Before Waymo gets a green light in New Jersey, drivers need enforceable union rights and a seat at the table.
“Every day, thousands of New Jerseyans rely on rideshare drivers to get to work, make appointments, and go about their daily lives.
Despite the essential service that rideshare drivers provide to our communities, many are struggling to make ends meet.
I stand with 32BJ SEIU and rideshare drivers of the App Drivers Union in their demand to create a union for better wages and benefits, better working conditions, and greater respect.”
It also allows an authorized tester to operate a fully autonomous vehicle without a human driver if specified requirements are met.
Sep 11, 2026 · via wrnjradio.com
WATCH | Robotaxis expand across Las Vegas, rideshare drivers worry about what comes next Robotaxis expand across Las Vegas, rideshare drivers worry about what comes next For rideshare drivers, that means autonomous vehicles are beginning to appear at some of the same major destinations they rely on for passengers.
Channel 13 asked whether Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers would maintain the same access they have today, the resort responded: “Yes.”
Podell said he understands why autonomous vehicles appeal to some passengers and why they worry some drivers.
Lyft: Drivers ‘will always be essential’ Lyft is also betting on a future where autonomous vehicles and human drivers operate alongside each other.
‘We’re scared for our families too’ For Briseno, the debate about how quickly autonomous vehicles scale is not just about technology.
Sep 11, 2026 · via ktnv.com
Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged.
Wayve, a British tech firm pioneering autonomous cars, said it would “penalise the UK’s most promising innovators”.
About £27bn a year is brought in by fuel duty, which is projected to disappear with the transition to electric vehicles.
The GMB union, which represents taxi and private hire drivers, said a tax on AVs would not go far enough.
Simon Rush, president of the GMB London region drivers branch, said: “Driverless cars threaten the livelihoods of private hire drivers and the businesses that depend on them.
Sep 11, 2026 · via theguardian.com
Minneapolis leaders are weighing on a new rule that would require self-driving cars to have a “human safety monitor”during operations.
The Minneapolis City Council announced Thursday that it is considering the “Workers Drive Minneapolis” ordinance.
RELATED: Minneapolis council targets self-driving car regulations before Waymo launch The ordinance would require commercial autonomous vehicles such as Waymo, Tesla and Zoox to get a city license to operate in Minneapolis.
Some Minneapolis City Council members said the measure would protect more than 10,000 rideshare drivers, mostly workers of color and immigrant workers.
“Workers Drive Minneapolis is about public safety and protecting immigrant workers from losing their jobs to automation,” said City Council Minority Leader Robin Wonsley.
Sep 10, 2026 · via kstp.com
A version of Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybercabs have hit the streets of New York City, a transportation department official said on Thursday, revealing Tesla is the latest tech giant seeking to enter the country's largest market.
Tesla officially launched the Cybercab — a fully autonomous taxi without a steering wheel — across six different cities in Texas and Florida last week.
The announcement said nothing about New York City.
Unlike the Cybercabs in Texas and Florida, there was a person sitting in the driver's seat, behind a steering wheel.
Kathy Hochul reversed a decision to allow a limited deployment of Waymo cars outside of New York City.
Sep 10, 2026 · via gothamist.com
Verifying that you are not a robot...
Sep 10, 2026 · via caasint.com
Using custom tones, the research team explored how sound could be used to communicate vehicle intent in participant trials.
To study these purpose-built audio tones, pedestrians participated in 200 jaywalking scenarios and 160 crosswalk scenarios.
Pedestrians crossing Klauer said ensuring the safety benefits of automated vehicles extends beyond riders and drivers to pedestrians and is a crucial aspect of their development.
Upon interacting with the vehicle, pedestrians were given methods to communicate a change in their intent to cross.
The crosswalk scenarios, which used audio tones to communicate that the vehicle would wait for the pedestrian, showed more mixed results.
Sep 10, 2026 · via newswise.com
This authorization marks a major regulatory milestone toward the launch of Spain’s first commercial autonomous vehicle service.
The Community of Madrid, with its strong commuting demand and mature ride-hailing ecosystem provide an ideal foundation for autonomous mobility services.
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Sep 10, 2026 · via quiverquant.com
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Sep 10, 2026 · via seekingalpha.com
American Rheinmetall will lead execution in the United States, backed by engineering and production support from Rheinmetall Canada.
The work supports Marine Corps plans to expand autonomous logistics and mobility in expeditionary operations.
“This award represents a significant milestone in our long-standing partnership with the United States Marine Corps,” said Matt Warnick, chief executive of American Rheinmetall.
Earlier work included the fielding of 12 Mission Master systems and integration of the Fieldranger Remote Weapon Station.
American Rheinmetall plans to develop its Maine site into a future U.S. Advanced Land Autonomy Center of Excellence.
Sep 10, 2026 · via defence-industry.eu
The autonomous electric vehicles would be used in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as part of a new pilot scheme outlined in BCP Council's latest transport plan, with a target delivery date of 2031.
They have been described as "tiny fridges on wheels" and are already in operation in several other parts of the UK.
"They have a lot of cameras and means to detect what's happening and they have various safety mechanisms," he said.
Hadley added that the robots would run on the left-hand side of the pavement to make their movements predictable, and that concerns about space and accessibility had been factored into discussions with the operator.
"As I understand it, they will avoid places where it's not safe for them to be," he said.
Sep 10, 2026 · via bbc.com
That's the idea behind A2RL, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League.
It features big wings, a sculpted body, slick tires, and everything you'd expect from a modern, purpose-built formula-style racing car.
The A2RL cars, though, use a different engine, a turbocharged four-cylinder Honda K20C, producing around 500 horsepower.
That event also hosted a man-vs-machine event, with a demo autonomous car facing off against former Formula One driver Daniil Kvyat.
That's a big step backward from the progress shown at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit, where the autonomous cars were just 1.5 seconds slower.
Sep 10, 2026 · via designnews.com
When will I be buying a GM vehicle that is fully self-driving?
One technology GM bought was Cruise.
When we considered investment in internal-combustion-engine and EV vehicles, we recognized that a fleet business is not something we do today.
I’m proud of GM’s safety team and the way it works hand in hand with the broader organization.
We also look at the agenda and ask whether any items in our senior leadership meeting could affect company safety or customer safety.
Sep 10, 2026 · via fortune.com
Is Oregon ready?
There was a bill in the Legislature earlier this year, House Bill 4085, that would have allowed self-driving vehicles on Oregon roads.
Cities wouldn’t be able to set their own rules for self-driving cars.
What do you think should be the rules for self-driving cars in Oregon?
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Sep 10, 2026 · via bendbulletin.com
And like it or not, the type of pedestrian might affect your decision to brake hard, or keep rolling.
The bigger question is how many human drivers decide whether to stop based on whom the pedestrian is.
Previous research, for instance, has found that many people are less likely to yield for Black pedestrians in the US.
Can Autonomous Cars Be Better Than Humans If Humans Are The Teachers?
The researchers focused on four AI models for LLM testing and four models for VLM tests, and they learned that all of them can inherit human biases in autonomous driving.
Sep 9, 2026 · via carbuzz.com
But it wasn’t until middle school, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that she started working on her own projects and taking computer science courses on the online learning platform Coursera.
“Everybody has something that feels like magic to them, something that lets them do what shouldn’t be possible, and that’s what computer science is for me,” she said.
Research on Making Self-Driving Cars Safer Now a rising second-year computer science student at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, Markova conducts research at the UCLA Mobility Lab, which is directed by Jiaqi Ma, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and computer science at UCLA Samueli.
Markova is also a reinforcement learning fellow with AI Safety at UCLA, a student research club for creating safe and robust AI systems.
For Markova, projects like Bruin Bet also reinforce what first drew her to building things: the satisfaction of turning an idea into something real.
Sep 9, 2026 · via samueli.ucla.edu
Washington DC has selected AIWaysion to deploy roadside sensing technology that will independently monitor how autonomous vehicles (AVs) behave alongside human-driven traffic.
The company, working with Parsons Corporation, will install its Mobile Unit for Sensing Traffic at two busy intersections from January.
The system will use computer vision to detect and track autonomous vehicles, generate detailed trajectory data and analyse their movements through mixed urban traffic.
Stephanie Dock, Autonomous Vehicles Programme Manager at the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), told Cities Today that AIWaysion was selected following an assessment by a panel of internal and external exper...
Sep 9, 2026 · via cities-today.com
This week, Lyft riders in Nashville, Tennessee, who request a ride on the app might get matched with a new driver: a robot.
Lyft, like its competitor Uber, insists that its platform will be a “hybrid network” for a long while yet, as human drivers work alongside robot ones.
Of the 72 people who work at this Nashville depot, half of them are former Lyft drivers, the company says.
One of those former drivers, Jonathan Baines, started picking up Lyft riders in 2016 to help support himself as he worked as singer-songwriter.
Bird says having Waymos on the Lyft platform will give riders more choice, which is a good thing.
Sep 9, 2026 · via wired.com
Gold-colored robotaxis developed by Tesla have been spotted driving on roads in Fairfax County, specifically in the Tysons area.
The self-driving vehicles appear to be collecting data on local roads and traffic.
Steering-wheel-free robotaxis make debut in Texas Tuss’s Cybercab sighting coincided with Tesla introducing self-driving robotaxis with no steering wheel or brake pedals in Austin, Texas.
Tesla trails self-driving taxi leader Waymo in the number of cabs deployed and trips completed.
Austin has had a self-driving Tesla “robotaxi” service since June last year, but those cars are equipped with steering wheels and brake pedals.
Sep 9, 2026 · via ffxnow.com
Autonomous cars are already testing the roads in Minneapolis, but the city may soon bar them from operating without a driver.
The company Waymo is currently testing its automated cars in Minneapolis.
But the company is looking to scale up to eventually offer rides without drivers in the cars.
The company, and supporters of automated vehicles, point to some studies that indicate the cars are safer than traditional vehicles with drivers.
Under the proposed Minneapolis ordinance, a driver would need to be in the car and paid minimum wage.
Sep 9, 2026 · via mprnews.org