla’s EU Sales Drop as Anger Toward Elon Musk Grows
Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged in February, part of a wider slump across Europe that has undercut the company’s share price and highlighted anger at the political activities of Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive. Sales of Tesla cars in Germany, Europe’s largest market for electric vehicles, dove 76 percent in February compared with a… Continue reading Tesla’s EU Sales Drop as Anger Toward Elon Musk Grows
Hyundai pairs up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis
Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride’s… Continue reading Hyundai pairs up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis